Hindi Language Portfolio. 2010-2016. Brian Steel
Following the recent completion of my first book-length study of Hindi for intermediate level students of Hindi as a second language (HSL), I have reviewed my Internet postings since 2010 and present them here in a more logical order for interested students, beginning with the potentially more useful postings. Other shorter postings which have been made to date on this still unfinished journey are listed as Part 2.
As the reader will notice, two websites are involved. The other obvious points are that my studies centre mainly on media Hindi usage and that my presentations are all in romanised Hindi (with my own practical transliteration scheme) and in English alphabetical order. I have found this method very effective as a shortcut for dealing with large amounts of written and spoken Hindi media information and other writing available on the Internet. Eventually, with this and other planned lexical work, Devanagari script may be added, if I can find a collaborator to undertake that laborious task.
Part 1. Studies of practical interest to students of HSL
In late 2012, I began a series of specific lexicographical studies on this page.
“This new web page reflects the course of my broadening interest in contemporary India as a whole and in one of its major languages, Hindi.”
In October 2012 I have finally felt able to begin to post a series of articles on the Hindi language based on my (determined) 4-year struggle to add Hindi to the list of languages that I can comprehend. I am now comprehending, but still quite slowly!
It is my hope that the series, Hindi Learning Hints, may be of some use to fellow foreign learners of Hindi, in particular to those for whom English is a native or major language. I hope that those who are further advanced in this process than myself, as well as any Hindi-speakers who may chance to see these articles, may be able to favour me with their corrections of my misunderstandings and errors, preferably at ompukalani@hotmail.com”
2012 November (This post has had 5,100 views.)
Hindi Learning Hints. 1. The Versatile vaalaa Suffix (Introduction)
2013 May (This post has had 17,885 views.)
Handy Hindi Hints. 2. Selected Prefixes and Other Word Formation Elements [First Draft]
Shorter version: Translation 42. Learner’s Guide to Hindi Prefixes and word formation. Introduction
2013 June Handy Hindi Hints. 3. (This post has had 12,577 views.)
Hindi Suffixes and Word Formation
[2013, mid-June. Unpublished Draft: Hindi Learning Hints 4. 2,000 English Loanwords in Contemporary Hindi Media usage]
2013 December (This post has had 1,764 views.)
Hindi Learning Hints 5. Postpositions (108+ Hindi Postpositions. A Comprehensive List for HSL Students. Draft.’)
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2016 21 February Introduction to Book: English Loanwords, Abbreviations, and Acronyms in Hindi. A Romanised Guide to Hindi Media Usage
A further extract from this book:
Translation 53. English Loanwords in Hindi. Lexical References.
Part 2. Chronological progress of my other postings about the Hindi Language
2010 August Translation 22. Cultural Content of Given Names. The Case of Hindi
2011 January Translation 26. An Online Hindi & Urdu Glossary of Bollywood films by Volker Schuermann
2011 August Basic Hindi Vocabulary for Lucky English-Speaking Learners
2011 December Hindi Acronyms are based on English phonetics
2012 June Translation 36. Free Internet Translation Software: The Contest between Google Translate and Microsoft’s BING Translator. Russian and Hindi
2012 September Translation 37. Arvind and Kusum Kumar’s magnum opus: the Bilingual Hindi and English Thesaurus
2012 October Translation 38. Hindi Learning Shortcuts. Introduction to a New Series
Translation 39. A Short Reference List for Hindi learners & Notes on the suffix vaalaa / ‘wallah’
2013 January Translation 40. Hindi-English-Hinglish, an Indian ménage à trois
and a shorter version
Translation 41. Hindi Learning Hints 4. English Loanwords in Contemporary Hindi
30 April 2014 Linguistic Glimpses of the 2014 Indian General Elections Through English Loanwords in Hindi
23 December 2014 Translation 49. French Loanwords in English. Pronunciation Guide for Hindi Speakers. Introduction
27 March 2015 Translation 51. Arvind Kumar’s Word Power in English
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There is a wider Portfolio available on my wordpress.com site which includes other writings on India. To see this, insert “Portfolio” in my website Search SLOT.
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