Rupert Snell

Learn to speak, read, write and understand Hindi Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Hindi will help you to: - Communicate naturally in everyday situations. - Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities. - Understand and pronounce Hindi easily with online audio. - Become familiar with Devanagari script. - Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method. - Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners. Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com. Is this course for me? Beginners' Hindi is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Hindi. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app. Where do I go next? Continue learning with Hindi Script Hacking, Hindi Tutor and Teach Yourself Complete Hindi. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 85 years.

Autobiographical writing in Hindi is a personal and intimate genre that rewards both the Hindi reader and the learner of the language. Each author paints a unique picture of life in India - and indeed of life in general; many of the fifty-one extracts given in this book are by professional writers, but we also meet painters, poets, patriots, politicians, musicians, academics, a station-master and a prisoner on death row. There is joy here, and much laughter; but also pain, unease, and torment. Reader beware An introduction on language and style begins the book, frequently referencing the original texts that follow; each Hindi excerpt has a two-page introduction in English and a detailed facing-page glossary-cum-commentary for those who need it.

The Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas, begun in 1574 CE, is the most widely known and best loved devotional text in the whole of the north Indian vernacular tradition. Still widely read today-typically with the help of modern commentaries-it is also the subject of public performance styles that have brought it to the widest possible audiences. A source of inspiration and comfort to countless millions over the centuries, the Mānas stands as the classic exemplar of the Ramayana tradition for speakers of Hindi and its dialects. The book in your hand introduces Tulsi's Awadhi masterpiece to readers who are already at home in modern standard Hindi.