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Title: Hindi asan nahii hai.....
Review: I picked this book up by accident. I had planned on getting a foreign language book to read in my spare time, I had planned on getting Arabic, but I somehow purchased this one. It caught my attention and kept it though.Despite my preconceptions Hindi is very simple to understand on a basic level, their are no tones, clicks or other oddities. Their is wide use of nasalized sounds, but anyone who has taken French would not have a problem with it. The real problem is how colloquial everything is. Every conversation uses words that a common person would use to speak with their friends. This isn't a problem at first, but when one looks at the sentence structure they began to wish that things would be easier. Their is very little info on things that would help a traveller to India in it, and I assume it was written for Americans or English who have Hindi speaking relatives who want to learn.
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