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Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary | 
| Author: Rupert Snell
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 108201
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0071435034
Dewey Decimal Number: 491.43321
UPC: 639785386612
EAN: 9780071435031
Publication Date: May 1, 2004
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Product Description
Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary provides a comprehensive vocabulary and a concise grammar section. Idiomatic usage is also covered to create a dictionary that is easy to use.
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 Great supplement to Snell's other Hindi Books August 30, 2004
39 out of 42 found this review helpful
Snell has put together a dictionary that English speakers can easily use and contains a lot of language that is spoken by most people who speak Hindi or Urdu in India. It does not lean to much to either Persian/Arabic or Sanskrit, but is nicely in the middle. So, for example if you enjoy Bollywood Hindi movies, this dictionary will be very useful for you when you want to find the meaning of certain words you hear in the films.
Hindi can be a fun language to learn because you can pick up a lot just by watching some really fun movies and I think it is the only other lanaguage besides English that gives you an opportunity to learn it through movie watching. What a deal. India is great that way. More movies are made in Bollywood each year than Hollywood, so between this dictionary and Bollywood and either of Snell's other Teach Yourself books, you will be understanding Hindi in no time and then you can impress your friends and family by speaking such a distant langugae like a native. Go for it.
Better than you think October 6, 2005
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
I am a third year Hindi Student at UW-Madison and I must say I was skeptical of such a small dictionary, but the one is pretty good. It has sentence examples for most of the verbs and it points out when the structure in Hindi is different from the structure in English so you learn a good bit about usage while using the dictionary as well. It is a small dictionary, but the selection of words is very good.
If only it were bigger! June 28, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
My only complaint about this dictionary is that it's not more extensive. My Oxford English-to-Hindi dictionary was clearly designed for Hindi speakers learning English, not the other way around. Not so the Teach Yourself Hindi Dictionary. Where multiple translations apply, this dictionary gives not only the translations, but a plentiful supply of usage examples. In the front there is a clear, comprehensive section of the Devanagari script -- including an exhaustive list of consonant conjuncts and a concise grammar reference. The ambitious student could gain an elementary understanding of the language using this book alone -- though I don't recommend it.
If I ran the world and could improve this book in any way I wanted, I would only expand it to include more words. The material that IS there is excellent, I just wish there were more of it. That's the only reason I hold back from giving 5 stars.
Whether you're teaching yourself or getting formal instruction, this is one reference you should NOT be without. And the price should be within any budget.
Critic December 14, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
very good indeed but a pity it does not exist with more entries specially in english. Romanized characters for beginners and well choosen words.
Great dictionary for English speakers learning hindi March 8, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I began learning Hindi a semester and a half ago, this is a good dictionary for me at my stage right now. it offers a single word translations as well as phrase translations. I recommend it to people learning Hindi.
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