Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary [Paperback]

Rupert Snell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071435034 | ISBN-13: 978-0071435031 | Publication Date: May 1, 2004 | Edition: 1

Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary provides a comprehensive vocabulary and a concise grammar section. Idiomatic usage is also covered to create a dictionary that is easy to use.

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About the Author

Rupert Snell

teaches Hindi at the School of Oreiental and African Studies, University of London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (May 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071435034
• ISBN-13: 978-0071435031
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #331,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #16 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Hindi

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46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great supplement to Snell's other Hindi Books, August 29, 2004

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Rose Alford (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary (Paperback)

Snell has put together a dictionary that English speakers can easily use and contains a lot of language that is spoken by most people who speak Hindi or Urdu in India. It does not lean to much to either Persian/Arabic or Sanskrit, but is nicely in the middle. So, for example if you enjoy Bollywood Hindi movies, this dictionary will be very useful for you when you want to find the meaning of certain words you hear in the films.

Hindi can be a fun language to learn because you can pick up a lot just by watching some really fun movies and I think it is the only other lanaguage besides English that gives you an opportunity to learn it through movie watching. What a deal. India is great that way. More movies are made in Bollywood each year than Hollywood, so between this dictionary and Bollywood and either of Snell's other Teach Yourself books, you will be understanding Hindi in no time and then you can impress your friends and family by speaking such a distant langugae like a native. Go for it.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than you think, October 6, 2005

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J. Holiday - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary (Paperback)

I am a third year Hindi Student at UW-Madison and I must say I was skeptical of such a small dictionary, but the one is pretty good. It has sentence examples for most of the verbs and it points out when the structure in Hindi is different from the structure in English so you learn a good bit about usage while using the dictionary as well. It is a small dictionary, but the selection of words is very good.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If only it were bigger!, June 28, 2007

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J. Bengel (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary (Paperback)

My only complaint about this dictionary is that it's not more extensive. My Oxford English-to-Hindi dictionary was clearly designed for Hindi speakers learning English, not the other way around. Not so the Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary. Where multiple translations apply, this dictionary gives not only the translations, but a plentiful supply of usage examples. In the front there is a clear, comprehensive section of the Devanagari script -- including an exhaustive list of consonant conjuncts and a concise grammar reference. The ambitious student could gain an elementary understanding of the language using this book alone -- though I don't recommend it.

If I ran the world and could improve this book in any way I wanted, I would only expand it to include more words. The material that IS there is excellent, I just wish there were more of it. That's the only reason I hold back from giving 5 stars.

Whether you're teaching yourself or getting formal instruction, this is one reference you should NOT be without. And the price should be within any budget.