Whether it is spirituality, food, art, architecture or industry that have led you to want to learn Hindi, Hindi is a great language to speak and the learning process doesn't have to be difficult.
This blog mainly uses transliterations, which of course don’t teach you how to pronounce the words - we suggest you download a Hindi podcast from ITunes on your phone for practising or else bring the words to your Superprof tutor and seeing if he is a true contributor to your struggle to understand Hindi by speaking these words out loud for you. You need to learn not just the Hindi alphabet and pronunciation, but all the grammar rules such as the different verb tenses, how to make an adjective agree with a noun and proper sentence structure.īut to get you started with the Hindi language, here is some basic Hindi vocabulary, expressions, words and phrases that are useful when going to Delhi or looking for the Hindu temple of Galtaji (dedicated to the monkey god Hanuman). Obviously, learning Hindi takes a long time. Hindi is an Indo-European language, meaning that many words come from the same root as English! And yet the language has evolved so much, from Sanskrit to Prakrit to Khariboli to Hindi, alas, we now cannot do without an English to Hindi Dictionary.Īs an official language of India (next to Tamil, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu and many others), Hindi is native to northern India and Pakistan (where the Hindustani language or dialect is called Urdu and written with an Arabic script rather than the Hindi Devanagari alphabet.)