Outline of Hindi Grammar: With Exercises |
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Ronald Stuart McGregor
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Pages: 336 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0198700083
Pub: Oxford University Press
Pub date: 1995-11-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 230721
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Excellent Hindi teaching grammar (5/5 people found this helpful)
This is an excellent teaching grammar (i.e. a traditional textbook) of Hindi, containing enough information for it to be used also as a reference grammar. It has a key to the exercises, and is clear enough to be used by the independent student (like myself). The current edition now has a guide to handwriting, something oddly absent both from earlier editions and from many other Hindi guides. Vocabulary tends to include both 'Hindustani' words (words common to Hindi and Urdu) and words of Sanskrit origin that form the higher register of Hindi - for example, two words for 'book' are included, Hindi/Urdu 'kitab' (from Arabic) and Hindi 'pustak' (from Sanskrit). There are periodic revision tests. The latter are tied in also to the cassette tape that can be bought with the grammar: The tape itself, while of sadly poor reproduction quality, is most useful to someone wanting to use the Outline of Hindi Grammar as their only book (tho' I think I'd recommend using a book and tape with a more communicative approach to supplement the grammar, perhaps Snell's 'Teach Yourself Hindi' or some 'quick and easy' book, as speech patterns tend to differ somewhat from the written language).
A useful - if VERY hard-to-find - supplement to this book is "Urdu Study Materials for Use with 'Outline of Hindi Grammar'". This contains information on the Urdu script, lists Urdu , gives Urdu versions of the chapter vocabularies and the exercises and has full Urdu-English and English-Urdu vocabularies at the end. It allows one to learn both dialects, Hindi and Urdu, together, or to add Urdu later once one has mastered Hindi, with the minimum of effort.
To those who know Middle Eastern languages, I'd say the "Outline of Hindi Grammar" book is similar to Haywood and Nahmad's "New Arabic Grammar" and slightly clearer than Lambton's "Persian Grammar". Interestingly, these two are given as references in the "Urdu Study Materials" volume. It's much clearer than MacDonell's "A Sanskrit Grammar for Students"
a very good book (3/4 people found this helpful)
this grammar is excellent, both short and exhaustive. Explanations are clear. a referential grammar book.
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