Hindi: A Complete Course for Beginners Book and 2 Tapes [Paperback]

Rupert Snell (Author), Simon Weightman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Teach Yourself; Book and Cassette edition (May 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844238635
• ISBN-13: 978-0844238630
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,008,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Had it not for this book, I would have never learned Hindi !, February 26, 2000

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Stefano Brizzi (Florence, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hindi: A Complete Course for Beginners Book and 2 Tapes (Paperback)

If you really want to learn Hindi, I recommend you this book! Nothing to do with all the other manual that I've found around, which were unclear and approximate. This one is complete, clear, step by step, and if you come over the initial difficulty of learning devanagari script, it really takes you further on in the practical use of the language. I have learned Hindi most of the time studying it on the train while going to work!

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You could do better, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Hindi: A Complete Course for Beginners Book and 2 Tapes (Paperback)

Though the book was useful, the vocabulary selected for each unit seemed quite random. As vocabulary is essential to language study, I see this as a serious flaw. In traditional language textbooks, each section usually focuses on a specific topic (the colors, the parts of the body, etc). Here, you just get a list of unrelated words. Often, a unifying thread helps the learner master new vocabulary. When there isn't one, such as in the case of this book, the process may become more difficult.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book for intermediate learners, July 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hindi: A Complete Course for Beginners Book and 2 Tapes (Paperback)

This is the best book I've read for learning Hindi. It's clear, thorough, and amazingly systematic. It's a bit difficult for a complete beginner, however, so if you're starting from zero, you might consider doing another course first to work up to this one. Additionally, you might want to get a bit of practice with the Devangari script before launching into this book because you need to have learned it by the end of Unit 5 in order to do the other 13 Units, and the type is kind of small. The cassettes are also good--the native speakers speak clearly, and there's no irrelevant discussion in English.