Hindi Script Hacking

Whether you're travelling and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Hindi and want to master the basics, this is the book for you.

In this book you will find:

An introduction to Hindi (Devanagari) script

Plenty of practice activities to help you recognise each letter of the alphabet

Helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letter

Accompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words

Handy tips to help you decipher common and familiar words

The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com.

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This book is the best one that I have come across for learning Devanagari script. I've learned a great deal in a short time. -- Dilip Dayaram Tirathdas Amazon
This book is absolutely fantastic! Everything is explained so thoroughly and logically, there is no way you'd struggle learning the alphabet. The progression goes smoothly, I'm amazed of the talent of the authors! [...] Get it! -- E. Ignatova Amazon
If you want to learn Hindi, I definitely recommend getting this book and completing it first. One of the most daunting things about learning Hindi, Korean, Persian, etc. for westerners is the fact that it's written in a totally different alphabet. This book breaks everything down into small bits and builds on each other. It's more in-depth training with the alphabet and writing it than you will get in a standard Hindi course. I know a few people who wouldn't have given up on Hindi so easily if they had gone through this book in its entirety first before trying to learn the language. [...] Highly recommend! -- Michael Niemann Amazon
Fantastic little book to crack the Hindi script, I took my sweet time and went through it in a few weeks. Makes reading and writing Hindi childs play. -- Gr8andi Amazon
This book is a little treasure - it makes learning foreign writing system so fun and lightweight in comparison to heavy lifting of alphabet memorization in practically all other sources. Learning written language beforehand provides a solid grounding to begin actual language learning with confidence. -- IR Amazon

Judith Meyer (Author)

Judith Meyer is a polyglot and language course developer and consultant with an MA in Romance Languages and Computational Linguistics. She speaks 14 languages, including Modern Greek, Chinese and Swahili, and she has successfully learned a number of foreign writing systems. Judith loves to help others succeed in their language-learning and encourages anyone to give it a try. She is the founder of the Polyglot Gathering, one of the largest conferences for polyglots and language bloggers. In addition to authoring the Script Hacking series, she is also co-author of Complete Esperanto.

Naresh Sharma (Author)

Naresh Sharma is a Senior Lecturer in Hindi and Urdu at SOAS, University of London. He has a MA in Hindi and a MA in Language Teaching.

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Hindi (Devanagari) script. Whether you're travelling and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Hindi and want to master the basics, this is the book for you. In this book you will find: An introduction to Hindi (Devanagari) scriptPlenty of practice activities to help you recognise each letter of the alphabet Helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letterAccompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words Handy tips to help you decipher common and familiar words The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com.Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for 80 years.

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