Hindi Beginners Course
Topic outline
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The Republic of India has 18 official or national languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English. Not all languages are from the same group, thus an Indian speaker of Hindi would understand a Tamil speaker so well as for example an Englishman would understand a Chinese! Hindi as one of the official languages of India (Bharaat) has more than180 000 000 speakers! It's an Indoeuropean language, descendant of Sanskrit.
These courses are developed by the Foreign Language Institute of the US government and released to the public domain. In the external link section you find also several other interesting resources.
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Hindi an Active Introduction and a Basic Course
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External Links:
These links are not a part of this course but you might find them useful for more information and study of the Hindi Language.