Summary:
This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding book.
- You can purchase the book and double CD as a pack (ISBN: 9781444101591)
- The book is also sold separately (ISBN: 9781444101584)
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Is this the right course for me?
Are you looking for a course in Hindi written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language?
Get Started in Hindi will give you the confidence to communicate in Hindi. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The emphasis of the course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Hindi.
By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages: can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
Get Started in Hindi includes:
Chapter 1: Greetings
Saying hello
Who and how people are
This and that; he, she and it
More questions
Chapter 2: Our family
Gender matters
Number
Getting familiar
Getting formal
Chapter 3: In the room
Some more questions
Where? On the table
Case
Chapter 4: Have some tea
Giving orders and making requests
Telling, saying, speaking, asking
Routine events
Chapter 5: What do you want?
Obliques again
What do you like, what do you want?
Availability - 'to get, to find'
Revision!
Chapter 6: What work do you do?
Possession and 'to have'
The Sharma family
You can go
Let me go!
Chapter 7: The past
In the past
Getting specific
A shortcut
Adding emphasis | Chapter 8: What's happening?
Comparisons: bigger and smaller
Continuous tense: '-ing' verbs
Raju is reading 'his own' newspaper
These days, in and out, up and down
Chapter 9: In the future
The future tense
Ifs and maybes
So that, in order that
How long does it take
Chapter 10: What happened?
The past tense
Transitivity
Other perfective tenses
Sit and rest - linking two actions
Chapter 11: It is said that...
A verb with many meanings
Finding the way in Vilaspur<
- The pace and approach make this a course for true beginners
- Over two hours of accompanying listening material available
- Worldwide reputation of author
About the Author(s):
Rupert Snell has been teaching and researching Hindi since the 1970s, firstly at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University, and latterly at the University of Texas, Austin, where he is Associate Director of the Hindi Urdu Flagship.
Readership:
Complete beginners in Hindi.
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