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| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5023 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 19 26 April 2011 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Shantaram, I have read a little about Hindi being a relativly simple language to learn.
I have looked at it a little , and was surprised to see there where many similarities with European languages (for example, with the numbers system). Does one encounter these similarities in other aspects of the language? Also, the script doesnt really look to complicated to learn, perhaps just a little exoctic to one acustomed to the roman alphabet. I would like to start a thread on this topic (I dont know if one already exists?) Which section of the site should I post it in? The specific Hindi section or elsewhere? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5809 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 10 of 19 27 April 2011 at 7:46am | IP Logged | ||
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The script (Devanagari) is very logical, phonetic and (in my opinion) beautiful and exotic.
There's a free interactive tutor here: http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm and a chart here: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hindi.htm The Teach Yourself "Beginner's" and "Complete" Hindi books by Rupert Snell go over the script but his Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi Script is popular: http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Beginners-Hindi-Script/ dp/0071419845 I found this really cool link about a program that uses same language subtitles to increase literacy rates. They have a site at http://www.desilassi.com/ that has Bollywood clips with SLS for free. It didn't render right in Chrome though. Some more great music from A. R. Rahman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7dDF1nTF1s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkpvL48Igk nice concert... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kpjXWNEF0I Great music from Devdas... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9oeBzNBIso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysy_Dh6YBUQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qhkBTGE_Wo Edited by ChiaBrain on 27 April 2011 at 7:51am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Shantaram Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5251 days ago 19 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Hindi, German | Message 11 of 19 05 May 2011 at 8:15am | IP Logged | ||
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dbag, i am new to the site myself so i can't say where to post a new thread.
as far as hindi being similar to other european languages, I would say not so much. the only european languages i could speak on is romance languages anyway. something interesting to note maybe, if you are familiar with the way verbal phrases like, "me gusta," or "me parece," and "me gustan, me parecen," then you will see this type of construction is common in hindi. i'm not so good at putting my thoughts into words.. as far as learning the hindi script, i was completely shocked when i could spell perfectly after 3 days of 10 minutes here 30 minutes there practising. my advice: get your hands on teach yourself beginner's hindi/hindi and read the transliterated hindi word then spell it back in devanagari..easy as pie. goodluck 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| exscribere Diglot Senior Member IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5280 days ago 104 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English*, Danish Studies: Mandarin, French, Korean, Hindi | Message 12 of 19 09 May 2011 at 5:16am | IP Logged | ||
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I will also strongly recommend this site: http://www.ncert.nic.in/NCERTS/textbook/textbook.htm
It's the online copies of textbooks used in Indian schools. You can download copies and then read through them, moving up grade by grade. I go out and buy some other ones at a local shop here, but these are great for learning new vocabulary and using native material to see what, and how, the kids are learning to put things together themselves. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tbone Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4992 days ago 92 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 13 of 19 09 May 2011 at 5:39am | IP Logged | ||
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In addition to Hindi, I notice the NCERT site also has Urdu and Sanskrit courses (or maybe it's books. I can't tell).
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| exscribere Diglot Senior Member IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5280 days ago 104 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English*, Danish Studies: Mandarin, French, Korean, Hindi | Message 14 of 19 09 May 2011 at 8:11am | IP Logged | ||
They're just the books used in the classrooms (ostensibly, anyway). Depending on how advanced you want to go, I imagine you could do a bit with them, but it would definitely require some additional materials! :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 15 of 19 18 June 2011 at 11:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Several years ago I was an ICT teacher in an international school in India. I was always on the lookout for internet based Hindi materials, and compiled a list for staff and students. Here is the full list of what I thought was the best:
Hindi Links for Beginners http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm A script tutor from SOAS (the School of African and Oriental Studies) in London. http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/hindi/swah1002/resources. html This site from Australian National University is full of exercises and animations for the beginner, including animations of how to write and pronounce the letters of the alphabet. My favorite is an exercise with postpositions, in which a mouse flies around the room (http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/hindi/upunder/object.html). http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/lessons.html Door Into Hindi. A fairly complete, beginning to end course. Each lesson is built around a video dialogue. All you really need to learn beginners’ Hindi, but would work great alongside a textbook. It is not quite finished, but will be soon, I am assured. They are also working on a version with Urdu script. Beyond the Basics http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/hindi/stories.html Beginner, intermediate and advanced stories. You can view the stories with pictures, one line at a time, or view entire stories at once. You can hear the stories read one line at a time or hear entire stories at once. Each story has a list of vocabulary (glossary). Click the “Festivals” link at the top to read and hear stories about festivals (more advanced Hindi). (Uses Unicode) http://lrrc3.sas.upenn.edu/hindi/volume1.html Absolutely fantastic and very extensive. This is a collection of graded readings, from the University of Pennsylvania. Besides reading the story, you can hear it in regular and slow audio, or watch it on video (beware of late 80s hair styles!). You can also hear each sentence read separately. Click translation to see a translation beside the text. Some words are clickable for definitions. All together there are ten lessons, totaling about 97 sections of readings. If you click exercises, there are comprehension questions which are good to try. (Requires Xdvng font). http://lrrc3.sas.upenn.edu/hindi/volume2/hindi11-13/volume2. html This is volume 2 of the previous website from UPenn. Another ten lessons, as if the first ten were not enough. I couldn’t find an obvious link to volume 2, so I have included it separately. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/mindex.html This is a project by the University of Michigan. The main readings are divided into post and pre Independence, poetry and prose. These texts have indications of level (3 or 4– they are quite advanced!) There are also shorter dialogs, and monologs with audio files. The site has helps with “advanced constructions”, but I could not get most of the glosses to work. (Requires Xdvng font). Newspapers Online http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/ One of the first presidents of India (does anyone know who?) said that if you want to know the way modern Hindi is spoken, listen to the BBC. Now you can read it. Uses Unicode. http://www.amarujala.com/today/default.asp This is supposedly the most popular Hindi newspaper in print form. It has local news for regions (including Dehra Dun, Tehri, etc.). You will need the au font. Audio News Online Find the days news (link refreshed daily) in hindi (aaj ke din) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/meta/tx/nb/ajkedin1_au_nb.ram and the same in urdu (taaza tariin) at http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/meta/tx/nb/latest_au_nb.ram Literature http://www.premchand.org/ The above I found years ago. More recently, Rupert Snell, author of the TY Hindi series, has been developing excellent resources: http://hindiurduflagship.org/resources/ If you are using his books, the free vocabulary podcasts for each chaper are pure gold (called Glossaries Alive). For more advanced listening, Spoken Thesaurus involves discussion of vocabulary around specific topics such as health. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 16 of 19 18 June 2011 at 11:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Well that was an exercise in frustration... after I put in all the url codes.
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