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Read and Write Hindi Script: A Teach Yourself Guide
By the end of the book, you will be reading and writing Hindi with confidence!
"Read and Write Hindi Scripts" is a step-by-step introduction to the script that will enable you to read Hindi signs, notices, advertisements and headlines. Script is introduced in stages, accompanied with lots of practice. There are plenty of example words and phrases that are seen everywhere in any Hindi-speaking environment so you can familiarize yourself with the most common signs and directions.
"Read and Write Hindi Scripts" is a step-by-step introduction to the script that will enable you to read Hindi signs, notices, advertisements and headlines. Script is introduced in stages, accompanied with lots of practice. There are plenty of example words and phrases that are seen everywhere in any Hindi-speaking environment so you can familiarize yourself with the most common signs and directions.
192 pages, Paperback
Published January 14, 2011
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March 7, 2019
Hm... an OK but not great intro to Devanagari.
One of the aspects that I find annoying is the lack of IPA, which is by no means unique to this book. So far, I haven't found any intro to Hindi - or detailed reference grammars, for that matter - that consistently use IPA to make the phonetic values of the characters extremely clear. Instead it's the "like the 'o' in 'office'" style, which only works if all English speakers have the same vowel in the example word (but we don't).
If it interests you, there's a lot of introductory material on the sound inventory of Hindi and the history of words (which words are inherited, which are loanwords and if so, from which languages), etc. If you just want a basic intro to the script, though, you can safely skip that and go right to the chapters on the consonants and vowels.
My favorite part of this book is that the last section is a collection of handwritten Hindi to help you get acquainted with it, both to learn to write nicely yourself and to recognize other people's writing. More language books should include this!
One of the aspects that I find annoying is the lack of IPA, which is by no means unique to this book. So far, I haven't found any intro to Hindi - or detailed reference grammars, for that matter - that consistently use IPA to make the phonetic values of the characters extremely clear. Instead it's the "like the 'o' in 'office'" style, which only works if all English speakers have the same vowel in the example word (but we don't).
If it interests you, there's a lot of introductory material on the sound inventory of Hindi and the history of words (which words are inherited, which are loanwords and if so, from which languages), etc. If you just want a basic intro to the script, though, you can safely skip that and go right to the chapters on the consonants and vowels.
My favorite part of this book is that the last section is a collection of handwritten Hindi to help you get acquainted with it, both to learn to write nicely yourself and to recognize other people's writing. More language books should include this!
July 8, 2011
This book very clearly presents the Devanagari script. The exercises are excellent practice. It's not limited to the actual writing system; good grammar and historical info is sprinkled throughout.
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