Hindi in a Flash Kit Volume 1 (Tuttle Flash Cards)

These cards are high quality, durable, accurate (confirmed by my native Hindi-speaking boyfriend) and very helpful. The CD is indispensable for learning to pronounce words, and the sentences are SO helpful for getting a basic handle on Hindi grammar and syntax. These cards were more fun to use and taught me more applicable Hindi than the workbook I bought. The example sentences are largely sentences you will actually use in regular conversations, and for me at least they helped me understand basic Hindi grammar much better than workbook activities. These will be the best tool in your language learning toolkit!

I like it to get my 6 yr old to a good start. She finds these cards interesting and is eager to learn the meaning to each word! They are still off with meaning on some words because it's hard to translate colloquial hindi with the exact English sentence, but it's ok. It's not a problem since I speak fluently. They've only given 4 alternate ways to say /use the words, when many more combinations are possible.Since few hindi learning books are available in the US, this is great even though its geared towards adults. Of course I'm not a hindi professor or a hindi newsreader so its fun getting back to the basics. I try to make it fun for my daughter by reading her hindi children stories daily so she understands the thought and text formation intuitively. These flash help only if there is a fluent hindi speaker/reader helping the student. I bought the other hindi books by this author as well.

This is, probably, one of the best products on the market for learning Hindi vocabulary. For me it works much better than electronic word lists, such as BYKI, etc. The typographic quality is excellent, and it includes the card index in both sequential and Hindi alphabetic order.To use this product fully a person has to know the Devanagari script and the basics of Hindi grammar, which is required to understand the related expressions and sentences demonstrating the word use.The card words are selected thoughtfully and will help serious language learners. Adjectives, and often verbs, are given in pairs of opposites, which is very helpful. And many related words, such as some synonyms, are very useful as well, although many synonyms, such as 3 for "sky" and 4 for "but" can be confusing because there is no way to figure out which ones are more common since it's not clear in which order they are listed. There are some repetitions and redundancies, but, in general, one can expect to learn 3 times more words than given in the card index.Some expressions are very useful as well, but not as much as the words themselves. The main sentence on the back of each card is simple, but very common in every day use. They also demonstrate the basic use of Hindi tenses. More variety for similar words, such as days of the week, would be beneficial. Most idioms and proverbs have little relevance for a beginner.Also, most verb cards contain compound verbs, which are extremely common in Hindi, and which meanings in many cases don't differ from those of single verbs. Again, it can be confusing for the beginner to select what to learn and use. And to appreciate this information adequate knowledge of grammar is required.And, the last, the set certainly emphasises the verb learning, which, along with with the verbal and sentence structure, determines the mastery any language.So, overall, the set is very useful, for both beginner and intermediate Hindi learners. And I am really looking forward to see Volume II.

I really like these cards. They are filled with useful "extended" vocab and grammar that builds on the base word. I'm a beginner with the language and found it useful. However, I do get somewhat bored simply going through card after card, and it's difficult to carry them all with only one ring to hold so many cards.

This is a nice improvement over the old edition, which had errors in the text. But the gloss coating makes the cards slippery and hard to shuffle. The big drawback to these cards is that the vocabulary seems to have been chosen at random. You won’t learn 400 words that you need to read a newspaper or understand Bollywood films. But they’re still good for practicing reading and writing.

I am so glad that the cards mainly use the Hindi script, I get really frustrated trying to learn and being coddled with English approximations for Hindi sounds.There are so many words here, and each word card has related words to learn. I've just finished learning all the main words, but now I can go back and learn all the associated words.Many of the cards also have idioms and native phrases that are great to learn.Every word is put into an example sentence.I have never seen flashcards so complete with everything you could want.I really wish they would come out with a Hindi Vol. 2 now!

Easy to use, good quality and portable, far less daunting than the dense Rupert Snell books which seem to be targeted for adult learners. I bought these to help my 14 yo son develop his Hindi reading and comprehension skills. We’re just on the first stack but so far we’ve found them very useful. Each card has a main word and a few related words in Devanagari (Hindi script) on the front, with meaning and context on the back, in romanised Hindi and English. My son already reads basic Hindi but this format seems to be helping with comprehension. Brilliant for short bursts of learning, to keep it fun and interesting.

These are great, I can’t add more to what others have said about their efficacy.But pleease, on future reprinting punch the hole in the right place. On the key ring you have to read them backwards, which isn’t intuitive and is awkward. I’m borrowing a hole punch to punch a whole load more holes on the opposite corners.

Excellent.These are wonderful and I would really like to listen to the lessons on the DVD but have no CD reproducer nor do any of my friends.It seems that DVD reproducers are not so common nowlPLEASE PLEASE can you please send me a digital version in MP3 of the recordings on the CD.Please be so kind as to help.

I got these three years ago but haven't really tried them. My fault.

Excellent product. Easy to use and you can take them anywhere! If you want to learn how to read Hindi, this is a great starting point.

Brilliant flash cards that I recommend to anyone who is learning hindi, ive been using mine for a couple of years now!

Perfect - i love that there is also a spelling of the hindi word in english alphabet

I bought this book along with the Read and Write Hindi Script, one month ago. Today I can read the Hindi text on the flash cards, even though I don't have all the words memorized yet. Along with Essential Hindi (Tuttle) to actually learn sentence structure, I am very happy with my progress in a short time.

Benutze ich hin und wieder. Gefällt mir sehr gut. Kann ich gerne weiter empfehlen. Praktisch auch abends im Bett, um auf einfach Weise, seicht und leicht zu üben. Gute Wörter, viele Beispiele

Buena calidad. Muy practico. Las he llevado a todos los sitios en el bolso. Es exactamente lo que me esperaba.

Using this to teach my children Hindi. The initial results are very positive. Have been using this for the past one month and I can see that their vocabulary has increased.Highly Recommended

Sehr praktisch zum Erlernen der Vokabeln ....

Perfecto

Excellent

Everything went well. Just would have loved to have the phonetique Under the first face of the card. It just means I will have to work more on my reading.