Tuttle Pocket Hindi Dictionary
Richard Delacy
ISBN 10: 0804839611 ISBN 13: 9780804839617
Published by Tuttle Publishing, 2017
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From the author who brought us Hindi in a Flash, Richard Delacy now offers his expertise in teaching Hindi with a simple and portable guide, The Tuttle Pocket Hindi Dictionary. This book is the most up-to-date Hindi dictionary available today. English speakers new to learning Hindi and Hindi speakers alike will greatly benefit from this powerful pocket guide because it is designed with both of them in mind. Covering the 15,000 most common Hindi and English words, in a small, compact volume, this pocket dictionary is a convenient and lightweight reference work with bi-directional Hindi-English and English-Hindi sections. Whether you use Hindi for business, in an educational setting, or while you travel to India, the entries in this dictionary; along with incorporating Devanagari; cover all the contemporary terms and expressions used on a daily basis. Grammar basics and a pronunciation guide are also featured in the introduction.
About the Author: Richard Delacy has taught at several universities in Australia and the U.S. and currently teaches Hindi/Urdu at Harvard University. He completed a BA with Honors at the University of Melbourne in History and an MA in History from Monash University, with a focus on modern South Asian history and twentieth century Hindi/Urdu language and its literature. He studied Hindi formally for three years as a part of his BA and then spent a year in Delhi studying Hindi language and literature at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (Central Hindi Institute). He also taught Hindi at two universities in Melbourne for nearly six years before embarking on further studies in South Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Teach Yourself Beginner's Urdu Script (McGraw-Hill) and Hindi in a Flash (Tuttle) and coauthor of the Hindi, Urdu and Bengali Lonely Planet Phrasebook. He travels back to India as frequently as he can and has many close friends there.
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Title: Tuttle Pocket Hindi Dictionary
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New