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Hindi Praveshika Beginners Hindi: writing and conversation
You are now beginning what should be a very rewarding study of the Hindi
language. Unlike the other major Asian languages, Hindi can be learned with little more
effort than required for many European languages. The major reason for this ease of
learning is the writing system, which is ideally suited for Hindi and almost perfectly
represents the sound system of the language. You can learn to write in Hindi in just a
few weeks, although complete mastery of the Devanagari script wil take somewhat
longer.
Knowledge of Hindi is the key to the Indian subcontinent and its immense variety
of religions, cultures, and landscapes; Hindi is spoken by almost as many people in
India as all other languages combined, and the Encyclopedia Britannica has listed Hindi
as the most spoken language in the world (after Chinese) with 685 million speakers of
which 413 million speak Hindi as their native language. For activities from tourism to
scholarly research, you will find Hindi in the spoken form, which is very similar to
Urdu, indispensable. Written Hindi is more limited in scope, but learning how to read
and write the Devanagari script is the best way to start learning other Hindi language
skills, and Devanagari is also used for other languages, including Sanskrit, Nepali, and
Marathi. This book has the limited goal of teaching the writing system and beginning
conversation in preparation for a formal course of instruction. Throughout this book a
Roman transcription is used along with Devanagari; after mastering the material in this
book, you should be able to work with standard Hindi textbooks.
As you go through this book, you should do the exercises and then compare your
answers with the keys provided. Two tapes accompany this book and will be very
useful to you in relating the sounds of the language to the Devanagari characters. The
characters are taught in the traditional order with which you need to be familiar when
you use a Hindi-English dictionary later.
Enjoy this trip to proficiency in Hindi, which will take you to the fascinating culture
of South Asia.Asian Studie
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A New Model for Teaching South Asian Languages: The University of Texas Hindi-Urdu Flagship
A Description of the Hindi-Urdu Flagship at U. of Texas with comments on its admission criteria, curriculum, study abroad program, method of assessment, and context.This publication appeared in South Asia Language Pedagogy and Technology (SALPT) was published in 2008 by the South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC) as a space to explore the creation and dissemination of new resources for teaching and research on South Asian languages, primarily via the World Wide Web, and pedagogical support for faculty through digital materials. The South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC) was a collaborative effort funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's International Education and Graduate Programs Service. The Language Resource Center at the University of Chicago was one of fifteen nationwide that exist to improve the capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively. SALRC primarily focused on the needs concerning South Asian language pedagogy in American universities
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First Year Hindi Course Part Two
This book (part 2) is for use in the second semester of a University Hindi course
after completion of the introductory books, ~ Wi/fitJcn/ (Beginners Hindi)
and~ 4/6'i/~Rlcn (First-year Hindi Course) part 1. Four audio cassettes
accompany this text; they include most of the text, answers to the exercises, and
materials from 31 ICfil ~1c:uoft (All-India Radio), mostly short excerpts of news
broadcasts and commercials. Like part 1, this book is also divided into six parts;
each part is introduced by a film song and a conversation taken from
Conversational Hindi-Urdu by Gumperz and Rumery(~ SP:fll~l'1, f~~l,
~ .... ....
'E.~~). At the end there is the script of a cooking videotape (31TS:lf' 1SfFfT a/rtl~l/)
and a summary of the verb forms. At the University of Texas this text is
supplemented by the following materials:
1. 'iff ~!tJJt.t rrr[ ef77r' (New Directions, New People), by F.C. Southworth, S.K.
Gambhir, and Vijay Gambhir, a set of twenty Hindi videotapes accompanied by
scripts. South Asia Center, 811 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305. [Volume I (Episodes 1-10) is used with this book.]
2. Authentic Materials for Developing Reading Comprehension in Hindi and
Listening Comprehension in Hindi--Novice Level, Intermediate Level (with
accompanying videotape) available from the American Council on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 6 Executive Plaza, Yonkers, N.Y. 10701-6801.
[These materials are distributed in loose-leaf form so that teachers can choose
those portions that they wish to use. ]Asian Studie
Recommended from our members
First Year Hindi Course Part Two
This book (part 2) is for use in the second semester of a University Hindi course
after completion of the introductory books, ~ Wi/fitJcn/ (Beginners Hindi)
and~ 4/6'i/~Rlcn (First-year Hindi Course) part 1. Four audio cassettes
accompany this text; they include most of the text, answers to the exercises, and
materials from 31 ICfil ~1c:uoft (All-India Radio), mostly short excerpts of news
broadcasts and commercials. Like part 1, this book is also divided into six parts;
each part is introduced by a film song and a conversation taken from
Conversational Hindi-Urdu by Gumperz and Rumery(~ SP:fll~l'1, f~~l,
~ .... ....
'E.~~). At the end there is the script of a cooking videotape (31TS:lf' 1SfFfT a/rtl~l/)
and a summary of the verb forms. At the University of Texas this text is
supplemented by the following materials:
1. 'iff ~!tJJt.t rrr[ ef77r' (New Directions, New People), by F.C. Southworth, S.K.
Gambhir, and Vijay Gambhir, a set of twenty Hindi videotapes accompanied by
scripts. South Asia Center, 811 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305. [Volume I (Episodes 1-10) is used with this book.]
2. Authentic Materials for Developing Reading Comprehension in Hindi and
Listening Comprehension in Hindi--Novice Level, Intermediate Level (with
accompanying videotape) available from the American Council on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 6 Executive Plaza, Yonkers, N.Y. 10701-6801.
[These materials are distributed in loose-leaf form so that teachers can choose
those portions that they wish to use. ]Asian Studie