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Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi Script | 
| Author: Rupert Snell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 37137
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0071419845
Dewey Decimal Number: 491
EAN: 9780071419840
Publication Date: June 6, 2003
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Product Description
Now learning non-Roman-alphabet languages is as easy as A-B-C! Readers wanting to learn the basics of reading and writing a new language that employs script will find all they need in the Teach Yourself Beginner's Script series. Each book includes a step-by-step introduction to reading and writing in a new language as well as tips and practice exercises to build learners' skills. Thanks to the experts at Teach Yourself, script will no longer be all "Greek" to language learners--unless of course, it is Greek script! Teach Yourself Beginner's Script series books feature: - Origins of the language
- A systematic approach to mastering the script
- Lots of "hands-on" exercises and activities
- Practical examples from real-life situations
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Excellent! February 3, 2001
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
This book offers a clear and complete introduction to the Devanagari script with numerous reading and writing exercises. After some brief remarks on the Devanagari syllabary's history and significance the author starts off explaining every letter and signs of the script. He does it indicating the stroke sequence and giving handwritten examples of every character. A very brief chapter teaches the reader some basic sentences and commands. The book is rounded off by six specimens of native speakers' handwriting and a short glossary at the end.
A great companion to the Teach Yourself Hindi Set April 12, 2004
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought this together with the Teach Yourself Hindi book/CD set, also from Rupert Snell, and they make a great combo. Learning devanagari was always the part of learning Hindi I was least looking forward to, but the book is so well put together that it makes the challenge very interesting. Right from its fascinating introduction, dealing with the hisory, structure and philosophy of the script, it helps build an eagerness to master devanagari, essential to really mastering the language. I can't think of a reason not to buyn this book, especially in tandem with the Teach Yourself CD set.
An Excellent Resource to Learning the Devanagari Script September 13, 2005
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Learning a whole new script can be a dauntling task; a good resource, however, can help one achieve one's goal. I found this book to be very helpful in learning to read and write the Devanagari script. Of all the scripts I have learnt, eg, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, this one has been the most difficult. This book goes into detail on pronunciation, history, and shows one how to write the script. I loved the introductory history to Hindi.
 Thorough and effective, but... August 13, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have tried to teach myself Hindi, and there is no denying that the key to learning the language and its pronunciation is learning the script. This book is methodical, thorough, and very effective. I used it at the beginning while working with more comprehensive books, and I learned the writing system very fast with its help. This in turn made studying with the other books that much more valuable.However, once done with the book I actually didn't have to go back to it., which is a good thing, because the physical quality of this book is appalling. It is so poorly bound that during my very first attempt to open and copy from it, it came apart immediately, and only lots of scotch tape kept it from disintegrating entirely before I was done with it. This is unacceptable for the price!
Devangari asan hai! January 4, 2002
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent into the language of Hindi, I picked this book mainly in the interest of looking at it, and found the writting system was fascinating enough to buy the book. Once you get past the background chapters about the language the book gets you directly into writting characters, and doing excersises. In about a week I was able to write all the consants and vowels, and understand basic 'conjuncts', which are probubly the hardest thing about the writting. Conjuncts are basically two consanants put together. The next chapters skim the surface of grammer and basic sentences. The end has 5 appendices giving you writting examples that would make you scratch your head in confusion for awhile, Numbers, Answers and even additional practice.The book is also full of numerous signs that have things written in Hindi in them, these make learning the different fonts much easier and get you out of looking for the English letters in some of them. My one complaint is the way this book doesn't explain the sounds to well, and the writting examples in the end are horrible! I write bad in english but it seems these people had burned their palms before trying to write.
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