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Namaste,

Mera naam Kjell hai. Aap kaise hain?

I'm trying to learn Hindi. I found a lot of sites with helpful things like the devanagari script and some basic sentences.

I just don't know how to pronounce the words, so I'm looking for someone who wants to help me.

These are some sites which I used:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/hindi.htm

http://taj.chass.ncsu.edu//lessons.html

http://www.shabdkosh.com/

http://home.unilang.org/courses/hindi/index.htm

http://www.websters-dictionary-online.org/translation/Hindi/

http://www.open-of-course.org/courses/mod/resource/view.php?id=93

The last one has a lot of useful sentences, i believe.

Looking forward to some reply(ies)

Kjell

I can help you out in the pronunciations. Just let me know whenever you need help.!

Miss Kjell, I too would be very willing to help you out. Do let me know.

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Have been busy at work. I would really appreciate your help. Thanks again Kjell

hi it will be a pleasure for me that i cn help a person........

Namaste,

It seems like we always miss each other. Whenever i'm online, nobody else is there.

For those who still would like to help me learn Hindi, i suggest we meet at a certain time on msn or yahoo or gmail or skype or ...

Right now, i don't have a job so i'll be online on msn almost every day, usually the whole day and evening.

Send me an e-mail here at voxswap and i'll give you my id (i'm not allowed to post it here)

Thanks a lot in advance for the help !

Take care !

Greetz

Kjell

Hi Kjell,

Namaste!

I am glad to see you are learning hindi. The sites you are going through are good. I will be happy to help you in case of doubts. There are lot of people willing to help Hindi learners. You could post your doubts here and we can help you with it. Happy Learning!

I would like to share about History of Hindi Language

Although Hindi ranks fifth among the world's languages, it is the language of only one third of India's population. In southern India, where the languages are as different from Hindi as English is from Japanese, scores of people died in 1965 protesting the government's attempt to convert them to Hindi. Today, Hindi's official status continues in limbo.

Like most northern Indian languages, Hindi is descended from Sanskrit, the Asian cousin of Latin and Greek. Originating as a trade jargon which became current after the Muslim conquest of Delhi in the 12th century, it was used in the cities and the army camps and was known as Urdu, which meant "camp." For centuries, it coexisted with innumerable other dialects, absorbing many Persian and Arabic words during the Mogul period (1526-1707). These conditions continued through the early years of the British regime, until 1835, when a popular form of the trade jargon was developed as a standard language through a teaching program for British civil servants. Known interchangeably as Urdu or Hindustani, it was used by the schools and the government, although English still dominated. Hindus would not accept Urdu for other than official purposes, because, written in Arabic script, it represented the religion of Mohammed. A new literary prose style, Hindi, emerged, written in the Devanagari script of Sanskrit, and many Persian and Arabic words were replaced by Sanskrit words. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, special societies were formed for the propagation of Hindi in devanagari script and Hindi schools. In 1947, with independence from Britain and partitioning, Hindi and Urdu, essentially the same language, Hindustani, became the official languages of India and Pakistan, respectively. Under pressure from Hindu extremists, a special committee was appointed to purge Hindi of foreign words and create new Sanskrit-derived words, 300,000 of which were needed to bring Hindi into the 20th century. In place of "station," they recommended the absurdly long, synthetic agnirathyantraviramshan, which means literally "resting place for a chariot run by fire." Hindi is still a long way from standardization.