Hindi is one of the world’s main language, with over 650 million speakers in India, and millions more on every continent. There are man primers that teach children who can already speak Hindi-how to read and write their language. As the title Hindi Teacher for English Speaking People suggests, Dr. Ratnakar Narale has written this book with a different audience in mind: English speakers of all ages who want to learn Hindi from scratch. This audience includes many kinds of people: the inhabitants of non-Hindi-speaking parts of India; Canadians, Americans, and West Indians whose ancestors came from India, but whose first languages is English.
This logically arranged book is filled with virtually thousands of examples, and each dialogue is designed with the view of its practical value for the targeted people. Along the way, hundreds of new words and the  frequent exercises let he student learn to speak and  write Hindi sentences almost without much effort. This practical ‘Teach Yourself’ manual closes with exercises in correcting faulty sentences, reading dialogues, telling the time, and writing letters. There are also useful lists of proverbs, synonyms and antonyms, and so on.
Dr. Narale has been careful to draw most of the examples from words and concepts that are familiar to Westerners. This emphasizes that Hindi is a world language, and not merely an Indian one. Truly practical, compre-hensive and easy to understand reference manual for classroom study to learn Hindi.

M.Sc. (Pune), Ph.D. (IIT, Kharagpur) comes from Nagpur in central India. From childhood he has had a passion for Indian history and Sanskrit. He has Ph.D. in Sanskrit from the Kalidas Sanskrit University, Nagpur. From last few years He has retired from his business of computers to write books on subjects that interest him. His current publications are Gita Darshan, Gita ka Shabdakosh, Savistar Hindi Gita, Sanskrit Teacher for English Speaking People and Hindi Teacher for English. Speaking People. His upcoming books in English, include Adhyatmagita, Savistar Satyanarayana Katha and History of the Hindu People.
He can speak Marathi, Hindi. Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu and Sanskrit languages. He taught Advanced Hindi to the International MBA class, at the York University, Toronto. Currently he teaches Hindi for the Toronto School Board. He chairs the Sanskrit Vidya Parishad and teaches Sanskrit and Gita at the Hindu Institute of Learning, Toronto, of which he is the Principal. He is a director of the International Foundation for Vedic Science and the Vedic Heritage Study Center, Toronto.
Contact: India: 1 Abhinav Colony, Sita Nagar, Nagpur. Canada: 180 Torresdale Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M2R 3E4; Tel: (416) 739-8004; E-mail: rnarale@yahoo.ca