Hindi-English/English-Hindi Dictionary & Phrasebook

By Todd Scudiere

Book Overview

Includes over 4,000 dictionary entries and a handy phrasebook that covers transportation, dining, shopping, and more. Ideal for tourists, students, and business travelers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781809835
• ISBN13: 9780781809832
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Learning Tool

I bought this item for my new student from India to use on class assignments. He actually spends his time reading it as well and is learning English in leaps and bounds.

Very good book but...

This is a great book. It has many useful entries with helpful phrases for a tourist as well as a brief covering of basic grammar points. Also it contains a dictionary with over 3,000 entries. These are in English-Hindi and Hindi-English and do include the transliteration in alphabetical order based on the English alphabet. This is VERY helpful for a learner. One thing I might mention though, and what is keeping me from giving this 5 stars is the fact that when I looked up a simple word just to see how the dictionary was, I was shocked to discover that there was no word for friend. Not "mitr" or "dost" nor was the word "friend" listed in the English-Hindi section. This I found to be rather peculiar. That is a very common word which one would think would be included. Overall though, I would suggest getting this book. There are plenty of other useful entries and helpful little tidbits that a tourist or someone learning the language could make use of, even if you won't know how to call someone friend :p

Concise guide to Hindi grammar, dictionary, phrasebook

I went to the same University of Wisconsin India program that Todd Scudiere graduated from, so I can attest to the quality of his prior training. I think this is a great pocket Hindi reference, but no substitute for proper language training. The vocabulary and phrase collections are very good and accompanied by devanagari script and Roman transliteration. I am currently using the book to develop a set of Hindi flashcards. To go further than this you will need the Oxford Hindi-English-Hindi dictionaries and a good course such as "Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)." It is really tough learning how to make some of the consonant sounds just from a book or CD.

Very Helpful

I purchased this for a co-worker who is struggling to adapt to English. She has found this very helpful.