From the Jacket

Hindi is one of the world's main languages, with over 650 million speakers in India, an millions more on every continent. These are many primers that teach children who can already speak Hindi-how to read and write their language. As the title Hindi Teacher or English Speaking People suggests. Dr. Ratnakar Narale ha written this book with a different audience in mind: English speakers of all ages who want to learn Hindi from scratch. This audience includes many kinds of people: the inhabitants of non-Hindi-speaking parts of India: Canadians. Americans, and West Indians whose ancestors came from India, but whose first language is English.

This logically arranged book is filled with virtually thousand of examples, and each dialogue is designed with the view of its practical value for the targeted people. Along the way. Hundreds of new words and the frequent exercises let the student learn to speak and write Hindi sentences almost without much effort. This practical 'Teach Yourself' manual closes with exercises in correcting faulty sentences, reading dialogues, telling the time, and writing letters. There are also useful lists of proverbs. Synonyms and antonyms, and so on.

Dr. Narale has been careful to draw most of the examples from words and concepts that are familiar to Westerners. This emphasizes that Hindi is a world language, and not merely an Indian one. Truly practical. Compre-hensive and easy to understand reference manual for classroom study to learn HINDI.

About the Author

Ratnakar Narale M. Sc. (Pune). Ph. D. (IIT, Kharagpur) comes from Nagpur in central India. From childhood he has had a passion for Indian history and Sanskrit. He has Ph. D. in Sanskrit from the Kalidas Sanskrit University.

From last few years Dr. Ratnakar has retired from his business of computers to write books on subjects that interest him. His current publications are Gita Darshan, Gita ka Shabdakosh, Savistar Hindi Gita, Sanskrit Teacher for English Speaking People and Hindi Teacher for English Speaking People. His upcoming books in English, include Adhyatmagitta, Savistar Satyanarayana Katha and History of the Hindu people

He can speak Marathi, Hindi Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu and Sanskrit languages. He taught Advanced Hindi to the International MBA class, at the York University, Toronto Currently he teaches University, Toronto. Currently he teaches Hindi for the Toronto School Board. He chairs the Sanskrit Vidya Parishad and teaches Sanskrit and Gita at the Hindu Institute of Learning, Toronto, of which he is the Principal. He is a director of the he is the Principal. He is a director of the International Foundation for the Vedic Seience and the Vedic Heritage Study Center. Toronto

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Foreword

Hindi is one of the world's main languages, with over 650 million speakers in India, and millions more on every continent. There are many primers that teach children who can already speak Hindi-how to read and write their language. As the title Hindi Teacher for English Speaking People suggests, Dr. Ratnakar Narale has written this book with a different audience includes many kinds of people: the inhabitants of non-Hindi-speaking parts of India, Canadians, Americans, and West Indians whose ancestors came from India, but whose first language is English; and many others who have no personal connection to India, but who are interested in Hindi for business purposes, scholarly reasons, or the pleasure of studying a new language.

Hindi Teacher for English Speaking People is logically arranged. It begins by giving students a thorough grounding in the Devanagari script. The characters in taught according to their shape rather than in the usual alphabetical order. This novel method helps learners to keep straight different characters that resemble one another. Direction are given are given on both the pronunciation and the formation of each character, and there is plenty of opportunity to practise reading and writing them. At first, Hindi words are transcribed into the Roman alphabet. As the student learns more and more, however, the transliteration becomes redundant, and its is dispensed with. By the time the learner finishes the first part of the book, he or she will have mastered the vowel, consonants, and conduct characters of Devanagi along the way, the exercises provide a basic vocabulary of several dozen words.

Then comes a section teaching the Hindi numerals, followed by the core of the book, a thorough exposition of Hindi grammar laid out in a systematic order. At each stage, Dr. Narale reminds readers of the principles of English grammar laid out in a systematic order. At each stage, Dr. Narale reminds readers of the principles of English grammar before introducing the corresponding Hindi forms, along the way, hundreds of new words are introduced, and the frequent exercises let the student learn to speak and write Hindi sentences almost without knowing them. Hindi Teachers for English Speaking People closes with exercises in correcting faulty sentences, reading dialogues, telling the time, and writing letters. There are also useful lists of proverbs synonyms and antonyms, and so on, a section on words that resemble each other and hence are easily confused is especially helpful.

Dr. Narale has been careful to draw most of the examples in his book from words and concepts that are familiar to Westerners. This emphasizes that Hindi is a world language, and not merely an Indian one. At the same time, Hindi Teacher or English Speaking People does not shirk the task of introducing some aspects of the culture in which the Hindi language developed. For example, one reading exercise not only provides practice in Devanagari, 'The Hindi World' discusses the Hindi-speaking people of India, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname and Fiji.

Hindi Teacher for English Speaking People may be used either as a classroom text under the guidance of a teacher, or by students who are studying Hindi on their own. It represents hundreds of hours of careful though and hard effort by Dr. Ratnakar Narale, who is to be felicitated for his work. I heartily commend this book to any person who already knows English and wishes to learn Hindi.