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Bestselling language courses now with audio CDs!
From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
- Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
- Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
- Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
- Practical vocabulary
- Regular and irregular verb tables
- Plenty of practice exercises and answers
- Bilingual glossary
The new editions also feature:
- Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
- Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
- Website suggestions to take language study further
Customer Reviews:
Great!.......2007-10-08
We used this book as a Hindi textbook in a university class. I still use it.
Probably not for the new student.......2007-10-07
This is a great book, but I'd recommend the "Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi" and "Beginners Hindi Script" by the same author prior to starting this course. It throws the student straight in the deep end with conversation and beyond the first few chapters all the Hindi is written in the Devanagari script, which means you need to know it first before you can progress. The CDs are helpful with pronunciation, particularly with the retroflex consonants, which are a challenge to the English speaker!
teach yourself hindi.......2007-09-06
I've used several language cd prgrams, including Colloquial Hindi and Pimsleur, and I think Teach Yourself is the cream of the crop. I find it easy to follow, and well paced. The dialogues make sense, and follow an actual storyline. For the price, I don't think you can do better than this one.
outstanding.......2007-08-27
this text was the core text for my university hindi course. every chapter begins with a dialog and this is followed by grammer exercises. the text covers a comprehensive overview of hindi grammer and also has numerous exercises with answers at the back. moreover, there is a comprehensive hindi-english dictionary at the back. it is an outstanding book and i suggest it for anyone who is interested in learning the language.
Learning Quickly.......2007-07-08
The Teach Yourself Hindi Complete Course is the best language package I've seen. Just be sure to look online at the recommended pages listed in the Taking it Further section to learn the right ways to write the characters. I'm doing just a little each day and it is sticking well. The lessons don't have a lot of over-explanation or busy work, you figure out your own pace. Going at my current pace I should be through all the lessons in six months, which seems to be a good foundation of the language.
Book Description
Bestselling language courses now with audio CDs!
From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
- Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
- Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
- Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
- Practical vocabulary
- Regular and irregular verb tables
- Plenty of practice exercises and answers
- Bilingual glossary
The new editions also feature:
- Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
- Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
- Website suggestions to take language study further
Customer Reviews:
Not for beginners.......2007-09-03
A really authoritative course in Urdu with lots of useful cultural info as well. It puts you at the deep end and gets tougher. The main problem that will stop most beginners getting past chapter one is that they decide to use the nastaliq (complex cursive) script from the beginning. Given that "ordinary" cursive arabic script is tricky enough to get your head around this more elaborate form is a real obstacle. Even native speakers have to know the words in Urdu before they can pronounce them properly from this script so the benefit of this immersion method is not clear. They could have been gentler with beginners and had a few more chapters exclusively in roman script to ease them in.
If you have a grasp of the language from other sources and want to use this to build up grammar as well as reading and writing skills this will do the job.
Michael
sunie.......2007-02-05
I disagree with all of the prior glowing reviews. What is most likely the case is that the reviewers, being completely new to Urdu, did not have an appropriate standard of what is required of a book of this sort. I, on the other, know Hindi, and bought it not to learn a new language, but another register of one already learned. I came to learn Perso-Arabic script and vocabulary. Thus I can give an assessment with that in tow.
The book contains 15 chapters of 3 dialogues each, centering around the travels of an Urdu-speaking Englishman, John Smith (jAn ismith), in Pakistan (Land of the Pure) and a bit of India. The first thing he wanted to do in Delhi was visit Jama Masjid and the Red Fort. LOLLLL. ... Anyway, after each dialogue, the book doles out bits of information: syntax, conjugations, idioms, etc. in not so much a comprehensive but a simple yet soundly-explained way, putting the reader at ease. One of its good points is the cultural tidbits (siqAfat). The book invariably takes a long time to read, due to the lameness of Urdu Script, which seems, unlike brAhmI-based scripts, to takes more than a Teach Yourself book to get down pat, to say the very least.
My criticism of the book is that it is very slow. It went well throughout the beginning, but it was when I landed upon the 11th or 12th chapter, nearing the end, that I started to worry. Besides getting sick of reading so many "bahut"'s, by that time I saw that SO much had not been explained. The real meat of the grammar, such as the relative-correlatives is only touched upon in the last throes of the course. Bizarre! Causatives are merely grazed, and passives have no mention at all! The book ends right there, when it really needs at least 30 more pages. It is this major fault, this slowness and incompleteness, that warrants a low score. The other criticisms I have are the lack of a "Further Reading" section, to recommend where to go when you're done; there being no primer on naskh (original Arabic) script, which is the digital standard; no reference grammar (though there is an index); no English-Urdu dictionary; and the lack of spaces between words (I don't know if it's the authors or Urdu convention). There are some typos but it's not too big a deal.
With that said, what I recommend instead is the fantastic Teach Yourself Hindi by Snell and Weightman. Its reviewing on Amazon is much too brutal, too unwarranted, perhaps somewhat ridiculous. Complaints about its intensity only match its comprehensiveness: it's the closest to everything you'd want to know. Having learned Hindi in the fantastic Devanagari (Divine City) script, you can then go ahead with Urdu, undertaking the single struggle (jihad, lol) of learning a new and difficult script over the double-struggle (double-jihad, lol) of learning a new and difficult script AND a new language.
Though there is the possibility that Teach Yourself Urdu ("Camp") in it's incompleteness is not too different from other Teach Yourself
books and that rather Teach Yourself Hindi ("Indian") is uncharacteristically thorough! :]
Me gusta (lo que llevo leido).......2006-08-23
El libro está bastante bien. La clasificación de las lecciones es clara, las explicaciones son minuciosas y tiene diálogos con personajes simpáticos para ponerse en situación. Me gustan mucho los CDs, se escuchan bien y en poco tiempo empiezas a entender lo que dicen.
En contra: está en inglés, por lo que al explicar la pronunciación de cada letra es algo lioso. El tipo de letra cuando escriben en urdu es muy pequeña y veces no se distingue bien.
Urdu asaan nahin hai, magar yeh kitab achi se achi thi. .......2006-04-14
On the box it says that the goal of this book was to reach "all-around confidence". It did that and more. This book covers a variety of subjects while following the story of John and his wife Helen as they travel through several sites Pakistan and North India. There were even several situations and vocabulary words that they covered that I thought I would never need to use, but found myself using in conversation shortly after. Also, the culture notes were a very nice touch as well. And as a Muslim I really liked the Islamic culture notes they brough up also.
I am a USAF military linguist and I was 100% sure that the best way to learn a language was to be in a class all day, or immerison in the specific country, or among friends. This book proved me wrong. The content is difficult, especially after the 5th chapter because they remove the English transliteration and you are stuck reading the Urdu script and can only "cheat" by going to the back of the book. It seemed like every five chapters it got REALLY hard and seemed not gradual enough in the level of difficulty. But it took me three weeks to finish this book (I will admit, that was way too fast) and afterwards I was speaking and thinking in Urdu and the overall goal of "all around confidence" was definatley met.
That being said, I want to share the downsides, which are few. The errors that a lot of the reviewers talked about, I didn't notice until the last few chapters, and most of the students will probably notice this because by that point they are familiar with the Urdu script and it won't be a problem. Also, I learned Arabic script first from "Teach yourself Arabic Script" and "Very Simple Arabic Script" so I can't comment on their Urdu script introduction, which is needed for the rest of the book. You can't fake it past chapter five without knowing the script!
Finally, I would like to add that if you are *really* serious about learning Urdu, this is THE book to get, but still there is a long way to go. I *highly suggest* following up by getting "Urdu - An Essential Grammar" by Ruth Schmidt afterwards. I was so confident in Urdu after this "Teach Yourself" course but the Grammar book will make your realize that there is still a whole bunch more to be learnt and clear up the fuzzy spots. But overall, I very highly recommended "Teach Yourself Urdu Complete Course" very, VERY well done.
great choice_ make sure you get a dictionary as well........2006-01-17
It is as compact as it gets... I was amazed to see myself reading and understanding (!) websites in Urdu after 3 weeks max (i have to mention tho, that i am a native Turkish speaker with some knowledge of Persian.. that certainly helped me memorize words much faster and eaily). The topics are well chosen, giving just about info you'd need for a daily conversation (and survival). The repetition pattern helps a lot to keep words in your mind. And no matter how much I want to complain about it's load of grammar and structure, in the end, it proved successful.
pros: has a mini dictionary, there is no english transliteration after unit 6 (but included as an appendix- it pushes you to try to understand), includes info about the culture and traditions as well.
cons: the dictionary could've been more comprehensive (a seperate verb list would be good), not enough chance to exercise what you've learned.
Book Description
Bestselling language courses!
From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
- Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
- Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
- Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
- Practical vocabulary
- Regular and irregular verb tables
- Plenty of practice exercises and answers
- Bilingual glossary
The new editions also feature:
- Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
- Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
- Website suggestions to take language study further
Customer Reviews:
Excellent if you are prepared to put the effort in........2006-04-21
Teach Yourself Hindi is an excellent value book that covers the most common aspects of Hindi grammar. Being only a relatively small book it does not go into great detail and moves at a fast pace. To get the most out of it you really need to go over each chapter again and again until you understand it. Using this book thoroughly will yield its rewards.
The Hindi is written in Devanagari with only the first five chapters being transliterated into Latin characters. While I found the introduction to Devanagari sufficient, it is very brief. Some people might have trouble learning the script. A book that teaches the script in more detail might be a good idea.
Also learning a language from a book completely neglects the oral side of the language. Anyone trying to learn Hindi from this book will need at least audio tapes, a Hindi speaker to converse with would be even better.
Lastly the vocabulary listed in the book is rather small. A dictionary would be a very good idea.
If you are a beginner who wants to learn Hindi and be literate in the language this book is excellent value. I would however discourage someone who just wants to learn a few phrases for travel from buying this book. The book doesn't do everything, (it is unfair to expect this), but what it does do it does well.
Adequate book if you're willing to invest the time.......2006-04-20
Of the few books that are available to anyone who is interested in learning Hindi on their own, this is probably one of the better books on the market. Though there are things that I like about the book, there are just as many things that I feel could be improved upon. Here are the main points why I think this book is better than most:
1) The explantions are clear as long as you understand most of the basic elements of language (i.e. subject, object, verb, noun, pronoun, adverb, etc.), and the different tenses (i.e. present, subjunctive, past, future, perfective, etc.)
2) In most cases, the book gives sufficient examples to explain any particular grammatical point.
3) The dialogues are available on CDs, which are much more convenient than cassette tapes.
4) It is well structured and easy to follow, which makes it just as handy as a reference.
5) It includes a very useful appendix and glossary, and every chapter has "test" exercises at the end of the chapter with an answer key in the back of the book.
There are things about the book that annoy me as well, such as:
1) The lesson order of the book. You aren't introduced to verbs or the Hindi sentence structure until a bit later in the book, where it seemed to me that it should have been introduced much earlier.
2) Word grouping does not seem to exist in this book. That is, rather than introduce the vocabulary for clothes, colors, and parts of the body in the same lesson (which is helpful for memorization and associating words with one another), you might learn the word for 'face' in one chapter and the word for 'eye' in another.
3) In order to reinforce any newly acquired knowledge, the book should have exercises after each section rather than just at the end of each chapter. By the time I finished a chapter, I had sometimes forgotten what I had learned in the beginning.
4) The CDs should have gone over the dialogues line-by-line at a slow pace at first, then repeat them at a normal conversational pace. There are points in some of the dialogues where it is hard to decipher one word from the next, and other points where the dialogues seemed choppy and unnatural. Additionally, the CDs would go over some (but not all) of the answers to the end-of-chapter questions. I thought it would be better if they had made a seperate disc for all of the answers, and focused on pronunciation exercises and/or listen-and- respond type exercises.
Overall, if you're willing to dedicate 2 hours a day for six months or so, then you're likely to be successful at having an intermediate knowledge of Hindi. One word of caution: DO TAKE THE TIME IN THE BEGINNING TO LEARN THE DEVANAGARI SCRIPT. It will pay off very quickly. If you do not, you can not proceed past Chapter 5.
critic.......2005-12-14
it is ok and grammar point are well explained but i have the assimil as well to complete. Just this one would not be enough.
If the will is there, you will speak Hindi.......2004-03-17
Before opening this book, I wouldn't believe you could learn a language from a book. But the authors have done an amazing job of simplifying the language, breaking it down into the basic elements and conveying it all to the reader. Three factors make this book exceptional:
Structure: every chapter in the book is built on the ones preceding it. Initially it is frustrating, because verbs, the cornerstone of any language, are not introduced until chapter 5. But the preparations are essential.
Exercises: the exercises at the end of each chapter cover and reiterate the important aspects and stress translations in a sentence-context. All the answers are provided at the end of the book.
Size: The book is small enough to travel with. The information in the book is very concise, but very detailed. Make sure to read and re-read every sentence starting with the introduction, as you may miss important points.
Hindi is not a difficult language, conjugations are straightforward and unusual verbs are few. After two months of studying for about an hour a day I was able to converse with Indians, albeit in very basic Hindi, but certainly get my meaning across and understand theirs. Most all Indians were very keen on taking the time to listen to me and speak slowly, especially the ones who spoke little English and found it a rare opportunity to communicate with a foreigner. If you're willing to invest your time, this book will indeed teach you Hindi!
A Real Improvement.......2001-03-25
This "Second Edition" of Teach Yourself Hindi is a real improvement over the previous edition. The lessons have been arranged in a more logical manner and the vocabulary is much more up to date. The dialogs are also more current in subject matter. The Grammar is explained in a more concise manner with better examples than the first edition. The Devanagari script is used throughout the book - with the first five lessons being transliterated completely. Which brings us to the only drawback to the book - the script is not covered in any depth. This can be a problem for some beginners. For a more complete study of the writing system the beginner should try the book "Teach Yourself Hindi Script" by the same author. If you get the book with the tapes it is one of the better Hindi resources that is readily available today.
Average customer rating:
- NOT FOR BEGINNERS!
- For intermediate level Hindi speakers
- excellent book for intermediate learners
- Had it not for this book, I would have never learned Hindi !
- You could do better
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NOT FOR BEGINNERS!.......2000-10-13
This book is very theoretical. It is well structured, but it surely takes forever to be able to talk a couple of every day sentences. It goes to the Hindi script too fast (Chapter 5). After that you cannot proceed without being able to read Devangari. On top of that it doesn't teach you the script, it just shows all the letters and tells you how to pronounce them. The script is too small to be able to practice it correctly. It is absolutely not for beginners, because a quick entry into the language is not easily possible.
For intermediate level Hindi speakers.......2000-09-30
This book/audiotape is definitely not for beginners learning Hindi. So, do not get this book if you have not been exposed to the language. It progresses very quickly into Devangari script and I promise you that the book will end for you there if you cannot read Devangari. This book seems to be for those seriously wanting to learn Hindi and not for those merely wanting to recite lines from memory.
excellent book for intermediate learners.......2000-07-29
This is the best book I've read for learning Hindi. It's clear, thorough, and amazingly systematic. It's a bit difficult for a complete beginner, however, so if you're starting from zero, you might consider doing another course first to work up to this one. Additionally, you might want to get a bit of practice with the Devangari script before launching into this book because you need to have learned it by the end of Unit 5 in order to do the other 13 Units, and the type is kind of small. The cassettes are also good--the native speakers speak clearly, and there's no irrelevant discussion in English.
Had it not for this book, I would have never learned Hindi !.......2000-02-26
If you really want to learn Hindi, I recommend you this book! Nothing to do with all the other manual that I've found around, which were unclear and approximate. This one is complete, clear, step by step, and if you come over the initial difficulty of learning devanagari script, it really takes you further on in the practical use of the language. I have learned Hindi most of the time studying it on the train while going to work!
You could do better.......1999-03-31
Though the book was useful, the vocabulary selected for each unit seemed quite random. As vocabulary is essential to language study, I see this as a serious flaw. In traditional language textbooks, each section usually focuses on a specific topic (the colors, the parts of the body, etc). Here, you just get a list of unrelated words. Often, a unifying thread helps the learner master new vocabulary. When there isn't one, such as in the case of this book, the process may become more difficult.
Book Description
Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern information age. James Essinger, a master story-teller, shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections (spanning two centuries and never investigated before) that the Jacquard loom kick-started a process of scientific evolution which would lead directly to the development of the modern computer. The invention of Jacquard's loom in 1804 enabled the master silk-weavers of Lyons to weave fabrics 25 times faster than had previously been possible. The device used punched cards, which stored instructions for weaving whatever pattern or design was required; it proved an outstanding success. These cards can very reasonably be described as the world's first computer programs. In this engaging and delightful book, James Essinger reveals a plethora of extraordinary links between the nineteenth-century world of weaving and today's computer age: for example, modern computer graphics displays are based on exactly the same principles as those employed in Jacquard's special woven tableaux. Jacquard's Web also introduces some of the most colourful and interesting characters in the history of science and technology: the modest but exceptionally dedicated Jacquard himself, the brilliant but temperamental Victorian polymath Charles Babbage, who dreamt of a cogwheel computer operated using Jacquard cards, and the imaginative and perceptive Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's only legitimate daughter.
Customer Reviews:
How an Idea can Change the World.......2007-04-21
Mr. Essinger's writing exceeded all expectation--he is a gifted teller of history and even more gifted at drawing out the threads of technological developments. It takes some time for the real changes of society to become apparent--indeed, my cell phone shares a name and essential function with a device invented over a hundred years ago but who would have thought that such a simple idea could so drastically change the world. The most engaging histories draw on unexpected sources to shed an unexpected light upon the events in question. James Burke was a master of this with his Connections series--think of Jacquard's Web as a more focused version of Burke's incredibly discursive journeys. No better example of the maxim, "a picture is worth a thousand words" comes to mind than the fascinating story of the picture that is found on the very first page of the story.
Essinger demonstrates how Mr. Jacquard's idea of using punched cards created a revolution. He compares and contrasts Jacquard's success with the failure of Charles Babbage by showing how an incremental technological advancement was necessary, i.e. Herman Hollerith's tabulator. But the story is basically familiar to most anyone who would be interested in this volume. Essinger excels at demonstrating the incredible importance of the personal traits of historical figures. Babbage's temper and inability to stick to his original idea killed his chance at demonstrating the power of his ideas. Hollerith's persistence, on the other hand, took a simple idea and polished it until its value was indisputable. It is a very sympathetic portrayal of a man, Babbage, who saw the promised land that he could never enter.
Frankly, it is impossible for this reviewer to adequately portray the power of Mr. Essinger's seemingly effortless ability to teach. This is that rare book that demands a quick trip to the bookstore or a check of that tempting box--"overnight delivery."
Highest Recommendation
Humanising the machine.......2006-01-18
James Essinger's book takes us on an amazing journey from Napoleonic France, through Victorian London and on to the otherwise bewildering offices of IBM and the other giants of the computer era.
On a basic level, this is a very readable history of computers, from the complexities of the modern era back through the stages that led to their invention - and then, most importantly, to the very roots of the idea - the first spark that lit a conflagration - in the mind of an otherwise obscure French silk weaver, Joseph-Marie Jacquard.
The book is far more than that, though. On another level, it is a series of brilliant recreations of the key stages in the computer's growth. We are zoomed into the frenetic world of Napoleonic Lyons; led by the writer's genteel hand into the polite salons of Victorian London and introduced to the likes of the Duke of Wellington and Ada Lovelace, daughter of none other than the great Byron, and then ushered on through the now rather wierd, geeky world of early-mid 20th century computerdom.
On yet another level, it does something that I feel needed doing for a long time. As an historian, and despite using them all the time, I had always felt computers were something rather alien, rather nasty. They're not things that you normally think about being rooted firmly in 18th and 19th century history. Yet here they are, in the true historical context, and suddenly a lot less scary.
What a wonderful read, for historian, computer-buff and any reader who delights in a cracking story grippingly told.
Jacquard's Web.......2005-11-10
Such an excellent book. So thrilling. And it kept being thrilling! From first paragraph to last, my attention never lagged. But this was more than that: a real, involving and compelling story about a Frenchman in the early 1800's whose innovation for weaving cloth on looms set into motion a chain of events which ends with the laptop on which I write this review. What an exciting author this man is; I found myself wondering, as I read, if he could make a treatise on a TELEPHONE BOOK interesting.
He's so expert at keeping your attention, keeping explanations simple, being fair-minded in lauding the accomplishments and pointing out the shortcomings of various individuals in his story, keeping a positivity overall, and infusing the reader with his own sense of wonder. One of the most exciting and moving portions of the book comes, actually, after it ends, in the first appendix. This is one of very few authors whose name I want to remember, to see what else he does with his gift of writing. Again, I cannot shake the feeling that he could make anything fascinating, as he's done such a monumental, stunning and moving job with this book. Recommended!!!
Great Work.......2005-03-14
I agree with the other reviewer who could not put this book down. An amazing work that shows how long the information age has really been around. Introduced me to Jacquard for the first time and what a great figure to remember. Shows how a great invention took years to come into existence and over hundreds of years how important various contributions were.
a Victorian computer revolution.............2004-11-30
No one could read the first chapter of this book and not finish it. In fact, I've just spent the past two days devouring it from start to finish. It's an entertaining fact-filled romp through the entire history of something that dominates our lives, and that we always think of as entirely modern... and yet the history this book traces goes back nearly 5,000 years.
What I liked best about it was the teasingly thought-provoking idea the author raises: that our computer age could have started over 150 years ago in Victorian England...
According to Jacquard's Web, the Victorian scientist Charles Babbage spent a lifetime building and refining metal calculating cogwheel machines or `engines' as Babbage called them. The working portions of the Engines he built worked perfectly. As Babbage's friend and colleague Ada Lovelace once said, it was the first time in history that `wheelwork' had been taught `to think'. But funding ran out and Babbage died never seeing his calculating engines come to fruition.
What I found so incredibly thought-provoking in this book was that in London in 1991 a perfectly working Difference Engine was built from Charles Babbage's plans and drawings. I have seen the Difference Engine in action myself (as the white-gloved engineer cranks the handle, the stacked columns of cogwheels spiral and coalesce beautifully as they perform their mathematical calculations) but I hadn't realised the significance at the time.
According to the author, James Essinger, if Babbage had found the funding to complete his Engines, computers could have come into widespread use in the nineteenth century. Now if that isn't a thought-provoking idea I don't know what is!
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