自学印地语

06 what work do you do?

1 possession and 'to have'
2 the Sharma family
ManoJ Introduces Pratap to his father
3 you can go
there's nobody In the house
4 let me go!

07 the Past

1 in the past
2 getting specific
3 a shortcut
4 adding emphasis

08 what's happening?

1 comparisons: bigger and smaller
2 continuous tense: '-ing' verbs
Gaeta phones home
3 Raju is reading 'his own' newspaper
revising with Gopal and Jagdlsh
4 these days, in and out, up and down

09 In the future

1 the Mure tense
what will you do tomorrow?
the days ahead
2 its and maybes
Javed calls on Raju
3 so that, in order that
4 how long does it take?

10 what happened?

1 the past tense
2 transitivity
3 other perfective tenses
4 sit and rest - linking two actions

11 It Is said that •••

1 a verb with many meanings
2 finding the way in Vllaspur
3 it is said that •.• the passive is easy
4 you should read this - obligations
5 you must read this - stronger obligations

12 health and style

1 'j-words' and relative clauses
2 getting things done - causatives
a visit to the doctor
3 parts of the body
4 shades of meaning
5 style in Hindi
6 numbers
7 time

key to the exercises
Hindi-English vocabulary
English-Hindi vocabulary
glossary of grammatical terms
index

introduction

Welcome to Beginner's Hindi!
Is this the right course for you?
The Sharma family
script and pronunciation
The recordings
Where does this book lead?

The Hindi script and sounds

Aspiration
Devanagari: the basic characters
Independent vowel forms ('vowel characters')
Consonants
Dependent vowel forms ('vowel signs', based on Cfi as an example)