intermediate

Summary

This website has a growing number of resources for Hindi language learners. There is an aactive blog and podcast, as well as a dictionary and a resource section with links to many useful Hindi resources.

From Website

Hi! I'm Nathan. You and I have something in common. We both want to learn Hindi. And you have come to the right place. ? Speak Hindi is a website dedicated to helping people like us to learn Hindi. Learning another language can be a difficult endeavor, and it is good to take it in small steps with help and the right tools. This site aims to provide that to you. And you will love the price! It is absolutely free.

So, where to start? The main service this site provides is a daily podcast where I and one of our Hindi experts talk about the language. Try out the "Essential Hindi" link below. This covers the basic phrases that are most helpful. It is a good place for anyone to start regardless of what your ultimate goal is. There are also other language tools described below.

Our Hindi Experts

The podcasts feature many Hindi experts. However, three you will see appearing in most of these episodes. They are my mother-in-law Meena. She was a Hindi teacher for 30 years. She is retired now, but still enjoys teaching other people Hindi. My father-in-law, Nariandas, he is a native Hindi speaker with a very clear, easy to listen to voice and a wonderful spirit. Then there is my wife, Sonia, she always makes the episodes fun with a chirpy personality, and interesting insights into Hindi. Also, there will be many guest appearances by my friends that know Hindi.

Link

Visit ISpeakHindi.com

Summary

If you don't know about Wikipedia, now is the time to find out! Especially since it is so useful in learning languages.

Wikipedia is the "Free Encyclopedia", a collectively-authored, dynamic, online encyclopedia that is free not only as in price, but also as in freedom. This means that the content you find anywhere on Wikipedia is free and open in the Public Domain. You can reproduce, redistribute and rehash the information there. This is empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License. This same license protects and empowers the contant on Free Language! (How?)

This particular resource links to the Wikipedia entry on the Hindi language. This entry contains loads of information for the curious reader as well as for the serious Hindi language learner, including historical and linguistic data.

Use this resource to become familiar with the Hindi language and its context in today's world, to discover facts and linguistic data about Hindi and its many varieties, access further information about and resources for learning Hindi, and much more.

From Resource

Hindi (pronunciation, Devanagari: हिन्दी or हिंदी, IAST: Hindī, IPA: [hɪnd̪iː]), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union along with English. It is part of a language continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, and Gujarati; on the south by Marathi and Konkani; on the southeast by Oriya; on the east by Bengali; and on the north by Nepali.

More narrowly, Hindi also refers to a standardized register of Hindustani termed khariboli, that emerged as the standard dialect.

Visit "Hindi Language" on Wikipedia.

License

GNU Free Documentation License

From the site:

"World Nomads present a series of podcast language guides. They are yours to download for free and contain all the essential phrases to keep you traveling safely.

We hope that in 2007 there'll be time to produce a few more guides, so feel free to leave us a comment or send an email with suggestions for the languages you'd like to learn."

Comments

This podcast, along with other podcasts by World Nomads, has nice entries with world-traveler action and a transcription to boot.

Visit World Nomads Hindi Language Guide for your iPod.

From the site:

"Here you'll find some useful resources to help you to understand the Hindi Language better. It's spoken by almost 500 million people over the world, the third most spoken language. It's the official language of India, the country with the second largest population in the world. From the History to useful phrases, we're trying to offer a general overview about the language in order to give you a way to get started in Hindi learning. We do NOT aim to write all about Hindi Language, it is almost impossible to achieve :-). But we DO want to hear from you suggestions to improve the site and offer you the content YOU consider more useful. Please fell free to contact us.

For a quick start up please see our Hindi Words section. Just after you can take your first steps into the grammar, but it's just an overview, if you want to take it more seriously, you'll have to study many years. The Hindi literature is another interesting source of information, as well as Hindi slang, to know a little about how people speak in the streets. And if you're a teacher, please visit our Hindi Teaching resources page, to get in touch with associations and other sites built specially for you. You'll find also links to Hindi language schools."

Comments

This site has general information about the Hindi language. Also on the site are some useful phrases and many odds and ends about Hindi, such as dialects, dictionaries, forums, newsletters, schools, products, slang and translation.

This site is definitely worth a look for anyone interested in learning about the Hindi language, as well as those learning the language itself.

Visit HindiLanguage.org

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.