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usagypsychic Friday 16th of December 2005 04:35:13 AM
Indic Online Resources - Namaste

I'm sure many of you use search engines to find online resources for all languages.
That is how I found this site, one of my favorites :)
However, going through the 100s of returns is taxing.
Thought I would post the most beneficial resources I have found on phrasebase.com
& the net related to Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, etc. here
- with brief descriptions of relevance.
Anyone wishing to add to the list, please do.
And MUCH THANKS out to all who have contributed
to the HINDI SECTION of phrasebase.com and all of phrasebase.com.
It is the most beneficial, friendliest, fun & enlightening site I've found thus far.

ONLINE TOOLS & RESOURCES---

THE LINGUIST LIST ORG.
http://www.linguistlist.org/

FREE ONLINE LANGUAGE COURSES
Many Language Choices at http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
Hindi Course Choices at http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html#hindi
List below taken from above URL
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/lessons.html
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/hindi/
http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Hindi/hindi.html
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/hindi.asp
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/101/default.asp
http://www.ukindia.com/zhin001.htm

HINDI SCRIPT TUTOR
http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm

DEVANAGARI LESSONS
http://www.garretwilson.com/education/languages/hindi/devanagari/

ONLINE INTERFACE to ITRANS
English-Encoded Text converted to Indian Language Scripts
Output in PostScript, GIF image, PDF, or HTML (Latin1 or Unicode) formats:
Supports: Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Gurmukhi, Romanized Sanskrit.
http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/

HINDI ALPHABET
"Hindi is spoken exactly as it is written so being a phonetic language it is very easy to learn to read"
Quoted from this lessons' page.
You can download lessons in PDF format to print out.
http://www.ukindia.com/zhin001.htm
and
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/hindi/alphabet/
has ALPHABET with SOUND FILES TO DOWNLOAD
and play with realplayer or other software maybe.
New at this.

Also found online ENGLISH TO HINDI DICTIONARY at
http://sanskrit.gde.to/hindi/dict/eng-hin-itrans.html

EDEN GOLSHANI's INDIAN LANGUAGE ALPHABET COMPARISON PAGE
HINDI..URDU..PUNJABI..GUJARATI
http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm

VIRTUAL HINDI
Online Hindi Lessons
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/hindi/grammar.html

Links to HINDI..URDU...PUNJABI...GUJARATI...ARABIC..GREEK...RUSSIAN...English from Hindi...SPANISH Lessons and Alphabets also.
http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm

JOHN T. PLATTS A DICTIONARY OF URDU, CLASSICAL HINDI, AND ENGLISH
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/platts/
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/platts/index.html

ONLINE TRANSLATORS AND DICTIONARIES many resources for many languages here!
http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

URDU ONLINE DICTIONARY - Just gives word returns
but no definition for example "fine" in english meaning "I am fine" returns 3 words 1 being a fine like a traffic ticket.
http://www.urduword.com
Looked up word return at another online dictionary you really have to read :) ha ha!

URDU ONLINE DICTIONARY
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~navin/india/urdu.dictionary

URDU ONLINE DICTIONARY
http://biphost.spray.se/tracker/dict/index.html

MY LANGUAGE EXCHANGE CLUB LIBRARY - you can set the languages to learn phrases that have
been recorded by members at this site. You don't have to become a member to use this tool. Fare warning for those of you that are easily offended by "adult" Rated R content: there are some "adult" phrases listed on this site in the Hindi section of phrases and I'm sure many other languages as well. I was somewhat surprised the moderators left the content posted but hey! Free Speech Rocks!!! I mention this because I just don't want anyone to go there and be caught of guard by some of the phrases. Overall, it really isn't that informative. It's repetitive and many phrases can be found elsewhere and probably more correctly phrased. However, there are new users everyday and new additions to this particular phrase index may be found.
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Notepad.asp?show=1

PUNJABI
Online Punjabi Lessons
http://www.maa.com.au/alphabets/alphabets.html

Online Punjabi Lessons
http://allaboutsikhs.com/youth/punj.htm

Online Punjabi Lessons
http://www.punjabonline.com/servlet/library.language

Online Punjabi Lessons
http://www.5abi.com/5ratan/

SINHALA Links
http://phrasebase.com/forum/read.php?TID=11638

---:)ONLINE MUSIC, ART, CULTURES, COMMUNITIES---

SOUND OF INDIA - "premier destination on the Net for Indian Classical Music"
http://www.SoundOfIndia.com

PUNJAB ONLINE - Punjabi history, culture, community, dictionary and many other benefits.
Very good resource for Bhangra music.
The discussion board is a hoot and always enlightening!
http://www.punjabonline.com

HINDI FORUM -
Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin TV Drama Forum
Some interesting info & reading.
http://www.jassi.2hell.com/

URDU FORUM
Mehfil-e-Sukan Urdu for the Beginers
Mehfil-e-Sukhan Urdu se mohabbat karne vaaloN ki mehfil
All in Urdu. Sink or swim in Urdu! ;)
http://www.stanvir.com/urdu/viewtopic.php?t=4243&highlight=

HI5 Network
“hi5 offers a popular destination for the teens and twenties demographic around the world. Over 20 million members around the world have registered for hi5 to discover friends with similar interests, to reconnect with friends from the past, and to express their personalities.”
www.hi5.com
Many Indic Language Forums and Groups here.
Hindi
Punjabi
Urdu
Gujarati
and more....

Neila Thursday 29th of December 2005 10:18:33 PM
- okay, i'll add two Hindi-ressources:

[url="http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/]A door into Hindi[/url]
I personally think that the site is quit good, I started learning with this site but after a while I found it very annoying that I always have to switch on my computer if I want to learn. That's why I bought a book instead "Teach yourself Hindi", but the site is said to be based on TYH.
You'll find sound-files for most of the vocabulary, a video-file for every lesson and more things, but the last time I visited the site lacked some exercises.

[url="http://www.wordanywhere.com"]wordanywhere.com[/url]
an English-Hindi/(Telugu) online-dictionary, you need to know some Itrans-rules to use it. You'll find the rules if you click on the Help-"button" on this site.

usagypsychic Thursday 29th of December 2005 11:52:10 PM
- Hey! Thanks for the input!
Yeah, I use wordanywhere too but the returns are taxing
because then you have to look up which one is appropriate usage of word if you get a return at all but I do use it a lot. Anything is better than nothing. I'm ashamed to say I haven't bought a text book yet but I'm a Libra, we can never make a decision.
There's also a list of commonly used Hindi phrases there at wordanywhere that I use a reference.
Again, thanks for the add on and keep it up! and the book suggestion.
[quote][i]Originally posted by Neila[/i]

okay, i'll add two Hindi-ressources:

[url="http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/]A door into Hindi[/url]
I personally think that the site is quit good, I started learning with this site but after a while I found it very annoying that I always have to switch on my computer if I want to learn. That's why I bought a book instead "Teach yourself Hindi", but the site is said to be based on TYH.
You'll find sound-files for most of the vocabulary, a video-file for every lesson and more things, but the last time I visited the site lacked some exercises.

[url="http://www.wordanywhere.com"]wordanywhere.com[/url]
an English-Hindi/(Telugu) online-dictionary, you need to know some Itrans-rules to use it. You'll find the rules if you click on the Help-"button" on this site.
[/quote]

mahdy Monday 03rd of July 2006 05:26:12 PM
hi .. . bohut danyavad - bohut danyavad

Rainbow_Oasis Tuesday 28th of August 2007 04:34:57 PM
- While searching for urdu podcasts, I found the following hindi podcasts:

Start with the basics:
http://www.ispeakhindi.com
http://learnhindipodcast.blogspot.com
Funny, sarcastic hindi, taken from different movies, for the advanced: http://www.cuttingchai.com/HouseFull/index.html
the first episodes don\'t have transctiption, but the last ones do.

Phrasebase Archive
	usagypsychic	Friday 16th of December 2005 04:35:13 AM
	Indic Online Resources - Namaste I'm sure many of you use search engines to find online resources for all languages. That is how I found this site, one of my favorites :) However, going through the 100s of returns is taxing. Thought I would post the most beneficial resources I have found on phrasebase.com & the net related to Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, etc. here - with brief descriptions of relevance. Anyone wishing to add to the list, please do. And MUCH THANKS out to all who have contributed to the HINDI SECTION of phrasebase.com and all of phrasebase.com. It is the most beneficial, friendliest, fun & enlightening site I've found thus far. ONLINE TOOLS & RESOURCES--- THE LINGUIST LIST ORG. http://www.linguistlist.org/ FREE ONLINE LANGUAGE COURSES Many Language Choices at http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html Hindi Course Choices at http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html#hindi List below taken from above URL http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/lessons.html http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/hindi/ http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Hindi/hindi.html http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/hindi.asp http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jishnu/101/default.asp http://www.ukindia.com/zhin001.htm HINDI SCRIPT TUTOR http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm DEVANAGARI LESSONS http://www.garretwilson.com/education/languages/hindi/devanagari/ ONLINE INTERFACE to ITRANS English-Encoded Text converted to Indian Language Scripts Output in PostScript, GIF image, PDF, or HTML (Latin1 or Unicode) formats: Supports: Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Gurmukhi, Romanized Sanskrit. http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/ HINDI ALPHABET "Hindi is spoken exactly as it is written so being a phonetic language it is very easy to learn to read" Quoted from this lessons' page. You can download lessons in PDF format to print out. http://www.ukindia.com/zhin001.htm and http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/hindi/alphabet/ has ALPHABET with SOUND FILES TO DOWNLOAD and play with realplayer or other software maybe. New at this. Also found online ENGLISH TO HINDI DICTIONARY at http://sanskrit.gde.to/hindi/dict/eng-hin-itrans.html EDEN GOLSHANI's INDIAN LANGUAGE ALPHABET COMPARISON PAGE HINDI..URDU..PUNJABI..GUJARATI http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm VIRTUAL HINDI Online Hindi Lessons http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/hindi/grammar.html Links to HINDI..URDU...PUNJABI...GUJARATI...ARABIC..GREEK...RUSSIAN...English from Hindi...SPANISH Lessons and Alphabets also. http://www.ukindia.com/zalph.htm JOHN T. PLATTS A DICTIONARY OF URDU, CLASSICAL HINDI, AND ENGLISH http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/platts/ http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/platts/index.html ONLINE TRANSLATORS AND DICTIONARIES many resources for many languages here! http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html URDU ONLINE DICTIONARY - Just gives word returns but no definition for example "fine" in english meaning "I am fine" returns 3 words 1 being a fine like a traffic ticket. http://www.urduword.com Looked up word return at another online dictionary you really have to read :) ha ha! URDU ONLINE DICTIONARY http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~navin/india/urdu.dictionary URDU ONLINE DICTIONARY http://biphost.spray.se/tracker/dict/index.html MY LANGUAGE EXCHANGE CLUB LIBRARY - you can set the languages to learn phrases that have been recorded by members at this site. You don't have to become a member to use this tool. Fare warning for those of you that are easily offended by "adult" Rated R content: there are some "adult" phrases listed on this site in the Hindi section of phrases and I'm sure many other languages as well. I was somewhat surprised the moderators left the content posted but hey! Free Speech Rocks!!! I mention this because I just don't want anyone to go there and be caught of guard by some of the phrases. Overall, it really isn't that informative. It's repetitive and many phrases can be found elsewhere and probably more correctly phrased. However, there are new users everyday and new additions to this particular phrase index may be found. http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Notepad.asp?show=1 PUNJABI Online Punjabi Lessons http://www.maa.com.au/alphabets/alphabets.html Online Punjabi Lessons http://allaboutsikhs.com/youth/punj.htm Online Punjabi Lessons http://www.punjabonline.com/servlet/library.language Online Punjabi Lessons http://www.5abi.com/5ratan/ SINHALA Links http://phrasebase.com/forum/read.php?TID=11638 ---:)ONLINE MUSIC, ART, CULTURES, COMMUNITIES--- SOUND OF INDIA - "premier destination on the Net for Indian Classical Music" http://www.SoundOfIndia.com PUNJAB ONLINE - Punjabi history, culture, community, dictionary and many other benefits. Very good resource for Bhangra music. The discussion board is a hoot and always enlightening! http://www.punjabonline.com HINDI FORUM - Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin TV Drama Forum Some interesting info & reading. http://www.jassi.2hell.com/ URDU FORUM Mehfil-e-Sukan Urdu for the Beginers Mehfil-e-Sukhan Urdu se mohabbat karne vaaloN ki mehfil All in Urdu. Sink or swim in Urdu! ;) http://www.stanvir.com/urdu/viewtopic.php?t=4243&highlight= HI5 Network “hi5 offers a popular destination for the teens and twenties demographic around the world. Over 20 million members around the world have registered for hi5 to discover friends with similar interests, to reconnect with friends from the past, and to express their personalities.” www.hi5.com Many Indic Language Forums and Groups here. Hindi Punjabi Urdu Gujarati and more....
	Neila	Thursday 29th of December 2005 10:18:33 PM
	- okay, i'll add two Hindi-ressources: [url="http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/]A door into Hindi[/url] I personally think that the site is quit good, I started learning with this site but after a while I found it very annoying that I always have to switch on my computer if I want to learn. That's why I bought a book instead "Teach yourself Hindi", but the site is said to be based on TYH. You'll find sound-files for most of the vocabulary, a video-file for every lesson and more things, but the last time I visited the site lacked some exercises. [url="http://www.wordanywhere.com"]wordanywhere.com[/url] an English-Hindi/(Telugu) online-dictionary, you need to know some Itrans-rules to use it. You'll find the rules if you click on the Help-"button" on this site.
	usagypsychic	Thursday 29th of December 2005 11:52:10 PM
	- Hey! Thanks for the input! Yeah, I use wordanywhere too but the returns are taxing because then you have to look up which one is appropriate usage of word if you get a return at all but I do use it a lot. Anything is better than nothing. I'm ashamed to say I haven't bought a text book yet but I'm a Libra, we can never make a decision. There's also a list of commonly used Hindi phrases there at wordanywhere that I use a reference. Again, thanks for the add on and keep it up! and the book suggestion. [quote][i]Originally posted by Neila[/i] okay, i'll add two Hindi-ressources: [url="http://www.ncsu.edu/project/hindi_lessons/]A door into Hindi[/url] I personally think that the site is quit good, I started learning with this site but after a while I found it very annoying that I always have to switch on my computer if I want to learn. That's why I bought a book instead "Teach yourself Hindi", but the site is said to be based on TYH. You'll find sound-files for most of the vocabulary, a video-file for every lesson and more things, but the last time I visited the site lacked some exercises. [url="http://www.wordanywhere.com"]wordanywhere.com[/url] an English-Hindi/(Telugu) online-dictionary, you need to know some Itrans-rules to use it. You'll find the rules if you click on the Help-"button" on this site. [/quote]
	mahdy	Monday 03rd of July 2006 05:26:12 PM
	hi .. . bohut danyavad - bohut danyavad
	Rainbow_Oasis	Tuesday 28th of August 2007 04:34:57 PM
	- While searching for urdu podcasts, I found the following hindi podcasts: Start with the basics: http://www.ispeakhindi.com http://learnhindipodcast.blogspot.com Funny, sarcastic hindi, taken from different movies, for the advanced: http://www.cuttingchai.com/HouseFull/index.html the first episodes don\'t have transctiption, but the last ones do.