Conversational Hindi Urdu

✍ Scribed by Gumperz John.

• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Publisher: University of California
Date: 1962
Pages: 218 + 256

In foreign language learning it is too often overlooked that language is a part of culture, and that linguistic patterns convey important information about the modes of thought and way of life of the people who use the language. To teach these patterns without reference to the locale and the social context in which they are used is to neglect an important aspect of their meaning and a useful tool of area instruction. This is especially true for a country such as India, where the surroundings are so unfamiliar that the student cannot easily visualize them. To teach a student Hindi without reference to the contexts in which it is actually used is to make him less able to use it effectively when he arrives in India.
This book attempts to remove this deficiency by combining the conversation and drill techniques of a spoken language course with color slide sequences photographed in India. As he hears the language spoken, the student simultaneously observes the social situations and localities in which the encounters on which the conversations in this book are based take place.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Хинди, урду