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.
Preface
Section I : The Hindi Alphabet
Chapter 1 : Vowels
Chapter 2 : Consonants
Chapter 3 : Writing Consonants
Chapter 4 : Writing More Consonants
Section II : Hindi Words
Chapter 5 : Diacritic Marks
Chapter 6 : Conjunct Characters
Chapter 7 : More Conjunct Characters
Section III : Hindi Sentences
Chapter 8 : Sentence Structure
Chapter 9 : Questions and Answers
Section IV : The Present Tense
Chapter 10 : Present Indefinite
Chapter 11 : Numbers
Chapter 12 : Possessives
Section V : Nouns
Chapter 13 : People
Chapter 14 : Places
Chapter 15 : Around The House
Chapter 16 : Possessives
Section VI : Adjectives
Chapter 17 : Describing Things
Chapter 18 : Comparisons
Chapter 19 : Food and Drink
Section VII : Postpositions & The Past Tense
Chapter 20 : Postpositions
Chapter 21 : Animals and The Senses
Chapter 22 : The Past Tense
Section VIII : Continuous and The Future Tense
Chapter 23 : Time
Chapter 24 : Continuous Tenses
Chapter 25 : Possessives
Answer Key
Appendix
