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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 1 of 7 27 June 2012 at 1:14pm | IP Logged |
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Those of you who are studying Hindi will be pleased to know that the Hindi-Urdu Flagship have begun to release more episodes of Glossaries Alive, after a break of about a year.
The Glossaries Alive are podcasts of about 35-40 minutes, based on the vocabulary of Teach Yourself Hindi, one podcast per chapter. They name and define the vocab from chapter, which is very helpful. But the podcasts take you much further than the chapters, giving new phrases and idioms using the chapter's vocabulary. I don't know of any other language author who has produced so much support material for their textbook, and all offered for free. By the time this is completed it will comprise over 10 hours of audio. 10 persons have voted this message useful | |
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5021 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 7 04 July 2012 at 11:44pm | IP Logged |
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That whole site looks fantastic. In the "upcoming resources" section, I notice they are
developing a "drilling for fluency" program, which sounds like it's going to be a bit like an FSI basic course. If that becomes available I will definitely be giving Hindi a go. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3 of 7 19 November 2012 at 8:20pm | IP Logged |
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Update on this, they just released the 18th and final Glossary last week. So now that
you have a free audio podcast for every chapter of Teach Yourself Hindi you have no excuse to put learning Hindi off! EDIT: oh, and I exaggerated the length of the podcasts. Most of them are 12-20 minutes long, but the last few were 30-40 minutes long. The whole set comprises about 7 hours of listening material. Edited by Jeffers on 19 November 2012 at 8:23pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4431 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 4 of 7 21 November 2012 at 3:38am | IP Logged |
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Thanks a million, you just decided for me one of the textbooks I'll be buying to learn Hindi/Urdu once I'm
proficient in Arabic (3 months from now). I'm making a special trip out of the town I'm in now to Montreal to visit Michel Fortin, a bookstore that sells only language-learning materials (for over 200 different languages!) and I'm stocking up for the first half of 2013 while there, Hindi/Urdu being one of the languages, along with Persian, Turkish and Lithuanian (related to Hindi via Sanskrit, want to find out how true this is), and so on. Hindi is therefore really important to me and I can't wait to begin studying it in earnest. Thanks again! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4451 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 5 of 7 21 November 2012 at 4:07am | IP Logged |
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OT: Mahasiswa, what resources have you used/are using to get you that far in the Egyptian
dialect? Oh, how I wish I had known about that Michel Fortin store when a friend was visiting Toronto. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4431 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 6 of 7 21 November 2012 at 1:58pm | IP Logged |
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I've done the first 30 Pimsleurs now, I listen to Nogoum FM (nogoumfmonline.com) and watch their radio
interviews on Youtube (which is all talk, no interruptions), and two of my resources (Mastering Arabic and Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar, both by Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar) are partially in Egyptian dialect, and I have an Egyptian-dialect proficient tutor (who is also proficient in Syrian and Lebenese dialects, and I believe one or two more, in addition to MSA), and one of my long-time friends is Egyptian, who I went to elementary school with, he also goes to my university and we practice on the bus when we take it together, a 45-minute bus ride across town to where we went to elementary and high school. I try to watch and listen to Egyptian media as much as possible since I want to learn to read and write in MSA but speak and think in Egyptian. So far, it seems to be working. I get compliments on my accent all the time from native speakers. I've studied Arabic since the second week of September. I see my tutor 3 hours every week and try to use my Arabic as often as possible. Otherwise, if I'm caught speaking German or Spanish with somebody, I often find a way to talk about Arabic language, and usually I exemplify dialectal words in Egyptian or pronunciation to show the relation of words and sounds in Spanish, otherwise in German I'm speaking about Arabic in general, like word formation logic (miftah and Schlüssel, being Arabic and German for the English word 'key', the first comes from the root f-t-h 'to open' and the second from schließen 'to close'). Edited by mahasiswa on 21 November 2012 at 2:00pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4451 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 7 of 7 21 November 2012 at 11:18pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks Mahasiswa, the above is very helpful. It seems we're on the same boat I just
started to learn how to write the script, but I want to sound like an Egyptian :) Sorry for the thread hijack! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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