Say It in Hindi (Dover Say It Series)

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Customer Reviews:

Great Pocket Book [Posted on 2005-09-08]
This book is ideal for popping in a purse or pocket. I carry it with me and when I am waiting for someone in the car, I can learn a phrase or two. I have been experimenting by teaching my husband the odd phrase or two that he shares with the Indian men where he works, and they good naturedly send him back with a phrase to try out on me in turn. The Devanagari script is a little hard on the eyes, but it gives so many useful everyday phrases that, in conjunction with other Hindi learning tools, I have found it speeds up the practical application side of the language.

Good Content - Bad Binding [Posted on 2006-05-24]
I've just started using the book. So far, the content seems good. But contrary to the claim on the cover ("Sturdy binding - pages will not fall out"), the pages are already starting to fall out. Not good for a book that's going to be opened a lot.

Excellent [Posted on 2006-07-10]
Written simplistically and logically this little book augments basic Hindi vocabulary. Explanations are easy to understand. When studying a foreign language, this is most important. The excellently planned foundation makes it essential to someone wanting to learn this beautiful language.

Limited usefulness for people on a short time budget [Posted on 2007-02-09]
I was disappointed in the book. There is a lot of information in it, but the author explains some of the pronunciation in terms of how you speak French, which did not help me much. The pronunciation guide is in a modified phonetic spelling which may be understood by linguists, but which was not terribly user friendly to a layman traveler who had time to study the language only very briefly before arriving in India. This was not the "down and dirty" survival phrase book I had hoped for. Lastly, being a 1981 publication, it does not really reflect all of the English jargon now incorporated in the language.

Great for lots of helpful sayings especially for someone who wants to know basics for touring purposes [Posted on 2007-03-05]
This books is great for a tourist. Not a book you would want to learn from. I totally disagree with TRAVELER'S comment. The pronunciation is actually excellent. It even describes the way to pronounce each letter in the beginning. The system they use for pronunciation is by far one of the easiest I have seen in all the time I have studied Hindi. So pay attention to what everyone else thinks and ignore the one person who for some reason thinks it is not good pronunciation. But I will agree with what someone else said, the binding is not as great as they would like to think it is. I have barely used the book myself since I am learning grammar and the actual language, and the binding is already coming off and pages starting to almost fall out. But seriously it is a great book to learn some basic vocabulary and to pick up useful phrases for purposes of touring :)

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