---
title: Hindi
description: This language study introduces the Devanagari script, grammar, and vocabulary of Hindi. Learners will develop foundational reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills necessary for daily communication and understanding contemporary Indian culture.
category: languages
subcategory: asian-languages
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/hindi
---

# Hindi

This language study introduces the Devanagari script, grammar, and vocabulary of Hindi. Learners will develop foundational reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills necessary for daily communication and understanding contemporary Indian culture.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 1 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Pimsleur Hindi

Learn Hindi effectively with Pimsleur's proven method. Start speaking Hindi confidently today!

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.pimsleur.com/learn-hindi

**Tags:** hindi, audio-course, spoken-hindi, listening-practice

## Podcasts

### 1. HindiPod101

**Author:** HindiPod101.com

Learn Hindi fast, easy and at your own pace with HindiPod101.com Audio Podcasts and Videocasts. **--- Free Lifetime Account and password protected iTunes lesson feed available at HindiPod101.com ---** ... NOW OVER --- 101,000,000 --- Language Lessons downloaded so far and Brian Heater of  -- PC Magazine -- says \"These podcasts offer a painless and FREE way to bone up on the language and culture in a relevant, real world way that you won't get in a class room or on a CDROM.\"  You get comprehensive, easy to use lessons that make learning Hindi fun for anyone. Each audio podcast...

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.hindipod101.com

**Tags:** hindi, language-learning, audio-lessons, listening-practice

## Websites

### 1. LingQ

**Author:** Steve Kaufmann

Reading and listening platform where learners import or choose texts with audio, look up unknown words inline and track vocabulary as it moves from new to known. It supports daily comprehensible-input practice and steady vocabulary growth across dozens of languages.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.lingq.com/

**Tags:** comprehensible-input, extensive-reading, vocabulary-acquisition, listening-practice

## Youtubes

### 1. Learn Hindi with Anil Mahato

**Author:** Anil Mahato

Anil Mahato's YouTube channel is one of the most structured free Hindi resources for English speakers, with 850+ video lessons spanning grammar, conversational Hindi, Devanagari script, and cultural context. The teaching style is methodical and explicit, building Hindi piece by piece in a way few free Hindi resources manage. Frequently cited across Hindi-learner communities as the go-to starting point.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/c/AnilMahato

**Tags:** hindi, devanagari, hindi-grammar, video-lessons

## Books

### 1. Teach Yourself Hindi

**Author:** Rupert Snell, Simon Weightman

A self-study Hindi course built around dialogues following a Delhi family through everyday situations. Covers the Devanagari script, core grammar, and everyday vocabulary, leaving the reader able to read, write, and hold basic conversations in Hindi.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071420126?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, languages, asian-language

### 2. Colloquial Hindi

**Author:** Tej K. Bhatia

Routledge's beginner course by a Syracuse linguistics professor, structured around graded dialogues, grammar notes, and exercises with a key. Working through it gives a reader the Devanagari script, basic sentence structure, and enough vocabulary for ordinary conversation.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415110874?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, languages, asian-language

### 3. Elementary Hindi

**Author:** Richard Delacy, Sudha Joshi

The practice workbook accompanying Tuttle's Elementary Hindi textbook, with script drills, grammar exercises, and reading and writing practice. Doing the exercises consolidates Devanagari handwriting, verb forms, and sentence patterns introduced in the main course.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804845034?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, languages, asian-language

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