Rosetta Stone for hindi

[Aishwarya4eva]

Bollyking please please please tell me where you downloaded it from! I can't find it anywhere and have been looking for ages!

[Moot]

Now I feel like a muppet.

I've just bought the Level 1 course. 

Still, it's a start and I'll happily donate it to whoever wants it when I'm done with it.  I should never do stuff without looking for a good answer here.

[Moot]

OK. First lesson done.  I'm clueless.

No English and all in Devanagari.

I enjoyed myself but I felt if I said "hai" at the end of every sentence, it would be ok.

I need a Snell. I think.

[someone]

OK. First lesson done.  I'm clueless.

No English and all in Devanagari.

I enjoyed myself but I felt if I said "hai" at the end of every sentence, it would be ok.

I need a Snell. I think.

Yea, I tried Rosetta once - it sucked. I've found the Pimsleur Series to be excellent for improving verbal skills, both hearing and speaking, in other languages. Snell with Pimsleur and of course, the steady staple of Hindi movies, especially old ones which are devoid of Hinglish, should make for an excellent combo. The key with Pimsleur is to pay attention and listen carefully in a quiet place, for maximum retention.

[Aishwarya4eva]

I used Snell and it's probably the most efficient. Rosetta Stone for Hindi is really flawed. Some of the pronunciations are way off from what I've observed, but the Devanagari is okay.

[Moot]

I used Snell and it's probably the most efficient. Rosetta Stone for Hindi is really flawed. Some of the pronunciations are way off from what I've observed, but the Devanagari is okay.

You have to remember I've never done this. Have no Hindi friends except those of you (bless you) who can.  And Devanagari as the only script.... 30 minutes for my first lesson.  Yeah right. 3 hours for a guessing idiot like me. I think I've nailed cycle, bread, sandwich, coffee and car.

I've ordered the Snell course. 

I've picked up a few words (phonetically) but I'm groping with making sense.

It'll be a long time until I achieve my goal of watching a film without subtitles.

I think it'll be a long time before they make a film with a fish driving a car, eating an apple and going to get a paper.  With coffee and a cat swimming.

If they do, you'll find me.  I'll be the the one calling your dad a lightshade.

[AfgJasmine16]

Hi Moot! I Think if you used TY Hindi along with Rosetta Stone, you will be amazing in Hindi. I've done this same thing. Rosetta Stone works best when used with a textbook course because it will enforce everything you are learning with no English translations. Which is the most imporant thing in Learning. My teach used Rosetta Stone with me in ESL and it worked very very well but I also had a textbook along with it. Rosetta Stone will teach things a lot faster, but a Textbook will explain grammtical things. For example, in Rosetta Stone the first thing you learn in Rosetta Stone is continious verbs like "ladki chal rahi hai" (the girl is walking). Where in a Texbook you won't learn this till chapter five, but in the beggining of a Textbook you will learn, "Hi, how are you?" type things. Rosetta Stone tries to teach like an Infant would their own langauge. It works but I think only if you use a textbook along with it  Also rosetta stone is great listening practice and reading practice. I learned Devanagari from Rosetta Stone    

[James]

Moot, I hope you didn't become discouraged.  I've learnt French all of my life, and while I love the language, it sure is annoying how many exceptions there are to grammar rules and how the majority of verbs follow no particular pattern in conjugation and how they must be learned individually or in little groups of 5-6 verbs.  The fact that so much vocabulary is shared between English and French (with a different accent) wasn't as much of an aid as I would have thought it would be.

Hindi, by contrast, is not like that at all.  The grammar is very regular.  Indeed, it's been simplified because it played the role of a sort of lingua franca in North India.  The number of verbs that are conjugated irregularly can be counted on two hands.  I've even spoken to francophones who learned Hindi in university and even they said it was easier than learning French. 

I admit that I was daunted myself when first learning to read and write Hindi, which was the first thing I did when I became interested in the language.  At that point in time, I was unaware of the resources compiled on this forum and had a friend teach me.  It was a blessing insofar as I had someone right there to answer questions, but also a curse because the instruction was not very systematic.  Once you get past the script, though, as a language, I think Hindi is not very difficult to learn.

The main difference is that Hindi operates on a subject+object+verb paradigm, which was very confusing for me initially, but once you wrap your mind around that, I think it's not so hard.  I hope you've stayed the course?

For Hindi script, are you aware of this online resource?  I think it's excellent and wish I had had it way back when.  I second the recommendation of the Snell books.  Also, Usha Jain has written some excellent grammars, as well.

[antlerbaby]

Rosetta Stone for Hindi was absolutely vital to my learning how to read & get started. The only thing about it is it is BORING... snoring boring... bilkul boring. The best thing to do, and this is as of October 2011, is get an online subscription. I had both the box set and government online access. In comparison it was easier, less "buggy" and more convenient to do it online than with the installed disk on my home computer.

There are three levels of Hindi and it takes about a month to complete a level. The online access is 199 for three months so it is possible for you to complete the full 400 dollar boxed course for only 199, a great deal for the diligent.

http://www.rosettastone.com/learn-hindi

The Urdu edition is also something I've completed through government access. There is only one level, so the value for a subscription isn't as great. For some reason they talk much slower and the content is basically the same as the Hindi course. Another downside is that the script used isn't authentic Pakistani style nastaliq, it's just the same script they use for their Farsi/Dari/Pashto programs.

http://www.rosettastone.com/learn-urdu