Pimsleur Basic Hindi

I have now finished listening to this course. It contains ten lessons that each last half an hour.

The advantages: it is a good drill with lots of repetition and after faithfully doing all the exercises you can't help learning the material. You have talked to yourself quite a bit which should help becoming fluent in the language or at least getting an understandable pronunciation. 

The disadvantages: the range of the covered material  is very limited and the course seems strangely incomplete. The lessons cover only about a hundred words or so,  and that's including words like Gandhi.   

After completing the course you are going to be able to ask someone for a lunch date and argue with him or her endlessly about whether you should eat at the hotel or drink tea at the restaurant and whether you want to go to your place or his or her home. However, you will not be able to ask your date their name, or say please, and thank you.  The course won't help you say you need a doctor or the police.  You will be able to say you're American or Indian but if you're from anywhere else you're out of luck.  You won't be able to buy a train ticket to Delhi in Hindi or ask what anything costs.  You will be taught some future tense verb forms but only in the masculine. You will learn how to ask what time is it  but if the answer is six, seven, ten, eleven or twelve o'clock you won't be able to understand the answer because those numbers were never covered and they never got around to times that deviate from the full hour either.  All in all it  seems just like a snippet of a longer course and perhaps it is. But since it's for sale as a package¸i would like it to feel more planned and complete as a whole. 

Anyway, namaste, kya aap mere saath mere ghar par kuch khaanaa chahte hain? Do baje theek hai?  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L899QuA1E24