Count Your Way Through India
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (873 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0876145772 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 24 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An introduction to the land and people of India accompanied by instructions on how to read and pronounce the numbers one through ten in Hindi.
A much needed book, but one with three major flaws. "Count Your Way through ." is a wonderful series, exposing children to the phoenetic sounds and cultures of other lands. "Count Your Way through India" is especially valuable since Hindi uses a different script than do most European languages. I believe there are two major errors in this book, and one omission. The introduction tells readers that both Hindi and Sanskrit use the same alphabet, or script, but does not give its name: the "Deva Nagri" script. This is, of course, merely a point of information, but it seems it would be a valuable piece of knowledge.. S. Sengupta said Shame on us. for tolerating (and paying for) such nonsense content in a book on India when there are so many Indian professionals living in the US now. According to this book the number eight in Hindi is supposed to be "Art" !!! Is this a joke about American accent from a certain region? It would have been to me, if I hadn't already paid for the book. Why do these publishers still get this kind of tourist-turned-India-experts to write and illustrate these books when the world today is supposedly so inter-connected and all? It is obviously also the age of publishers not car