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Summary

FSI is an acronym for the Foreign Service Institute, "the (US) Federal Government's primary training institution for officers and support personnel of the U.S. foreign affairs community".

Over the years, the FSI has researched, designed and taught language courses to Foreign Service staff and diplomats. These courses are now available and licensed to the Public Domain.

FSI-Language-Courses.com (and .net) is a sweet and simple website that provides users with the ability to view and download the Foreign Service Institute's courses for 31+ languages. The content is provided by individuals donating time and resources in an overall effort to provide quality languages-learning materials for free worldwide.

Sounds good to me. :)

In the Hindi section of the site, there is currently a 131-page student text. There are is no audio as yet.

From Website

Welcome to fsi-language-courses.com, the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.

This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. Courses here are made available through the private efforts of individuals who are donating their time and resources to provide quality materials for language learning.

Visit FSI-Language-Courses.com Hindi Courses.

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About Rosetta Stone

From the site:

"We are happy to announce that “A Door Into Hindi,” the interactive, multimedia Elementary Hindi learning website, is partially on line and available now. We invite you to explore the website and try out the various lessons and learning resources.

By the terms of our Department of Education Grant, this entire site is available to anyone in the world, at no charge. You are encouraged to use any of the materials in this site in your Hindi classes and we ask you to send us your feedback and your students’ comments.

The site will ultimately consist of 24 video-based lessons with accompanying scrolling texts, grammar notes, glossaries, cultural notes, “video-professors,” and other learning resources. All 24 lesson videos were filmed in India and Pakistan over the past two years, and editing is currently in progress. The lessons are coming on line over the course of this year, with approximately one new lesson coming up each week. Lessons 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 are ready now. Lesson 7 will come up this month. The review lessons (4, 8, 12, etc.) are not available yet, but these do not include any new grammar information. Additional learning resources and exercises are being added on an on-going basis."

Comments

This site has some pretty good videos for people to get acquainted with some basic conversational Hindi.

There are some dead links and some pages that don't work, but the lessons that do have videos are worth checking out, especially if you are a beginner.

There is also written materials available, including some matching games and other such activities.

Visit A Door into Hindi.

From the site:

"This Hindi learning resource was created and developed by Avashy for the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London."

Comments

A nice little tool for learning the basics of the Hindi Devanagari script.

Visit Hindi Script Tutor.

From the site:

"This site is geared toward students at the beginning and intermediate level. It includes several sections:

1. Stories – mostly popular stories from the Panchatantra, retold by members of the South Asian community in New York City, collected by students from the Hindi classes at NYU. Every story has a series of pictures depicting major events from the plot, as well as a basic glossary list and the text of the story in audio and script. In addition, every picture has an additional audio file, which contains a loose description of the image and a small text file related to it.

2. Reference Grammar – including explanation and illustration of the most basic grammar of the Hindi language.

3. Exercises – intended as a student workbook for practice.

4. Student Projects and Work

5. South Asian Community Feature Magazine

6. Links to useful Hindi language-related sites"

Comments

There is a whole lot of really good content here. Stories with audio and visuals, videos, grammar, exercises and more. The site is very easy to navigate and has a clean feel.

This is top notch site for learning Hindi online... for free!

Visit Virtual Hindi from NYU.