The following are the best resources for this dive, broken down by beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
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BBC Guide to Hindi
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The BBC Guide to Hindi language provides great facts about the language.
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
Anil Mehato
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If you are planning to visit India and want to grasp some of the basics of Hindi to converse with locals, Anil Mehato videos are very helpful. He teaches Hindi through interactive conversations with tourists in a really wonderful way to learn the basics.
Category: Video
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
Basic Hindi
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Great book for beginners. It explains the Hindi alphabets, sentence structure, and grammar. It also focuses on how to practice writing Devanagari letters.
Category: Textbooks
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Break Diving’s Hindi Fluency Project
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The Hindi Fluency Project is a program of Break Diving (this website). We all work together to improve our foreign language skills in hundreds of languages. Visit www.breakdiving.org for more information about our not-for-profit corporate mission, and then visit breakdiving.io to join our inspiring worldwide community! We look forward to meeting you.
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Clozemaster
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Clozemaster helps you to learn language in context. According to Clozemaster, learning a language through mass exposure to vocabulary in context is one of the best ways to build proficiency. The site/app uses well-structured fill-in-the-blanks and spaced repetition to ensure you retain new words.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Devanagari Keyboard
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This is a very helpful keyboard if you want to practice writing Hindi online.
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Duolingo
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Duolingo is a popular language-learning platform that includes both a website and a mobile app. It offers over 94 different language courses, including Hindi. Duolingo teaches the basics of Hindi, including some basic vocabulary and grammar. However, there is no way you will truly learn a language through Duolingo. It is best used as an introduction to a language and as a refresher to keep your skills up and to potentially build some new vocabulary. Note: their podcast on Apple Podcasts is excellent!
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Forvo
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Forvo is a fascinating tool that shows how words are pronounced in various foreign languages. Just type the word you’re looking for into the Forvo search bar, and voilà, you’ll hear it spoken by multiple native speakers. This is excellent for pronunciation. Note: it will take you a few minutes to figure out how the tool works, but it's worth spending a few minutes to master how it works.
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Glossika
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Glossika improves your fluency through a highly repetitive ‘listen and repeat’ approach. It uses an adaptive learning algorithm and structured content to help you improve. Definitely not a conventional course but you’ll be amazed at how effective it is at improving your fluency if you use it daily.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
HindiPod101
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This is a popular Hindi course that includes downloadable podcast-styled lessons, videos, grammar explanations, and a vocabulary database and dictionary. Premium members gain access to PDF lessons, grammar reviews, dialogue audio, and interactive learning.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Internet Polyglot
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Internet Polyglot is an awesome site that offers a huge variety of free games to help you improve your Hindi vocabulary.
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Language Drops
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Language Drops is a language-learning website/app with a colorful layout that's a lot of fun. Teaching solely vocabulary (which is unique in itself), Drops starts with basic vocab and expands to offer highly advanced vocab beyond the scope of most other courses and books. For example: spaceship, garlic, riot police, and political coup. Note: unless you pay, you are limited to 5 minutes per day. If you can afford it, upgrade to the lifetime plan. Or, just be sure to do your 5 minutes every single day.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Learning Hindi
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Learning Hindi is great for beginners to start with. The detailed explanations of the letters and sounds makes the Hindi learning journey more efficient.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Mango
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Mango Languages helps you to study foreign languages by adapting to how you learn using smart technology. Compare your own recordings with those of native speakers. Mango also gives tips on Hindi culture.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Memrise
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A language-learning website/app that uses repetition and proven memory techniques to help you learn faster. Good for getting started and learning vocabulary. They also offer native speaker videos which are often pretty cool.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
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