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| aru-aru Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6485 days ago 244 posts - 331 votes  Speaks: Latvian*, English, Russian | Message 9 of 12 25 March 2011 at 6:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Introductory Hindi Course, Landour Language School
This book has loads of audio, which is great. But as a course for self study, I would not recommend it. It does not have good enough explanations. And, it's a very, how should i put it, formal course, covers huge amount of rather random vocabulary, it drills every single construction, and, for a book that thick, it covers surprisingly little grammar, only the very very basic stuff. Not a conversation oriented course at all. I have a friend who hates it with a passion. You can get better texts elsewhere, especially if, as Slacker says, you have to use it together with a grammar book anyway to "get" it. Audio, that you can get elsewhere. Films, as have been recommended already, music, podcasts and what not. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6257 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 10 of 12 25 March 2011 at 11:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Hindi Resources Good luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Slacker Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 62 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Spanish, English Studies: German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic (classical) Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 12 26 March 2011 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||
Aru-aru, On second thought, you're right, I'd like to amend my comment about "recommending" the Landour book to simply stating that it exists. Not great for self-study, but I used it in a setting with a teacher, and it wasn't terrible -- especially since we augmented it heavily with other sources, but the fact was that it was pretty much the only "textbook" type book out there. It is very formal, doesn't cover the entirety of Hindi Grammar (for which I'd recommend both the previously mentioned McGregor "Outline of Hindi Grammar", and also a book that I enjoyed even more: "Urdu: An Essential Grammar", by Ruth Laila Schmidt. While we're on the topic of Urdu, you might also want to consider "Spoken Urdu: A Beginning Course" by Eugene Glassman. If you're going it alone - go with the TY Hindi, Living Language Hindi, (and maybe Rosetta Stone Hindi, if you can get it for free) I think that it's a shame that when you look at the top 10 languages by speakers: English, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, and German; you're more likely to find between ten and a hundred times as many quality introductory language courses in any of these languages EXCEPT for Hindi/Urdu (and good luck finding a decent intro Bengali book). -Slacker 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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