start hindi speak Hindi instantly no books no writing absolute confidence Akshay Bakaya

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1 start hindi speak Hindi instantly no books no writing absolute confidence Akshay Bakaya h

2 To find out more, please get in touch with us. For general enquiries and for information on Michel Thomas: Call: Fax: To place an order or find your nearest stockist: Call: Fax: You can write to us at: Hodder & Stoughton, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH Unauthorized copying of this booklet or the accompanying audio material is prohibited, and may amount to a criminal offence punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. First published in UK 2014 by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK Company, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH. Start Hindi Copyright 2014 in the methodology, Thomas Keymaster Languages LLC, all rights reserved; in the content, Akshay Bakaya. Tabla sequences by Prabhu Edouard All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or under licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Further details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited, Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS, UK. Typeset by Integra, India. Printed in Great Britain. Impression Year ISBN

3 Contents Welcome to the Michel Thomas Method 2 About Michel Thomas 4 Index to Start Hindi 5 English Hindi glossary 10

4 2 Welcome to the Michel Thomas Method Congratulations on purchasing a truly remarkable way to learn a language. With the Michel Thomas Method there s no reading, no writing and no homework. Just sit back, absorb, and soon you ll be speaking another language with confidence. The Michel Thomas Method works by breaking a language down into its component parts and enabling you to reconstruct the language yourself to form your own sentences and to say what you want, when you want. By learning the language in small steps, you can build it up yourself to produce ever more complicated sentences. In the French, German, Italian and Spanish Total courses, Michel Thomas himself teaches two students who have no previous knowledge of the language or, in the case of the Perfect courses, students who know only what they learned in the Total courses. You join in as the third student in Michel s class, and learn with them. The courses are unscripted: you hear the students progression in the studio from absolute beginners to confident speakers including their mistakes and Michel s subsequent corrections. The French, German, Italian and Spanish Vocabulary Builder + courses were devised after Michel s death by Dr Rose Lee Hayden, who worked closely with him in his language school in New York. The methodology is again cumulative, but in these courses it was decided that the teacher would be assisted by two native speakers in order to advance learners in their pronunciation as well as their vocabulary. The Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese and Russian Start, Total and Perfect courses were developed by the team at Hodder that produced Michel s original French, German, Italian and Spanish Total and Perfect

5 courses. The teachers, who are native speakers, or else are assisted by native speakers, similarly teach students with no previous knowledge of the language and carefully follow Michel Thomas s Method. The Arabic, Mandarin and Russian Vocabulary Builder + courses follow the same unscripted format, with the same teaching teams and students learning in the studio. 3 The key to your success in these all-audio courses is for you to understand what you learn, and then to internalize it. To do so, you must take an active part in the process. When the teacher asks, How do you say?, use your pause button to give yourself time to think out your answer and say it out loud (or in your head). Then release the pause button, and listen to the answer given on the recording. In this way you will experience a constant sense of progression, a constant sense of learning, that you will find exciting, stimulating and self-rewarding. Perfected over 25 years, the all-audio Michel Thomas Method has been used by millions of people around the world. Now it s your turn. To get started, simply insert your disc and press play!

6 4 About Michel Thomas Michel Thomas ( ) was a gifted linguist who mastered more than ten languages in his lifetime and became famous for teaching much of Hollywood s A list how to speak a foreign language. Film stars such as Woody Allen, Emma Thompson and Barbra Streisand paid thousands of dollars each for face-to-face lessons. Michel, a Polish Jew, developed his method after discovering the untapped potential of the human mind during his traumatic wartime experiences. The only way he survived this period of his life, which included being captured by the Gestapo, was by concentrating and placing his mind beyond the physical. Fascinated by this experience, he was determined that after the war he would devote himself to exploring further the power of the human mind, and so dedicated his life to education. In 1947, he moved to Los Angeles and set up the Michel Thomas Language Centers, from where he taught languages for over fifty years in New York, Beverly Hills and London. Michel Thomas died at his home in New York City on Saturday 8th January He was 90 years old.

7 Index to Start Hindi 5 English words used (relatively) unchanged in Hindi are not listed. Transliteration The Hindi is transliterated in this track listing, so that you can read it even if you don t know the Devanagari script. We ve used the following conventions: Final a in a word represents a long aa sound, and final i is a long ee (larka, boy ; bhi, also ). r represents a rolled r, as in Spanish or Italian. The double dot on the ï in naï indicates that the a and i should be pronounced separately. The apostrophe in shaa er ( poet ) indicates a break between aa and er. To show some sounds that don t exist in English we ve had to use some extra symbols: D ñ R T hard d, with the tongue bent upwards and backwards (technically called retroflex ) sign to indicate nasal sound (made through your nose); don t pronounce it as n a flapped sound, like in the US English pronunciation of the first t in Got it! hard t, with the tongue bent upwards and backwards (technically called retroflex ) Pausing your playing device During Tracks 2 and 3 (CD1), we provide short tabla sequences as cues to prompt you to pause your playing device while you work out your answer to the teacher s questions. From Track 4 onwards there are no more cues, but you should still pause your playing device while you work out your answers to the teacher s questions. CD1 Track 1 Introduction CD1 Track 2 Wow! Hey! (surprise) tea spiced tea Vaah! Arre! chaai masaala chaai

8 6 CD1 Track 3 you (familiar) tum yes haañ I, me mai word to indicate respect, added before yes ji: ji haañ, Gandhi ji and no and after names and titles you (polite) aap here yahaañ grandpa daada in me from se grandma daadi uncle, aunt (dad s brother, sister) chaacha, chaachi CD1 Track 4 what? there absolutely, of course no, not kya? vahaañ bilkul naheeñ CD1 Track 5 no (said fast) stop, enough! heart only one am I see! Really? naï bas! dil sirf ek hooñ Achha! Achha? CD1 Track 6 good very boy, girl achha bahott larka, larki CD1 Track 7 who? is, there is where? when? kaun? hai kahaañ? kab?

9 CD1 Track 8 tag question, word added to seek confirmation, like isn t it? don t you? etc. na? 7 CD1 Track 9 wanted, needed to (as in to John wanted = John wants ) expensive chahiye ko mehenga CD1 Track 10 to me (as in to me wanted = I want ) but mujh-ko lekin CD1 Track 11 milk washerman plate doodh dhobi thaali CD1 Track 12 we, us two and biscuit/s or ham do aur biskut ya CD1 Track 13 tomorrow today lentils yogurt drink kal aaj daal lassi CD2 Track 1 a bit of, a spot of sugar zara cheeni

10 8 CD2 Track 2 this, these that ye vo CD2 Track 3 the (...) one (who), this one, that one red small big, older bottle glass waala, waali laal chhota bara botal gilaas CD2 Track 4 my name friend son, daughter mera naam dost beta, beti CD2 Track 5 word placed before a statement to make it into a yes no question tired word placed at end of statement to confirm suspicion kya thaka kya CD2 Tracks 6, 7 American too, also Amriki, Amerikan bhi CD2 Track 8 now hot cold OK, fine ill, sick ab garam ThanDa Theek beemaar CD2 Track 9 are (for polite you, we and they ) both are (for familiar you ) haiñ dono ho

11 CD2 Track 10 he, she, they: close by; far away those ye; vo vo 9 CD2 Track 11 English (person) poet Angrez shaa er CD2 Track 12 Indian (person or thing) Hindustaani CD2 Track 13 Conclusion

12 10 English Hindi glossary English words used (relatively) unchanged in Hindi are not listed. fem. masc. feminine masculine Gender is not indicated for masculine nouns ending in -a and feminine nouns ending in -i. a, an [not used in Hindi] a bit of, a spot of zara absolutely bilkul also bhi am hooñ American Amriki, Amerikan and aur any [not used in Hindi phrases such 'Is there any tea?'] are (for familiar you ) ho are (for polite you, we and they ) haiñ aunt (dad s brother s wife) chaachi big biscuit/s both bottle boy but cold daughter don t you? etc. (tag question) English (person) enough! expensive fine friend from girl glass good grandma grandpa bara biskut (masc.) dono botal (fem.) larka lekin ThanDa beti na? Angrez bas! mehenga Theek dost (masc./fem.) se larki gilaas (masc.) achha daadi daada

13 he: close by; far away heart here Hey! (surprise) hot I see! Really? I ill in Indian is isn t it? etc. (tag question) it lentils me me, to (as in to me wanted = I want ) milk my name needed no (said fast) no, not now of course OK older one only or plate poet red she: close by; far away sick small son spiced tea ye; vo dil (masc.) yahaañ Arre! garam Achha! Achha? mai beemar me Hindustaani hai na? [not translated in phrases like 'I want it', 'it is expensive', 'who is it?'] daal (fem.) mai mujh-ko doodh (masc.) mera naam (masc.) chahiye naï naheeñ ab bilkul Theek bara ek sirf ya thaali shaa er (masc.) laal ye; vo beemaar chhota beta masaala chaai (fem.) 11

14 12 stop! sugar tag question, word added to seek confirmation, like isn t it? don t you? etc. tea that the the one (who) there there is these they: close by; far away this those tired to (as in to John wanted = John wants ) to me (as in to me wanted = I want ) today tomorrow too two uncle (dad s brother) us very wanted washerman we what? when? where? who? word placed before a statement to make it into a yes no question word to indicate respect, added before yes and no and after names and titles Wow! yes yes no question yogurt drink you (familiar) you (polite) bas! cheeni na? chaai vo [not used in Hindi] waala, waali vahaañ hai ye ye; vo ye vo thaka ko mujh-ko aaj kal bhi do chaacha ham bahott chahiye dhobi (masc.) ham kya? kab? kahaañ? kaun? kya ji: ji haañ, Gandhi ji Vaah! haañ place 'kya' before statement lassi (fem.) tum aap

15 Millions of people worldwide speak a new language thanks to the Michel Thomas Method. Here s what learners say about Michel Thomas: This guy is one of my heroes. What a legend. I love his method. Definitely the best way to learn. Just after a couple of days I m confident that I will be able to speak directly. It s the best way to learn a foreign language. Totally life changing. The Michel Thomas course is much the easiest to make progress with. He s the best. A truly inspirational way to learn a language. With Michel you learn a language effortlessly. h The nearest thing to painless learning. The Times