Hugo Language Course: Hindi In Three Months [Paperback]

Mark Allerton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1999 | Series: Hugo

Now learning a foreign language can be enjoyable as well as challenging, and not require a trip back to the classroom. Available in both book-only or book-and-cassette format, these Three-Month Language Courses are outstanding self-study programs designed for the individual seeking to acquire a good working knowledge of a language in a short amount of time. Devoting just over an hour daily to the course, the program provides grammar lessons, contextual conversion drills, relevant word lists, and graded exercises, giving you an immediate and practical grasp of the language. In addition, pronunciation is made easy with Hugo's unique "imitated pronunciation" system, which represents foreign sounds with English syllables. Whether you are a businessman tackling an international account, a student preparing for an adventurous holiday, or simply a lover of new languages, the Three-Month Language Course makes learning easy, satisfying, and more fun than ever before.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Hindi

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT (March 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789444275
• ISBN-13: 978-0789444271
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,902,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars very basic intro for tourists, July 28, 2000

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This review is from: Hugo Language Course: Hindi In Three Months (with Cassettes) (Paperback)

This book would be useful only for someone who just wants to be able to exchange a few phrases with Hindi speakers during a trip to India. Only tourist-oriented situations are presented in the dialogs, and even then the vocabulary and the total amount of material presented is extremely small. The tapes are relatively good because the native speakers read each dialog once at a normal pace, then they read the dialog slowly, line by line, so that the learner can repeat and learn pronounciation. Unfortunately, the tapes also contain a lot of filler in English that becomes annoying after repeated listening, and worse yet, in an effort to "simplify" the grammar, the tapes (and the book) will teach you some sentences that are not entirely grammatically correct.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hindi intro, January 31, 2000

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This review is from: Hugo Language Course: Hindi In Three Months (with Cassettes) (Paperback)

This book isn't for people wanting to learn advanced Hindi and complex Hindi grammar rules. This book is for people who want to learn some quick basic communication skills in Hindi. I found that I could communicate with people in Hindi, at an elmentary level, after studying with this book. This book helps one learn the basic aspects of Hindi.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Starter For Basic Hindi, May 10, 2000

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This review is from: Hugo Language Course: Hindi In Three Months (Paperback)

This book seems to be meant primarily for travelers who need some basic street Hindi to be able to communicate with native speakers easily. The Devanagari alphabet is ignored entirely, and grammar is not emphasised any more than is necessary. What the book does give you is a very solid and basic grounding at basic communication skills. The conversations on the tape are very useful in practical situations such as at the airport, marketplace or so on. But the book doesn't get very in depth, so if you want anything more than a casual introduction to spoken Hindi, you will need additionall resources. but as a starter course, this book can't be beat!