Practice Makes Perfect Basic Hindi

Sonia Taneja (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2012
McGraw-Hill Contemporary (Verlag)
978-0-07-178424-5 (ISBN)

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Provides exercises to help you develop your Hindi script, grammar, vocabulary, and conversation skills. This title includes coverage that ranges from reading and writing the Devanagari script, to mastering of core vocabulary, basic grammar, and conversational structures.

Bite-sized instruction and hundreds of engaging exercises to help you develop your Hindi script, grammar, vocabulary, and conversation skills

Get a solid foundation in Hindi with Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Hindi. You will learn everything from reading and writing the Devanagari script, to mastering of core vocabulary, basic grammar, and conversational structures.

You will get clear guidance on writing the Hindi script; transliteration for all Hindi text in the first four chapters; and online recordings of key vocabulary and expressions to aid correct pronunciation.

Sonia Taneja, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Hindi at the Defense Language Institute. A member of the Hindi curriculum development team, she teaches Hindi classes to active U.S. service men and women. She was previously a lecturer in Hindi at Columbia University and a Hindi Regents Exam Writer for the NY City Department of Education.

I The Hindi Alphabet
1. Vowels
2. Consonants
3. Writing consonants
4. Writing more consonants
II Hindi Words
5. Diacritic marks
6. Conjunct characters
7. More conjunct characters
III Hindi Sentences
8. Sentence structure
9. Questions and answers
IV The Present Tense
10. Present indefinite
11. Numbers
12. Possessives
V Nouns
13. People
14. Places
15. Around the house
16. Possessives
VI Adjectives
17. Describing things
18. Comparisons
19. Food and drink
VII Postpositions & the Past Tense
20. Postpositions
21. Animals and the senses
22. The past tense
VIII Continuous and the Future Tense
23. Time
24. Continuous tenses
25. Possessives
Answer key
Appendix

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.8.2012
Zusatzinfo	0 Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 274 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-07-178424-1 / 0071784241
ISBN-13	978-0-07-178424-5 / 9780071784245
Zustand	Neuware