What you are about to discover in this book is a wholly new concept of learning and teaching Hindi, which you have never seen before even if you already know or teach Hindi. Many people living in Guyana, the West Indies, Suriname, Fiji, Canada, USA, UK, Africa and Europe; also children of Indian parents living outside India, so also many people in India, learning the English Medium Schools and in the non-Hindi speaking Indian provinces, want to learn Hindi through English Medium. For them, it is a unique level-I Hindi learning book.
What is unique of this book is my new but proven scientific method of teaching Hindi, even to absolutely new learners. Here, purposefully, the consonants are discussed first and then the vowels. Within the consonants, the characters are grouped into sets based on their shapes, not on their alphabetical order as always done. With this new way, it is our experience that even absolutely new learners learn to read Hindi within a very short time of only few hours. Unique charts are key tools in this book. One of them you will find on the back cover of this book, in the form of the ‘Chart of Hindi Alphabet.’ Many of our students colour-copy this chart and pin it on a wall as a beautiful quick reference. In our school it is a large 3ft x 4ft size poster. Students love it. (You can order it from this site www.hilwebsite.com - under posters)
Many excellent books written to learn Hindi through the Hindi medium or through English Medium but giving you pre-made Hindi sentences. The books written in the Hindi medium must assume that the self-learners already know Hindi well enough to follow the book without anybody’s help. It means, here the self-learners’ purpose is to ‘improve’ the language skill, rather than ‘to learn’ the language from level zero. How suitable is a book written in the very language that a learner is trying to learn? For example, if you do not know Chinese, is it a good idea to learn Chinese through a book written in Chinese? Exactly same is true for Hindi too. The teachers and learners who teach or self-learn Hindi, through a book written in Hindi must appreciate this basic difference, if they are serious in achieving full benefit for their efforts. The present book gives you full benefit for your work. But, if you must learn Hindi through spoon feeding you pre-made sentences, you may start at Lesson 16 of this book. Normally the Hindi learning books are based on such pre-made sentences.
The Hindi teachers and learners who use books written in Hindi medium or pet-sentences, will at first hesitate to try this new method, but they should rest assured that once they discover the astonishing effectiveness of this book, they will be glad to have gaven it a try.
For ‘teaching’ Hindi from level zero, here it is first assumed that the reader does not know Hindi at all. Thus, right from Lesson one till the end, you will notice the meticulous care assuring that the material discussed on every page deals ONLY with the information covered in previous pages, a common sense but very rarely practiced. In addition, at after every step, the material covered up to that point is cumulatively reviewed under a novel entry called, ‘what we have learned so far.’ This cumulative learning is one of the beautiful aspects of this book.
While learning Hindi, you must understand how to make your own sentences, rather than memorize pre-made ‘pet-sentences.’ By remembering the pet-sentences you may think you have learned Hindi in a week, but then you will have to wait until you get an opportunity to use the pre-made sentences you remember. However, by knowing the simple technique given in this book, for making your own sentences to express your original thoughts, all you have to remember is the technique, and then the sky is the limit. You may still use some English vocabulary and speak thus: Please have a cup of tea (chaaya kaa kap leejiye), or, this is my car (yaha meri kaar hai), but now-a-days it is quite alright. In fact, in India it is a common fashion to speak ‘Hinglish’ language. The Hindi movies are full of it.
In this book you will discover unique Tables, Charts and Noble Truths I discovered, after long research and contemplation, to reveal the inner structure of the Hindi language, like no other book does. You will find them useful, interesting and educational. With these scientific and easy to follow tools, JUST BY MASTERING THE USE OF TABLES 18, 23 AND 25, YOU CAN START MAKING AND SPEAKING YOUR OWN SENTENCES QUICKLY AND WITH CONFIDENCE.
One of the uncommon but valuable feature in this book are the Answers and word meanings (in English transliteration as well as in Hindi) to all Questions asked in various Exercises and Examples, which makes it a true self-tutor, ‘without any help form anyone whatsoever.’ Without this idea, modeled after the ‘Schaums’ Books, the self learners would have been left in the dark, annoyed and helpless, wondering at each question, ‘Did I Get it Right?’ and ‘Did I Pronounce it Correctly?’ I have many Guyanese, West Indian, Canadian and South Indian students who just want to learn to ‘speak’ in Hindi, without particular preference to writing or reading it, other than writing their name etc. Even for them, who want to learn Hindi without a teacherand wholly through transliteration, this book is the right one.
I have tried to make this book as cpmplete, simple, effective and useful as possible. If you like this book, please use my Hindi level II book for further learning. You will greatly benefit.
(Ratnakar Narale)