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HINDI MATERIALS
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=I taught Elementary Hindi/Urdu for many years, and always began by explaining the Devanagari script from this chart--on the *front* it has the basic letters, and on the *back* it has all the complexities you really need to know. I am putting it here for sheer nostalgic pleasure. Just in case you want a full-size printable version, here's the *front max* and the *back max*. =The letters of the Devanagari script are slowly drawn for you, and pronounced as well, thanks to ANU: [site]. This is part of a larger distance-learning project they sponsor: [site] =A similar script-learning program from SOAS: [site] =A script-learning program highly recommended by Dr. Susham Bedi: [site]; it seems to work with IE but not well with Firefox ="Stroking the aksharas"-- another website that draws Devanagari letters for you: [site] =Another letter-drawing site: [site] =A basic online Sanskrit text, by Charles Wikner; starting in Lesson 2 it gives beautiful renderings and descriptions of the Devanagari letters: [site] ="A Door Into Hindi," the major online learning materials project sponsored by the Triangle Consortium in North Carolina. It's not all hooked up or polished yet, but stay tuned-- they promise great things for the future: [site] ="Virtual Hindi," a very helpful site at NYU, with many brief stories to be read and listened to, and glossaries to go with them; also videos, and much more: [site] =Prof. Afroz Taj of North Carolina State University teaches Hindi and Urdu together, even at the advanced levels, and his advanced parallel reading materials are online: [site 1], [site 2] =Syracuse University is developing online Hindi/Urdu instructional materials: [site] =The University of Pennsylvania's useful language site: [site]. One valuable thing on the site is their helpful series of intermediate materials, "Na'i disha'en na'e log" (though the script part is hard to make visible): [site] =Latrobe University in Australia has an organized "distance learning" program for Hindi: [site] =The sophisticated "Malhar" materials, with lovely Devanagari fonts, for advanced reading and language learning, prepared by Prof. Peter Hook: [site] =A Premchand Reader by
Norman
Zide (on the DSAL site): [site]
=Christopher Shackle and Rupert Snell, Hindi-Urdu Since 1800: A Common Reader (London: SOAS, 1990): [on this site] =The South Asian Literary Recordings Project of the Library of Congress, with Hindi writers reading their own work: [site] =A Devanagari-script map of the sites referred to in the Mahabharata: on the Library of Congress website: [site] =Gaurishankar Hirachand Ojha, "Nagari ank aur akshara"-- an article in Hindi, about the Devanagari script (on the DSAL site): [site] =On Peter Hook's website, an annotated (idiomatic expressions only) text of the short story "Rabar Baind," by Anvita Abbi: [site] ="A Bibliography of Hindi Literature in English Translation," compiled by Irene Joshi (these are real books, not online texts): [site] =BBC Hindi homepage: [site] =Voice of America Hindi homepage: [site] =India Today's Hindi edition: [site] =An English-Hindi dictionary, Univ. of Pennsylvania, in PDF format: [site] =Kellogg, Rev. S. H., A Grammar of the Hindi Language (1938 ed.): those excellent comparative dialectical charts are [on this site] =An overview article, in Hindi, on Diaspora Hindi fiction by women writers, by Rohini Agarwal: [site] LITERARY JOURNALS and text
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=A neat little anecdote that will amuse those who know the Devanagari script in alphabetical order: [site] =About our annual spring workshop on *South Asian (and especially Hindi/Urdu) texts* at Columbia |
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