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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5007 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1 of 6 26 October 2010 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
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I am hoping there are a few Hindi speakers out there. One of my winter projects is to improve my Hindi/Urdu as at the moment I have basic spoken Hindi/Urdu (A1.5 -ish level). I can read Arabic abjad so I thought that I ought to learn the negari script.
So.... If there are any members who have learned the nagari script I would like some pointers to a successful approach - pretty please! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gigantic Newbie United States Joined 5262 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Sanskrit, French | Message 2 of 6 29 October 2010 at 4:26am | IP Logged |
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I don't know if this is going to be helpful since it's pretty specific to the materials I used, but this is how I learned Devanagari. When I took a course in Sanskrit, my teacher told us we had to learn the script for the next class (two days away!). So I did... kind of. I used this pack of flash cards and drilled constantly for 48 hours:
http://www.amazon.com/Sanskrit-Flash-Cards-Nicolai-Bachman/d p/188372502X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1288316887&sr=8-2- fkmr0 (They're out of it at Amazon, but they're available all over the place. Make your own if you can. Although they do have examples of Sanskrit on them, they're really just helpful for learning the script.) So I familiarized myself with the characters, but still had to think about them and couldn't read smoothly. Over the next year or so, this is what I did: We used a text which was in Roman script, but we had a companion book with all of the same exercises in Devanagari. Every night before I did translation, I began by reading the Devanagari in the companion out loud (disregarding the meaning). Then I would write it out in Roman and compare it to the textbook. After that I would take the Roman script in the textbook and write it out in Devanagari to compare to the companion. Then I would proceed to translation. After a few months I could read pretty well without thinking about it, and after a year it felt very natural to read and write in Devanagari. Best of luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5007 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 3 of 6 29 October 2010 at 11:15am | IP Logged |
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Great thanks. I think I've got a good start going, nowhere near a fluent reader yet
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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4966 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 4 of 6 31 October 2010 at 1:02pm | IP Logged |
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I have been learning it... but I don't know it yet.
Well, Try some website teaching it, I have found one, http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Shantaram Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5038 days ago 19 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Hindi, German | Message 5 of 6 24 April 2011 at 10:31am | IP Logged |
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Hey I'm new to the stie so I realize this is quite an old post so I take it you no longer need any advice here. but for those who read this in the future, I would like to offer some advice:
I purchased the Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi set by Rupert Snell. at first i wrote each letter out in a row only a few times. the book has a standard transliteration..whatever..so what i did was look at the roman script of a phrase, take "aapkaa naam kyaa hai," and i would then write out the phrase in devanagari.. you will be surprised how easily it comes if you just go over a few random texts in the book and do this. goodluck 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gareth Groupie United States Joined 5246 days ago 51 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cherokee, French | Message 6 of 6 25 April 2011 at 2:52am | IP Logged |
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Are you looking for something like this?
http://www.ukindia.com/zhin001.htm I hope this helps. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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