There are currently numerous online language learning tools that offer and facilitate free Hindi language learning. You might also have Hindi-speaking friends who would be willing to help you know more about the language. Certainly, you need not spend some dollars just to know and learn Hindi. Here are practical ways on how you could learn Hindi for free. The writing is done from left to right wherein there is a lack of letter casing usage and the presence of a recognizable distinctive horizontal line that runs above the letters providing some sort of a link. As mentioned above Devanagari is the main script for Hindi but it is also part of the writing system of Nepali and Marathi. To be able to read, you must be able to master 10 vowels, 40 consonants, and 2 vocalizing techniques (nasalization and a kind of aspiration). Mouth parts To get the sounds right, six parts of the mouth (throat, palate, teeth, lips, nose, and the palate front) are used. To achieve the aspiration sound, the epiglottis is used to stop the air in the throat. Thus, the language is carried over and is used in almost every part of the globe where there are Hindi speaking Indian migrants. Many people strive to learn Hindi to communicate with such Hindi speakers. Are you intending to learn and speak a second language? There are many foreign languages to choose from. Another characteristic of Hindi consonants is that it contains a four-way distinction of phonation among plosives as compared to the two-way distinction commonly observed within the English system. The phonations consist of first, tenuis which is the counterpart of p in English as it is used in the word spin. Lack of resources The world s major publishers of language tutorial programs (Assimil, Pimsleur, Linguaphone) have managed to produce only the first level of Hindi language programs. So far, there are only few universities in the U.S. offering Hindi language classes. Some people feel this is caused by a lack of either resources or interest from the point of view of economic benefit.