Learning Hindi Tutorial

Learning Hindi tutorial is designed to develop basic fluency in spoken and written Hindi.

The aim is to enable you to read and write everyday Hindi and to allow you to understand and participate in conversations on topics such as: families; urban and rural life; talking about daily life; planning journeys; visiting sacred sites; hobbies; diet and dining out; and visiting the post office.

By the end of Learning Hindi tutorial you should have reached a level of proficiency which would allow you to go on to study a higher level Hindi tutorial and develop greater fluency and expression in spoken and written Hindi.

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LESSON 1 In The Fields

* Topic 1.1 How to say ‘some/something’
* Topic 1.2 How to say ‘some/someone’
* Activity 1a Colonel Vinod Investigates
* Activity 1b How many rooms are in my house?
* Activity 1c Where can I find the answer?
* Topic 1.3 How to use the relative pronoun and adjective jo
* Activity 1d What you say is true
* Activity 1e Are the rooms with fans good?
* Topic 1.4 How to say ‘one’s own’
* Activity 1f Do you live in your own home?
* Topic 1.5 How to talk about locations
* Activity 1g Where is the cat?
* Topic 1.6 How to use the word to

LESSON 2 Where Will You Go?

* Topic 2.1 Revise the future tense
* Activity 2a Travel Itinerary
* Activity 2b How much will that be?
* Topic 2.2 How to say ‘should’ and ‘ought’
* Topic 2.3 How to say ‘must’ and ‘have to’
* Activity 2c Someone should do something!
* Activity 2d What’s cooking?
* Topic 2.4 How to say ‘to meet, to get/receive'
* Topic 2.5 How to use conjunct verbs
* Topic 2.6 How to use expressions related to time
* Topic 2.7 How to use direct and indirect objects

LESSON 3 What Is The Time?

* Topic 3.1 How to say 'Having done x... '
* Topic 3.2 How to say months of the year and days of the week
* Activity 3a The days of the week and the planets
* Topic 3.3 How to tell the time
* Activity 3b Time Zones
* Activity 3c The 76 Bus Time Table
* Activity 3d Dinesh's Diary again
* Activity 3e The 42 Bus Time Table
* Topic 3.4 How to be emphatic
* Activity 3f Does only Tara know Hindi?

LESSON 4 Watching Films

* Topic 4.1 How to say ‘to see’, ‘to play’, etc. (uses of infinitives)
* Activity 4a When do children start studying?
* Topic 4.2 How to say you like or dislike things
* Activity 4b Do you like tea?
* Activity 4c I like Sydney
* Topic 4.3 How to make comparisons
* Activity 4d Is Sydney better than Melbourne?
* Topic 4. 4 How to make superlatives
* Activity 4e Dear Suresh
* Topic 4.5 How to say ‘fairly’ and ‘enough’
* Activity 4f Do you know that ....
* Topic 4.6 How to say things like 'I am happy that [something]'
* Topic 4.7 How to ask: which?

LESSON 5 Family And Friends

* Topic 5.1 The vocative case
* Activity 5a Hey you!
* Topic 5.2 Ordinal numbers
* Activity 5b School register
* Topic 5.3 Asking and giving directions (going places)
* Activity 5c Which way to the bank?
* Topic 5.4 Talking about families and relatives
* Topic 5.5 How to ask about who is related to whom?
* Activity 5d A husband's viewpoint
* Activity 5e A wife's viewpoint

LESSON 6 Town And Village

* Topic 6.1 Statements of lasting validity
* Activity 6a Where did you live last year?
* Activity 6b Village life
* Activity 6c A freedom fighter's story
* Topic 6.2 The Formative element vala
* Activity 6d These kids are all 'eighth classers'

LESSON 7 Introducing yourself

* Topic 7.1 Compound verbs
* Activity 7a Give me ten rupees
* Activity 7b Do you read Hindi?
* Topic 7.2 How to ask 'What is this called in Hindi?'

LESSON 8 By The River Side

* Topic 8.1 Review of the continuous tenses
* Activity 8a Hello? Hello?
* Activity 8b Street life
* Activity 8c Who is going where?
* Activity 8d The Sub-inspector’s statement
* Topic 8.2 Ways to say myself, yourself etc.
* Activity 8e I myself am going to Lucknow
* Topic 8.3 Ways to say that something appears to be the case
* Activity 8f On the station

LESSON 9 Making Plans

* Topic 9.1 A review of the subjunctive
* Activity 9a Top That
* Activity 9b What should I/we do?
* Topic 9.2 Further uses of the subjunctive
* Activity 9c Who’s going where?
* Activity 9d Get this done for me today
* Topic 9.3 How to say ‘so that’ and ‘If... then...’
* Topic 9.4 Review of word order and emphasis
* Activity 9e Three wishes
* Activity 9f How much will you win?

LESSON 10 Can You Play Sitar?

* Activity 10a Can you?
* Topic 10.1 How to say that you how to do something
* Activity 10b Do you know how to?
* Topic 10.2 How to say you can do something
* Activity 10c Can you tell me the time?
* Topic 10.3 How to say you have already done something
* Activity 10d Are you finished?
* Topic 10.4 How to say when this happens then that happens
* Activity 10e As soon as I came into the room
* Activity 10f When I was a child
 

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