Preparing for HUF
The Flagship program follows an intensive curriculum that covers the wide range of cultural and linguistic traditions of Hindi and Urdu. Prospective students may find it helpful to begin some private study before joining the program; HUF’s online learning and teaching resources are a good place to start. Our Glossaries Alive podcast is appropriate for beginners, while the Spoken Thesaurus is intended for learners at the intermediate level. Our website also offers a wide range of other materials available to all comers. Listed below are some additional resources that you may find useful.
Textbooks
Teach Yourself Hindi | Rupert Snell
Teach Yourself Beginner’s Hindi Script | Rupert Snell
Let’s Study Urdu | Ali S. Asani & Syed Akbar Hyder
Let’s Study Urdu: An Introduction to the Script | Ali S. Asani & Syed Akbar Hyder
Urdu: An Essential Grammar | Ruth Laila Schmidt
Introduction to Hindi Grammar | Usha R. Jain
Dictionaries
The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary | RS McGregor
A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English | John T Platts (online version available)
The Oxford English-Urdu Dictionary | Shanul Haq Haqqee
Rajpal English-Hindi Dictionary | Hardev Bahri
Online: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Online: Shabdkosh.com
Online: CRULP Online Urdu Dictionary