Remember I wrote
about the Pimsleur Basic Hindi course the other day. I had also bought the Pimsleur
Conversational Hindi course and I feel a bit ripped off now. The site that I ordered
them from didn't say that the Conversational Hindi is just the same as the Basic
Hindi plus 6 more lessons. I thought it would be more like the beginner's course
and the intermediate course but it's just recycling the same material in different
sized packages. Apparently Pimsleur's Comprehensive Hindi is the same as
the Conversational Hindi + 14 more lessons. The good news is that they did get around to teaching
the missing numbers and the feminine forms of the future tense words in the following
lessons. The bad news is that the range of the conversations is really very limited.
The same stuff repeats over and over again and there is very little new vocabulary.
But at least now I know how to have endless arguments about the time
when I ask someone for a dinner date (but I still don't
know how to ask what his name is) and I have learned how to beg for money.
(Mere paas kuch dollar nahin hai. Mujhe bees rupee chahiye. Kya aap mujhko kuch
paisa dee sakte hain? Aapke paas bahut paisa hai. Mujhko kuch rupee dijiye. Ji nahin, yeh kafi nahin hai, aapne mujhko pacches rupee denee hain ...)
Just you wait, I can make myself a real nuisance in Hindi soon!
Just you wait, I can make myself a real nuisance in Hindi soon!
I think this
course has been misleadingly labeled. The Conversational Hindi course is not conversational,
it's still very much beginner's Basic Hindi even with the extra six lessons. I
am not going to buy the Comprehensive course
because I would get only 14 new lessons for the price of 30 and if it proceeds
at the same rate it's not going to be comprehensive, it's still going to be only
basic beginners stuff. Also I think some of
the grammar explanations are a bit iffy.
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