User talk:Shyboy16

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Hindi
On my en.wikipedia talk page you wrote
 * I've been doing some work on the Hindi wikibooks and I came across an article by you which uses and advocates iTrans transliteration scheme while IAST/ISO 15919 is becoming the de facto standard and is accepted by over 158 institutions. For somebody starting out it might be harder to read than iTrans, but it provides accurate pronunciation while there's no guarantee of the same in iTrans. Oh btw I was hoping I could get some help from you arranging the articles over there :)

I don't recall writing that specifically, but iTrans is very simple for beginners and doesn't require any special fonts. I also can't think of a situation where iTrans is phonetically inaccurate, but I'm no expert on the transcription systems. All I know is different books use different systems unfortunately, and some even invent their own. In any case the most important thing for Wikibooks is to be consistent. I do need to help out more over here, I haven't been that active in my Hindi learning lately, but I have quite a large number of resources. Some of them I downloaded for free and I can point you to. - Taxman (talk) 13:38, 17 April 2010 (UTC) It's fine if you'd like to reply here on Wikibooks I'll keep track of this. For resources, archive.org has a lot of scanned books on hindi grammar and such and google books has a few more that I didn't see in there. Search each for Hindi or Hindi grammar and you'll find quite a few. I've also had very good luck getting books from interlibrary loan, and have gotten some good Hindi grammar and Hindi teaching books that way. Here is a link to a list of some really good articles on language learning in general which can help in writing a really good Hindi Wikibook. Of the articles linked from there this one is very good. And yes most of the material here is very amateur or poorly organized. I imported some of the material from another source that gave permission and he admitted to not having polished it up much. It may be better to start from scratch as you have been doing, and only take ideas from the other materials. - Taxman (talk) 17:03, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm currently working on some grammar article, Verbs to be more specific. Once it is finished I'd look up the stuff you've linked me to. And I thought starting from scratch would be cumbersome but once looked through all the articles here I saw no other alternative option for a quality wikibook. Btw the first draft of some of my articles are ready so it'd be really nice of you if you can review them and give any suggestions. They of course, are just draft version, and will undergo editing for formatting and the text itself. But let me know what'd you think of them as a starting base. Shyboy16 (talk) 17:27, 17 April 2010 (UTC)