Meera

This aren't nessacarily newspapers, but they are live news TV that are avaible to watch online in Hindi.

CNBC Awaaz

http://hindi.moneycontrol.com/tv/

This is a bussiness news channel.

IBN 7 Live

http://khabar.ibnlive.in.com/livestreaming/IBN7/

Doordarshan News (DD News)

http://webcast.gov.in/live/

This is broadcasted in English and Hindi.

ETV Uttar Pradesh

http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-etv-99449949.html

India Tv

http://www.indiatvnews.com/livetv/

News 24

http://news24online.com/livetv.aspx

Khabrain Abhi Tak

http://www.khabrainabhitak.com/?page_id=307

Sadhna News

http://www.sadhnanewslive.com/index.html

Channel One

http://www.smartstream.in/channel1/

These are great for listening practice!

Here are some useful Hindi greetings.nNot sure if some of the more formal ones are still used though but I hope it helps a little to anyone interested in Hindi.

नमस्ते (namaste)- Hello

नमस्कार (namaskar)- Hello

हेलो- (hello)

स्वागत/सवागत हैं- (swagat/swagat hain)- Welcome

शुभ प्रभात (shub prahbhat)- Good morning

दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dophar ke baad namaskar)-Good afternoon (I really think this one might be wrong?)

शुभ सन्ध्या (shub sandhya)- Good evening

शुभ रात्रि(shub raatri)- Good night

अलविदा - (alvida)- Bye

फिर मिलेंगे (phir milenge) Until we meet again/bye

आपका दिन अच्छा बीते! (aapka din accha bite!)- Have a nice day

आप कैसे हैं?-(aap kaise hain)- How are you(speaking to a man/honorfic)

आप कैसी हैं?-(aap kaisi hain?)- How are you? (speaking to a woman/honorfic)

तुम कैसे हो? (tum kaise ho)- how are you? (speaking to a male/familiar)

तुम कैसी हो?(tum kaisi ho)- How are you? (speaking to a female/familiar)

Sometimes Native speakers will swicth the word order and sometimes I have heard it said like:

कैसे हैं आप?(kaise hain aap?)

कैसे हो तुम? (kaise ho tum?) 

But I think maybe with strangers it is best to stick with SOV formation.

मैं अच्छा हूँ , शुक्रिया। और आप? (main accha hoon, shukriya. Aur aap)- I'm good thanks and you? (male speaking)

*शुक्रिया is the arabic influenced word for Thank you, the sanskrit influenced word is धन्यवाद (dhanyavad). I have heard शुक्रिया more though in genreal conversation.

मैं अच्छी हूँ, शुक्रिया, और आप? (main acchi hoon, shukriya, aur aap?)- I'm good, thanks, and you? (spoken by a female)

आपका नाम क्या है?(aapka naam kya hai?)- What is your name? (honorfic)

मेरा नाम…है (mera naam...hai)-My name is...

आप कहाँ से हैं? (aap kahaan se hain?)-Where are you from? (honorfic)

मैं… से हूँ (main...se hoon)-I'm from

आप से मिलकर ख़ुशी हुई (aap se mikar khushi hui) - Nice to meet you!

Hope you liked these phrases

एय  क्या बोलती तू? एय क्या मैं बोलूँ? सुन! सुना? आती क्या खंडाला?

[MITWA] -Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna- Full HD Video Song Eng-TarekBepari

आशा हूँ की सब लोग इन गाने पसंद करेंगे (मालूम नहीं की अगर वाक्य सही है)

Nazar Ke Saamne Jigar Ke Paas (Eng Sub) [Full Song] (HD) With Lyrics - Aashiqui

Sun raha hai na tu - Aashiqui 2 (Female Version) by Shreya ghoshal

I'm not an English native speaker, my native is Pashto.

If you haven't read any of his books and novels, you are missing out on a lot. Have a look here- http://hindisamay.com/premchand%20samagra/Indexpremchand.htm

http://www.brandbihar.com/hindi/literature/preamchand/premchand.html

Wow! This is an awesome link! Thank you so much! I was looking for somewhere to read Hindi online and could not find it at all. Thank you sooo much for these links.  :grin:

Poor dogs. The Indian film industry sure seems to give them a rough time.

aww It seems in idioms dogs are always bad

It's not easy at all. You have to learn all the basics which is not that difficult, but mastering it is not a child's play.

No language is easy to master, but Hindi is deffintly easier to master for an English than Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, or Thai because it is Indo-European which means it is distant cousins to the English language and also disant cousins to French, Spanish, Italian and even closer to languages like Persian. Hindi really presents no gigantic challenges to the English speaker, the only three things that I think are difficult and mess up on are the cases, word order can sometimes to be tricky and the gender. But even in French I have problems with the gender. The other thing for an english speaker that could be imdiating is the script, but even that is learnt eaisly because it is pretty much phonetic. It is not like in Japanese where you have to learn three diffirent scripts, including Kanji which has to be memorized or Arabic where they script does not write vowels and you  have to guess the prounciation.  Arabic grammar is also extreamly complicated, plurals are irregualar, they are called broken plurals and follow a pattern that you can not guess, that means every word you learn you have to memorize the plural version of it. Verbs in Arabic are really complex, they follow many different forms and patterns that often make no sense at all and extreamly confusing. Compared to some other languages Hindi for English speakers is really not that difficult. I just think it gets the reputation of being difficult because a lot of English would never take the time to learn it sadly  

Mujhe apki hindi kafi pasand aai, khas taur par jo aap kehti hai "mai sochti hu", mujhe aisa lagta hai k aap bharat desh(India) se nahi hai. Kya mai sahi hu?

शुक्रिया अहिश जी! और हाँ मैं भारत नहीं से हूँ, मैं अफ़ग़ान हूँ.

कल मैंने "लूटेरा" देखा। बहुत अच्छी फिल्म थी! सोचती हूँ इस एक मेरी पसंदीदा फिल्मों है.

SHIKAYATEIN FULL VIDEO SONG HD (HQ) LOOTERA (2013) LATEST ROMANTIC SONG | RANVEER, SONAKSHI

MONTA RE Full Song With Lyrics Lootera (OFFICIAL) | Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha

I loved this movie a lot, it is one of my favorites.

Which it isn't and never was. Hindi is the most spoken language in the country but from a constitutional point of view, it is merely one of 18 state languages. Sure it is one of the two national official languages but that doesn't mean it can be imposed on people in all states. Frankly speaking, we shouldn't have it any other way.

Perhaps making it necessary to have bilingual circulars in the northern states can be a viable way.

I agree SpiralArchitect, Hindi should not be forced on people. India will always have a lot of languages and it should be proud of it.

I don't like the sound of Afrikaans, Spanish or Latin.

Kannathil Muthamittal Kannathil Muthamittal

Tamil - Konjum Mainakkale (Aishwarya Rai)

Tamil - Kannamuchi Yennada - Aishwarya Rai - Kandukondein

I love Tamil. I think it is one of the most prettiest languages ever.

Thanks for the clarification Meera! My mother tongue Tamil has an extremely difficult grammar which even native speakers struggle to master!

Yeah Tamil grammar is so difficult.

In case you're interested, the story was made into a really good movie by Satyajit Ray. Its worth checking out in my opinion.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076696/

Yeah I have seen this movie and it was so good. Actually I like most satyajit Ray movies His movies made me want to learn bengali haha

Hi ashwinr, I PMed you about the ebook.

हाहा हाँ! 

सोचती हूँ की रणवीर सिंह अच्छा अभिनेता है.

bahut shukriya wowtgp!

Hi ashwinr, I don't think it is that difficult. It is deffintly not as difficult as Korean or Arabic grammar. The only real changeling things for English speakers would be the gender, the cases and the SOV word order but many European languages also have this.

हेरा फेरी देखा और मुझे फिल्म पसंद है. ग्रैंड मस्ती नहीं देखती. मुझको राम-लीला देखना चाहती हूँ. संजय लीला भंसाली बहुत अच्छा निर्देशक है! मुझको उसके फिल्मों बहुत पसंद है.

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