Speaking In Hindi

Speaking in Hindi tutorial is based around developing skills in reading, writing and speaking modern Hindi.

Topics covered include: food and drink, hotels, post offices, health and well being, education, travel, politics, marriages, environmental issues, contemporary Hindi and the modern Indian media.

Language issues addressed are: expressing feelings; relative-correlatives for locations, number, quantity, type and manner; compound verbs; modal verbs; intransitive, transitive and causative verb forms; conjunct verb formation; adjectival and adverbial participle constructions; participle uses related to time; passive and active constructions; the feasibility construction and the use of idiom.

The learning outcome of Speaking in Hindi tutorial should be that you are able to discourse on a wide range of topics and be in a position to start reading modern Hindi texts.

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Lesson One: Expressing Feelings and Continuity

* Introduction
* Dialogue 1a: Food and Drink
* Topic 1.1: Expressing feelings
* Dialogue 1b: I've been eating meat since childhood
* Topic 1.2: Expressing continuity

Lesson Two: Hotels

* Introduction
* Dialogue 2a: Accommodation
* Topic 2.1: Relative-correlatives for locations
* Dialogue 2b: Checking a booking
* Topic 2.2: Reported speech
* Dialogue 2c: Registering
* Topic 2.3: Speaking to and from people

Lesson Three: In The Post Office

* Introduction
* Dialogue 3a: In the Post Office
* Topic 3.1: Echo words ‘chit chat’
* Dialogue3b: Sending parcels
* Topic 3.2: quantity and number
* Dialogue 3c: Still In the Post Office
* Topic 3.3: Compound verbs: allowing actions

Lesson Four: Health Issues

* Introduction
* Dialogue 4a: Sickness
* Topic 4.1 The postpositions ke jaisa/-sa
* Dialogue 4b: Injuries
* Topic 4.2 Relative-correlatives for type and manner
* Dialogue 4c: At the chemists
* Topic 4.3: Relative-correlatives for number and quantity

Lesson Five: Education

* Introduction
* Dialogue 5a: Education
* Topic 5.1 To begin (infinitive + lagna)
* Dialogue 5b: Gangotri
* Topic 5.2 Modal verbs

Lesson Six: Travel

* Introduction
* Dialogue 6a: Tom's trip
* Topic 6.1 Intransitive, transitive and causative verbs
* Group one
* Group two
* Dialogue 6b: A trip to Goa
* Group three
* Group four
* Dialogue 6c: Been before?
* Group five

Lesson Seven: Indian Politics

* Introduction
* Dialogue 7a: Indian Politics
* Topic 7.1 Conjunct verbs used with ka/ke/ki) as in kampyutar ka istemal karna
* Vision and worship
* Dialogue 7b: Who will you vote for?
* Topic 7.2 The visible and the audible

Lesson Eight: Marriage

* Introduction
* Dialogue 8a: Marriage
* Topic 8.1 Matters of life, love and death
* Dialogue 8b: Where is the wedding
* Topic 8.2 Expressions with yad to remember

Lesson Nine: Pollution

* Introduction
* Dialogue 9a: Pollution
* Topic 9.1 Saying things like ‘boiled water’
* Dialogue 9b: Pollution (continued)
* Topic 9.2 Adverbial Participle constructions

Lesson Ten: Wedding Processions

* Introduction
* Dialogue 10a: Wedding receptions
* Topic 10.1 ‘As soon as I saw’
* Topic 10.2 Perfective participle plus bina/baghair
* Dialogue 10b: Changing times
* Topic 10.3 Repetition of the participle
* Dialogue 10c: Picnic plans
* Topic 10.4 How long...?

Lesson Eleven: Contemporary Hindi

* Introduction
* Passage 11a: Contemporary Hindi
* Topic 11.1 Passive and active constructions
* Agents in Passive sentences
* Irregular form of jana in passive sentences
* Passage 11b: Hindi and Urdu
* Topic 11.2 Passive and intransitive

Lesson Twelve: Entertainment

* Introduction
* Dialogue 12a: Films
* Topic 12.1 The use of namak
* Dialogue 12b: Making plans
* Topic 12.2 The Feasibility Construction
* Dialogue 12c: Time to go

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