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| exscribere Diglot Senior Member IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5283 days ago 104 posts - 126 votes  Speaks: English*, Danish Studies: Mandarin, French, Korean, Hindi | Message 17 of 19 18 June 2011 at 12:43pm | IP Logged |
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That's frustrating indeed! I'd love to get ahold of them. I'm also curious what school you were at, Jeffers! :)
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4913 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 18 of 19 18 June 2011 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
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The school was Woodstock School, in Mussoorie. Very close to the excellent Landour Language School.
I'll repost the list without using codes: 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.htm l). 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/ . Uses Unicode. Finally, I can't leave out the recent resources by Rupert Snell, author of the TY Hindi series: 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. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5990 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 19 of 19 27 June 2011 at 1:02am | IP Logged |
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The university of pennsylvania links seem to be broken, but I found it again here, apparently at a new URL:
http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/hindi/ Both volume 1 and volume 2 are reachable from there. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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