Learn Hindi - Survival Phrases Hindi, Volume 1: Lessons 1-30

Absolute Beginner Hindi #1

De: Innovative Language Learning

Narrado por: HindiPod101.com

Start speaking Hindi in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Survival Phrases - Hindi, a completely new way to learn Basic Hindi fast! Survival Phrases - Hindi will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and prepare you with cultural insight, travel tips and other information to utterly shock and amaze your friends and family, travel companions and people you meet along the way.

Are you about to travel to India? Do you need basic Hindi and proper etiquette for business reasons? Do you have a Hindi speaking partner, family or friends? Are you a fan of Indian films, culture, or history, and want to start learning the Hindi language? Whatever your reasons are, we've designed Survival Phrases - Hindi with YOU in mind, so that you will get immensely satisfying results FAST.

These 30 short and effective audio lessons will allow you to:

• Speak Hindi before the end of your first lesson
• Use your newly learned Hindi in everyday situations
• Understand the culture, customs, and people of India
• Order the food you want in restaurants
• Ask directions and travel by taxi, train, bus and car with confidence
• Master manners, etiquette, and customs so you don't embarrass yourself
• Visit or host Indian guests with confidence
• Introduce yourself, friends, and family
• Learn to ask for help and avoid danger and tourist traps
• Learn travel tips and the "do's" and "don'ts" from the experienced host

This is NOT a vocabulary builder with just words and their translations. Unlike other audiobooks, we actually TEACH Hindi and Indian culture. Each lesson is TAUGHT by a professional, bi-lingual teacher! Listen to the preview now! Features:

• 30 audio lessons with key phrases, vocab, cultural insight, and practice
• Over two hours!
• Downloadable lesson notes corresponding to each lesson, 50+ pages
• View phrases and vocab on your iPod or iPhone in minutes!

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2011 Innovative Language Learning, LLC (P)2011 Innovative Language Learning, LLC

Wish I knew you can get this for free

So I'm kicking myself for actually paying for this item. You can get the exact same course for free via podcast on iTunes and I do mean the exact same thing.

While the content of this course is nice, and broken down into extremely short manageable pieces, which is a great plus for any language learning course, the narrator reading it is so awkward sounding. She is speaking so slowly that it could be considered painful and this isn't just when she is speaking Hindi, but also when she speaks English. This is maybe around 60-70 wpm. Which is extremely slow for a native English speaker.

On the flip side the time they give you to respond to her questions is extremely short, in fact for myself an intermediate level speaker who can speak some of these phrases at a rather fast clip it is way to fast to say more than four words.

Overall I would say that the information itself is why I rated this so high, not the narration, not the price (because as I mentioned you can get this for free), but at least if you don't have an iPod this is a rather cheap course to purchase.

Good basics for the traveler

Well organized, discusses colloquial as well as formal usage, useful basic words and phrases, and clear pronunciation.