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Learning Hindi without Devanagari?
Just started out on your Hindi course - the system itself is super cool and I'm enjoying learning with it. My question: I'm not so much interested in learning Devanagari, I rather want to focus on listening and speaking. I.e. for me it would be better if I can always use the English letters instead (e.g. khaana instead of खाना).
Any possibility I can change the settings?
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Devanagari is fairly easy, logical, and very phonetically reliable. I think going to the trouble to learn to speak Hindi (a huge but worthwhile challenge) and depriving yourself of being able to then read in Devanagari (easy) might really hold you back unnecessarily.
Hindi speakers do write in the Roman alphabet a lot (in text messages, movie titles, etc), but they also use the Devanagari alphabet mostly, so most good resources will be in Devanagari.