Course description
Beginning A (chapters 1-4)
Topics - meeting people, quality and quantity, locations, comparisons, etc.
Grammar and usage - Hindi script & sound system, personal pronouns, nouns, agreement of adjectives, postpositions, past tenses, on, gender (masculine & feminine), adjectives, verbs, possessive adjective, polite questions, the nominative, the accusative, prepositions, the present tense, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 5-9)
Topics - culture, 'want', 'can', transport, travel, seasons, weather, food, meals, telephone, directions, etc.
Grammar and usage - locative, dative, soft nouns, neuter nouns, feminine nouns, verb pairs, present & future tense, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 10-14)
Topics - giving instructions, shopping, tell the time, leisure, comparisons & preferences, etc.
Grammar and usage - the imperative, diminutives, plurals, plural adjectives, ordinal numbers, comparative adjectives, irregular comparatives, genitive, etc.
Beginning D (chapters 15-18)
Topics - work, living standard, pub & restaurant, street talk, etc.
Grammar and usage - reported speech, possessives, passive sentences, frequentatives, relatives, etc.
Intermediate and Advanced Classes
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us at our Los Angeles School.
Language Description
Hindi is the official language of India. It is written in the Devanagari alphabet employed for Sanskrit.
