Textbooks and More

Textbooks:

  • Herman Van Olphen. (no date) Beginners Hindi: Writing and Conversation. Paradigm Books.  (resource for learning the script with authentic materials)
  • Joshua Pien and Fauzia Farooqui. (2014) Beginning Hindi: A Complete Course. Georgetown University Press (tasks and activities, 41 chapters in eight units, based on functional themes such as home and family, everyday life, the marketplace, personal responsibilities, and travel; a review for each unit with review activities, tips for increasing fluency, and questions to personalize learning; grammar is integrated with practical uses; English-Hindi and Hindi-English glossary; an appendix of advanced grammar; common idiomatic expressions and proverbs in each unit, a list of Bollywood film songs to go with each unit)
  • Naresh Sharma and Tej Bhatia. (2013). The Routledge Intermediate Hindi Reader. Routledge Modern Language Readers (broad selection of readings for intermediate and advanced learners of Hindi)
  • Richard Delacey and Sudha Joshi. (2009) Elementary Hindi. Tuttle Publishing (3 MP3 audio CDs)
  • Rupert Snell, and Simon Weightman. (2003). Teach Yourself Hindi.  McGraw‐Hill. (Textbook/Reference book, Utilized as a self-teaching grammar reference)
  • R.S. McGregor. (1995). Outline of Hindi Grammar. Oxford University Press (grammar reference)
  • Sheela Verma. (2002). Intermediate Level Hindi. Manohar Publishers.
  • Sonia Taneja. (2012). Practice Makes Perfect Basic Hindi. Practice Makes Perfect Series (includes Bite-sized instruction and hundreds of engaging exercises to develop Hindi script, grammar, vocabulary, and conversation skills)
  • Tej Bhatia. (1996). Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge
  • Usha Jain. (2007) Advanced Hindi Grammar. Institute for South Asian Studies: Berkley (texts and grammar explanations of higher register grammar structures)
  • Usha Jain. (1999). Intermediate Hindi Reader. Institute for South Asian Studies: Berkley (excerpts and texts from folk, epics and authored literary works)
  • Usha Jain. (1995). Introduction to Hindi Grammar. Institute for South Asian Studies: Berkley (includes exercises and drills of basic grammatical structures)
  • Yamuna Kachru and Rajeshwari Pandharipande (2010). Intermediate Hindi: Madhyamik Hindi. Motillal Banarsidass. (reading useful to teach the grammatical points assigned for the intermediate level with a wide range of vocabulary on a variety of topics; detailed glossaries, grammatical explanations) 

Dictionaries:

  • McGregor, R.S. (1997). The Oxford Hindi‐English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, USA. Raker, Joseph W., and Ramashankar Shukla. (2008).  
  • English‐Hindi Hindi‐English Dictionary.  Star Publications. Multimedia (Software, Technology, Films, DVDs, CDs): Lipikar. (2009).
  • Shabdkosh.com (provides an English to Hindi Dictionary as well as a Hindi to English Dictionary)
  • Raftaar Thematic dictionary (vocabulary and phrases organized by topics: law, physics, zoology, home science, transportation,chemistry, literary criticism, etc.)
  • http://sites.google.com/site/lipikar002/. (input of Hindi characters without the use of a keyboard.)
  • The Story of India, with Michael Wood. (2009). PBS. (DVD)

Language Learning Websites:

  • Hindi Language Info (form, meaning and use of grammar structures; links and more)
  • Akhlesh (a language learning website for children)
  • Door into Hindi (An online Hindi course. Contains sections on the script and grammar as well as video lessons)  
  • Hindi ki Bindi (a language learning website for children)
  • Hindi Language Resources (links to Hindi websites)
  • Hindi Script Tutor (writing instructions, recordings of sounds, and tests.)
  • Langnet (text and audio‐based language learning materials and self‐assessments for various languages.  Available to government agencies and select academic institutions.)  
  • Nayī DishāẽNaye Log (“New Directions, New People”: video‐based story of NRI’s return trip to India.  Also contains audio and slower‐speed audio.)  
  • Modern Hindi Grammar (by Omkar Koul, Indian Institute of Language Studies – link to download pdf)

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