If Duolingo is too fast paced, then you aren't going to learn any quicker using a different method. The fastest way to learn any language is full immersion with lessons. It's extremely difficult. Maybe go online and find a tutor/teacher in your area or virtually. Oh and it's "ciao".
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If the test is standardized, then I'm assuming test prep already exists for it. Your goal should be to pass the test, not to learn Hindi, because one month is wayyyyy too short to learn a language. You might be able to pick up the alphabet, and some common phrases within a month.
Once you've passed the test, you can focus on learning Hindi. If you study 4-6hrs a day, then I reckon you could be intermediate in about 6-12mos.
Yeah i am looking into some prep.
You donβt
Thanks thought so too.
I want to stress this out, but Hindi ISN'T the national language of India. We don't have a national language, only official and state languages. State languages are also misleading - it represents only the majority linguistic group, and not the minority and tribal section. Hindi is spoken in the Hindi belt with a regional twist. You may be able to converse with a Bhojpuri or Brij speaker, but that's like trying to speak to a Welsh or Gaelic speaker in English.
I know that but where i am going they do speak hindi . Just didn't wanna specify state.
YouTube is your best bet. Just get familiar with the varnamalas (alphabet). Grammar is secondary. If you can, try reading Hindi poems. If you want to challenge yourself, read Premchand's work.
Yeah currently watching some youtube but they explain hindi in hindi ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Institute
36-64 weeks of very intensive training can get it done.
30 days does not seem like enough time to become fluent in any language.
Hit up your local library, Rosetta Stone has library partnerships and you can take their programs for free through the library.
Pimsleur courses were the best tool I've used for learning languages on my own. I haven't tried the apps, but your local library might have books and CDs. I got mine from the high seas.
I can pirate too . Any recomendations ?
You are probably going to want a tutor that offers an intensive class, that can be done in a month, but you are still going to be looking at 50+ hours.
Do you know what level the exam is expecting?
I'd say high school level atleast in hindi . I can speak hindi like a four year old .
So you are at about an A1 and want to get up to around a B1? I don't like saying impossible but a month is not long at all. If you can already read it you might do better, just focus on the reading and writing skills, get some sample papers if you can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages?wprov=sfla1
I can write like a four year old too.
The Mango app is much better than Duolingo. Less game like, more effective, because you can quickly record your own voice and playback simultaneously with the native speaker, correcting your own pronunciation.
Do they have a website ?
Don't know, I've only used the Android app to learn Cherokee.
Set a reasonable goal for language achievement. You will not be fluent in a month if you don't already know how to learn a new language.
Get yourself kidnapped by some hindi-speaking cult. Take lots of acid, and try to convince them to let you go. Join the cult. Eventually, lean to speak hindi. Sober up from acid. Kidnapping and cult never happened. But now you speak hindi.
Hindi end. It all worked out
Do you need to read and write as well or only speak? It took me a long time to realize i wasn't learning anything with duolingo. I switched to pimsleur, and i have made much better progress with my Hindi.
Pimsleur advertises it can give you a solid foundation of a language in 30 days. I am too lazy to complete it in 30 days, but i can see where it is going
Sadly write it too . Do they have a website ? or just app ?
It is a website and an app. You can use whatever you like. Pimsleur offers reading lessons as well after you reach lesson 10.
Devanagari is a phonetic script, so you also might be able to get by on reading by learning all the characters and their sounds while learning to listen and speak
'The best way to learn a language is underneath the mosquito net'.
Is this Warhammer lore or a reference to an anime or something else I'm not clued in on
It's usually attributed to the Colonial Dutch.
Find a local partner and you can pick up a language surprisingly quickly.
I've done duo lingo for a couple languages. I find it easier to read the language. But without actual conversation with another person. Makes it very hard to grasp the language. I've gotten a tip. That watching children shows that use the language are the best way to start. Dora for example.
Yeah i was just thinking about binging something in hindi . Though the last time i tried tje show was so good i had to complete it in english because i really enjoyed it . (The show was farzi and i highly recommend it.It's on amazon prime.) Maybe shouldn't have started with one of the best indian show.