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An original two-in-one monograph that serves as an ideal guide-book for beginners, Hindi for Non-Hindi Speaking People has sprung from Kavita Kumar’s long experience of teaching Hindi to foreign students of different nationalities. Useful as a classroom text, as well as for self-study, this book is designed to meet the requirements of the novice, gradually moving towards intermediate and upper intermediate levels of proficiency. It is, as a result, also useful for fairly advanced students of the language, helping to hone grammatical mistakes in speech and writing.  The book is a comprehensible and interesting course comprising a series of meticulously arranged lessons, taking the reader on a journey through the Hindi alphabet, including its vowels, consonants and phonetics, applying them to daily-life situations in India. It also includes practice exercises, lists of antonyms and synonyms, words and phrases, idioms, and other grammar essentials. Hindi for Non-Hindi Speaking People fulfils the long-felt need for a handbook on Hindi grammar for non-Hindi speaking people, inside and outside the country. About the Author Kavita Kumar was born in Rawalpindi in 1936. She has a master’s degree from the University of Delhi, and has been teaching Hindi as a foreign language in India and abroad for more than twenty-five years to aspiring learners from all over the world. She also works with long distance learners by phone and Skype, using study material designed by her for online lessons. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.