Practice Makes Perfect Basic Hindi

Bite-sized instruction and hundreds of engaging exercises to help you develop your Hindi script, grammar, vocabulary, and conversation skills

Get a solid foundation in Hindi with Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Hindi. You will learn everything from reading and writing the Devanagari script, to mastering of core vocabulary, basic grammar, and conversational structures.

You will get clear guidance on writing the Hindi script; transliteration for all Hindi text in the first four chapters; and online recordings of key vocabulary and expressions to aid correct pronunciation.

ISBN-13: 9780071784245

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC

Publication Date: 06-11-2012

Pages: 208

Product Dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)

Series: Practice Makes Perfect

Sonia Taneja, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Hindi at the Defense Language Institute. A member of the Hindi curriculum development team, she teaches Hindi classes to active U.S. service men and women. She was previously a lecturer in Hindi at Columbia University and a Hindi Regents Exam Writer for the NY City Department of Education.

Table of Contents

I The Hindi Alphabet
1. Vowels
2. Consonants
3. Writing consonants
4. Writing more consonants
II Hindi Words
5. Diacritic marks
6. Conjunct characters
7. More conjunct characters
III Hindi Sentences
8. Sentence structure
9. Questions and answers
IV The Present Tense
10. Present indefinite
11. Numbers
12. Possessives
V Nouns
13. People
14. Places
15. Around the house
16. Possessives
VI Adjectives
17. Describing things
18. Comparisons
19. Food and drink
VII Postpositions & the Past Tense
20. Postpositions
21. Animals and the senses
22. The past tense
VIII Continuous and the Future Tense
23. Time
24. Continuous tenses
25. Possessives
Answer key
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