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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] ="The Great Glossary Fair," through which we all help each other: [on this site] =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] =The sophisticated "Malhar"
materials,
with lovely Devanagari fonts, for advanced reading and language
learning,
prepared by Prof. Peter Hook: [site] =The Bible in Hindi:
beautiful script, and it's interesting to see how they translate
things: [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] =Dudney, Arthur, "Keeping the Magic Alive: How Devakanandan Khatri's Chandrakanta, the First Hindi Best-seller, Navigates Modernity and the Fantastical" (2009): [on this 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] =BBC Hindi homepage: [site] =Voice of America Hindi homepage: [site] =India Today's Hindi edition: [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
sources: =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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