Hindi. Reviews

Makes it much easier for me when watching Hindi films to lookup words I didn't know. Room for improvement: 1.) allow clicking on any word in a definition to look up that word. This makes it easy to check your understanding of the definition, with forward and reverse lookups, which you should always do when using a foreign language dictionary. 2.) please give fuller definitions along with synonyms and near synonyms. Hindi, like English, is a language that comes from multiple sources, and has a correspondingly large vocabulary. Just seeing one Hindi word for each English word, and vice versa, makes me think I'm not getting the full story. Taking suggestions 1 above and 2 together would make it much easier to make sure we use a word with the right nuance, as well as right basic meaning. 3.a.) not confident voice always gives accurate उच्चारण (pronunciation.) 3.b.) please add a feature to easily slow down the audio playback on the pronunciation guide. All the pronunciations are delivered very fast, which might be a good model of how one native speaker would talk to another, but makes it very hard for beginning and intermediate learners to catch what is being said and thereby improve their own pronunciation and auditory recognition. 4.) in learning Hindi, it is important to know where each word comes from: from Urdu, from native Sanskrit, from English, from Portuguese, or from some other source. If from Sanskrit, it would be good to know if the word had evolved organically with the language from ancient times (tadbhava,) retained the same meaning and spelling as an ancient word (tatsama,) or was some neologism cooked up recently from Sanskrit roots. If from Urdu, it would be good to know if it ultimately comes from Persian, Arabic, Turkish, etc. This is not just of academic interest. The language of origin affects what prefixes and suffixes the word combines with, and other grammatical and vocabulary rules. It also can strongly affect nuance. Likewise, it would be helpful to native Hindi speakers to know the origin of each English word: Anglo-Saxon, French, Latin, Greek, Spanish, Celtic, or, of course, Hindi! The suggestions above, if taken, would lift this app to the state-of-the-art in dictionaries, but the suggestion below would push the envelope with a feature seen nowhere else, in either software or dead-tree dictionaries: 5.) give some indication of frequency of use, like the Indian government does with it's list of the most common 10,000 words of basic Hindi, so that we don't inadvertently use some rare or archaic word when we are looking for a common one.

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Very use full app

Great dictionary

Suppppppop

Great Dictionary!

Really good one; goes both ways

Update stinks