Epicurus.com - Teach Yourself Hindi Complete Course Package (Book + 2CDs) (TY: Complete Courses)

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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 401
EAN: 9780071414128
ISBN: 0071414126
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 2
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2003-03-27
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill

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Bestselling language courses now with audio CDs!

From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.

Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
Practical vocabulary
Regular and irregular verb tables
Plenty of practice exercises and answers
Bilingual glossary
The new editions also feature:

Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
Website suggestions to take language study further

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Summary: Awesome
Comment: Book was in perfect condition with absolutely no problem. Price of Book was very well worth it

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Summary: Not Good
Comment: Very difficult. Good only for someone wanting to learn how to spell words.

Sandra

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Summary: Good for learning the language
Comment: First, this book is everything it says it is. The complaints about it seem to stem from the use of the Devanagari script, and its speed of progression.

I suggest you learn Devanagari first, with another book. I suggest the Learn Hindi Script in the same series. Second, you will probably want other resources for learning Hindi, because you can only learn so much from a single book.

If you learn the script, go chapter by chapter (some may take longer than others) and try to get Hindi movies and things to read, you will be quite well off.

The best part is the book, not the CD's. The CD's are "good", but this is not an audio course, and are useful with the book, if used at all.

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Summary: A must for the Hindi speaking aspirint
Comment: First of all let me say to those wanting to learn Hindi:
IT IS NOT HARD TO LEARN. Rest assured.

Snell has a few books out. Beginner's Hindi Script, Beginners Hindi, and Teach Yourself Hindi. There is a method to the madness. For those learning Hindi its a great idea to start out with Hindi script. Its rewarding and very easy to learn. When I first opened the Script book it looked overwhelming (like any new system of writing can seem)but I (and you will) learned fast. Don't waste your time with Beginner's Hindi, its slow and boring and the progress in Teach Yourself Hindi is much more rewarding. Teach Yourself Hindi gives you a solid basis in the first couple lessons and makes you feel comfortable (if not GREAT about yourself) and at how easy it is to learn Hindi (in fact, Snell mentions this in his intro). You progress very fast from lesson 1. He uses vocab from previous lessons, the examples he uses are great and memorization and study of these will motivate you to build your own sentences. I'm a ways along in the book and I can honestly say I could go back to India right now and talk to the friends I've made and we could have a decent conversation. That being said, there are 14 more chapters to go that are jam packed with important lessons. So now for my advice:

Like I said, it isn't hard to learn but I cannot stress the importance of practice. Practice, practice, practice! Learning the vocab in each chapter allows you to draw from vast new pools and gives you the ability to make more and more sentences (and trust me, its a great feeling!)

Despite the fact that there are 18 chapters, fight the feeling to fly through a chapter and think that you've learned everything in that chapter only to move on to the next one. Make sure that you really understand the subjects your're working with, otherwise you're only hurting yourself in the long run.

DO THE REVIEWS! I cannot tell you how helpful they are. You think you understand the subjects in the chapter until you are actually challenged to put that knowledge into play. After doing a few of the problems and refining your knowledge, its then that you say to yourself "aha..I'm getting this".

Don't give up on the first speed bump you come across. I've come across a few, but really you just need to go slow and think it through. You CAN learn it.

While you are studying Teach Yourself Hindi, there are other methods to compliment your study. Get his Hindi Conversation package. Its easy to put on your ipod and take with you and listen to. Repetitive listening will allow you to memorize sentence structure.
Watch Bollywood movies! Alot of them are hilarious and give you a great chance to put your knowledge to use. Also a great chance to pick up on some of the rich, Indian culture.

Anyway, I hope this was helpful. I would recommend Teach Yourself Hindi without fail. Five Stars all the way, baby. Remember the advice I gave you and you can't fail. Theres a world of Hindi speakers out there eagerly waiting to talk to us westerners, so get out there and start talking to them.

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Summary: One of the best books for learning Hindi
Comment: This book is definitely one of the best book for SERIOUS beginners to learn Hindi and certainly one of the best among TY language books. In fact it is used in a number of universities as a 1st year textbook among others. It covers a broad scope of topics, if you can manage to go through the entire book, you will get a solid foundation for further study. If you are a complete beginner without background of any Indic languages and do not want to learn the script, this book is not for you. If you are serious about Hindi, you can use this book with M. Shapiro's Primer of Modern Hindi, which covers more in-depth and technical grammatical explanations, after finishing both Snell and Shapiro, you can then embark on Usha Jain's Intermediate Hindi reader.

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