Practice Makes Perfect Basic Hindi (Practice Makes Perfect Series) 1st Edition

This is truly an amazing book to get, if you're trying to learn Hindi. I learned a little Hindi, watching ZeeTV, when I was hospitalized back in 2013, since then, I've been learning through movies, TV shows, Music, and Food, but I want to speak it fluently, so I ordered the book.

I ordered this Hindi alphabet workbook not realizing I had ordered it before. However, I am not going to return it, because the more I can practice writing, the more I will remember and the better I will get at it. I recommend this workbook to anyone who wants to learn the Hindi language!

This book is a gentle slope for those learning Hindi. As such, it gives the learner time to grasp the essence of the language and build a strong foundation on which to further progress. As many language learners know, compared to the major European languages and Japanese (and now Chinese), resources for many other languages are limited in both quality and quantity. The situation with Hindi is starting to change with the appearance of books such as this one and Delacy's Elementary Hindi, both of which teach Hindi in a systematic way with proper exercises and grammatical explanations. No doubt this book will provide a great foundation for intermediate Hindi study.There is one problem with this book. I believe it is a significant problem. It doesn't negate the other good qualities of this book, which is why it still deserves 4 stars. Nonetheless, it is hard to use Hindi without knowledge of the normal past tense, as opposed to the past imperfect ("used to"). This book only talks about the past imperfect (I used to eat) and does not convey how to make a simple past sentence such as "I went." Now, this is related to a particle in Hindi that is often used with the past, "ne" which is probably one of the most difficult aspects of Hindi grammar for a beginner to grasp. However, it is not a nuance that can be delegated to a more advanced level since it is difficult to use any language without conjugating verbs in the past tense and this is simply the one aspect of Hindi grammar that one must slog through in order to grasp Hindi. Personally, I wish the past tense were included in this book, so that the habituation of students to it could begin, sooner rather than later.

I liked all the McGraw Hill language educational books, and this one is not an exception. Very good composed book!

The media could not be loaded. Not good if you are beginner in Hindi and don’t know how to read Hindi alphabet. It would be more intermediate and for people who know how to read the characters.

I'm not very far into the book, but it's exactly what I was looking for and at a great price.I want to learn both how to read and speak Hindi, and not just a few survival phrases. Most resources I found either taught a few sentences with only transliteration, or they taught only the alphabet.Many of the more modern language learning approaches (e.g. DuoLingo) lack Hindi support. There are subscription websites which provide a sea of material, but they are pricey, and the material is presented almost exclusively in an unwieldy PDF format. I tried those for a while, but I didn't always want to sit down at a computer to learn, and it's hard to flip back and forth compared to a physical book.So that's why I say this is the best resource I've found. It's easy to sit down every day and do five to ten minutes of work to keep one's skills moving forward, but also to dive into longer learning sessions. I'm still supplementing with other materials like podcasts, particularly for pronunciation, but this book will be the foundation of my basic Hindi education.

Definitely recommend. This book helps a ton with breaking things down, not only memorizing the many letters, but understanding how to pronounce the sounds properly. Also very helpful with more advanced stuff like vocabulary and sentence structure.

I've been a rather isolated Hindi learner for a couple years now. This book was perfect for the home learner. When I got to the end of the 25 lessons, I felt I'd had a friend to help me.Basic Hindi doesn't pamper the learner with glossary. Rather, one has to go searching for vocabulary already presented in the book--a useful process for anyone learning of a foreign language.I especially appreciated that I could keep all my materials for the 25 lessons right in one text book. In classes I've had and with a couple teachers, I've ended up with stacks of papers that have to be later sorted out. No extra paper is required for Basic Hindi.This is a good and useful approach. Some of the explanations are the best I've had so far.