Teach Yourself Bengali Complete CourseAuthor: RADICE, WILLIAM Publisher: TEACH YOURSELF LANGU Publication date: 2008 ISBN: 9780071546942 Number of pages: 401 Format / Quality: mp3 - CD's Size: 42035 KB + 30369 KB The
languages spoken by the people in the India and Pakistan region are
plentiful and diverse, just like their speakers. 'Teach yourself' gives
you the opportunity to one of these major southeastern Asian languages.
'Teach yourself Bengali complete course' allows you to study in the
comfort of your own home, at your own pace. It introduces you to
practical themes, such as making travel arrangements, meeting someone
new, shopping, and other every day activities. Includes two audio CDs
with listening and speaking exercises.
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The Student's Marathi GrammarAuthor: G. R. Navalkar Publisher: Bombay Publication date: 1880 Number of pages: 397 Format / Quality: pdf Size: 16 MB It seems that we don't have anything on Marathi yet, so here is a grammar. I'll post a reader shortly.
As
in most scans of that provenance (you know what i mean) the Devanagari
is a little hard to read and some pages are messed up to the point of
causing offense (e.g. 140), but the grammar itself is comprehensive.
The
image is of course the Maratha hero Shivaji, depicted in fashionable
Mughal attire (he was their retainer before the tiger claw incident,
after all. What tiger claw, you ask. What? You've missed the best
part!).
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Marathi ReadingsAuthor: J. Nimbkar, M. Berntsen Publisher: Institute of Indian Studies Publication date: 1983 Number of pages: 82 Format / Quality: pdf Size: 1.3 MB After the grammar, here are some Marathi readings.
They consist mostly of dialogues and it's a bilingual (Marathi-English) edition, so there is very little strain.
You'll
realize you might need it when you take a bus to the Maharashtran
countryside and encounter a text or a newspaper which seems to be in
Hindi, but isn't.
Just don't turn into a follower of B.K. Thackerey!
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An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of EgyptAuthor: S. Spiro Publisher: al-Mokattam Publication date: 1895 Number of pages: 688 Format / Quality: djvu Size: 16 MB Here
is an old-school dictionary which is still often seen in bookstores in
Egypt. It was probably the best of its kind for some 70 years, until
Badawy and Hinds produced their dictionary of the Egyptian colloquial.
I
won't be harsh on dear ol' Spiro, because it's still a decent
dictionary and it's good to have it. It includes a lot of vocabulary
which you need if you're interested in Ottoman Egyptian history or
Egyptian material culture (clothing, traditional kitchen utensils,
etc). The scan which I found is actually decent (but not great) once
you get past the few first pages.
Here are the problems: I like
dictionaries with s
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A Manual of Colloquial Hindustani and BengaliAuthor: N. C. Chatterjee Publisher: the author Publication date: 1914 Number of pages: 196 Format / Quality: djvu Size: 5 MB Another one of those fabulous phrasebooks of yore, this time fortunately written by an Indian.
This one I like a lot because in addition to Hindustani, it also gives you the colloquial Bengali/Bangla equivalents.
So, how do you say: "As the road was very muddy, he slipped and cut his knees" in good Hindi or Bengali?
(Trust
me, you might need that sentence at certain times of the year in
Kolkata, before or after encountering the Goddess herself!)
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Язык панджабиAuthor: Н. И. Толстая Publisher: Издательство восточной литературы Publication date: 1960 Number of pages: 60 Format / Quality: PDF Size: 1.6MB
Очерк языка панджаби.
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Colloquial Urdu - The Complete Course for Beginners Author: Tej K. Bhatia and Ashok Koul Publisher: Routledge Publication date: 20000 Number of pages: 358 Format / Quality: Mp3(ripped from cassetes) + Book(PDF) zipped Size: Book(11,7MB+11,2MB+11,4MB) / Audio 82MB 'Colloquial
Urdu' offers you a step by step approach to written and spoken Urdu. No
prior knowledge of the language is required. It features - lots of
exercises for regular practice; concise grammar notes; useful
vocabulary and pronunciation guide; including answer key and special
reference section. By the end of this rewarding course you will be able
to communicate confidently and effectively in Urdu in a broad range of
everyday situations.
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Samputa Tantra Edition and Translation Author: G.Elder Publisher: Columbia Publication date: 1978 Number of pages: 207 Format / Quality: pdf Size: 5,5 MB
Now, friends, here is a treat.
As so often in Buddhist (and Hindu) Tantric literature, the Sanskrit is not pristine, but that's part of the charm, as far as I'm concerned.
This dissertation includes an introduction, the Sanskrit edition (just a portion of the original but that's fine) plus Tibetan and English translations of the edited section. Enjoy!
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Hindustani stumbling-blocks Author: D. C. Phillott Publisher: Crosby Lockwood Publication date: 1907 Number of pages: 160 Format / Quality: djvu Size: 4 MB
See the previous post for my all and sundry comments on colonialism, language and religion.
This one is even better than the previous one. Or, did you know you are supposed to use "jana" when you say you're going to someone's house, but you should write "ana"? See, I got you there!
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The Discourse Functions of Subordinate Constructions in Classical Sanskrit Narrative Texts Author: S.Y. Tsiang-Starcevic Publisher: Illinois Publication date: 1991 Number of pages: 172 Format / Quality: pdf Size: 10 MB
Questions of discourse and syntax tend to attract me the most in any language, so I am happy to present this interesting (but short) dissertation.
"Title says it all" as someone else often succinctly puts it.
BTW, her name is just a name, I can't remember detecting any Slavic or southern Chinese language comparisons in the text.
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Hindustani Idioms with Vocabulary and Explanatory NotesAuthor: A.N. Phillips Publisher: Kegan Paul Publication date: 1892 Number of pages: 248 Format / Quality: djvu Size: 9,3 MB
It's easy to roar with laughter about some features of this colonial work, intended to prepare Britisher officers for the advanced Hindustani (ie standard spoken Hindi minus much of the tatsama vocab) test.
For instance, "All my horses have bushy tales." I'll let you find the page for that one.
But, many of those guys also knew their languages really well, and even their "simplified" works would now be considered advanced. Then again, tourists in India don't really need Hindi, and Indian elites are not known to cultivate their own languages these days (with the possible exception of Bengalis and Tamils). Time for the real bhaktas to
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Encyclopedia of India, - 4 Volume SetPublisher: Charles Scribner’s
Sons Publication date: 2005 ISBN: 0684313499 Number of pages:
2000 Format / Quality: Pdf Size: 38 Mb Language:English
Цитата: As stated in the preface, there are "at least as
many reasons for wanting to learn more about India as there are articles, nearly
600, and pages, some 1,400, in this new encyclopedia." A welcome contribution to
Southeast Asian studies, Encyclopedia of India provides a comprehensive overview
of the country's history, geography, ethnography, art, religion, language,
economics, law, education, science, politics, medicine, and more.
Editor-in-chief Wolpert is a distinguished professor emeritus of history at
UCLA; under his leadership, a team of board members and 200 experts have written
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Colloquial Panjabi: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series (Book Only)) By Mangat Bhardwaj Publisher: Routledge 1995 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 0415101913 | PDF | 20 MB
Panjabi--the main language of Panjab, is also the most widely spoken language of Pakistan. Includes conversations based on common daily situations.Mangat Rai Bhardwaj The Panjabi script is one of the simplest and most consistent writing systems. This course uses a phonetic transcription to make the study of both Panjabi pronunciation and script as easy as possible. You will also learn why it is impossible to speak Panjabi while smoking a pipe!
Colloquial Panjabi is easy to use and completely claer. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course
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Tej Bhatia, “Colloquial Hindi: The Complete Course for Beginners (2 CDs)” Routledge | 2008-01-30 | ISBN: 0415419565 | 1 Hour 46 Minutes | mp3 | 97,8 MB
Breaking new ground, both substantively and stylistically, the Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies offers students, academics and researchers an accessible, engaging introduction and overview of this emerging field. The central premise of the volume is to explore the social character of sexuality, the role of social differences such as race or nationality in creating sexual variation, and the ways sex is entangled in relations of power and inequality. Through this novel approach the field of sexuality is therefore considered, for the first time, in multicultural, global, and comparative terms and from a truly social
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Nepali - Thami - English Dictionary Author: Mark Turin, Bir Bahadu Thami Publication date: 2000
Number of pages: 61 Format / Quality: pdf - zip - very good quality
Nepali - THami - English Dictionary
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A Dictionary of Sindhi and English Author: Stack, George Publisher: American Mission Press, Bombay Publication date: 1855 Number of pages: 443 Format / Quality: rar-djvu / good Size: 25,3 MB
A Sindhi-English dictionary in Devanagari script
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