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Reddit mentions of Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi Script (Teach Yourself Beginner's Script Series) (Hindi Edition)
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The biggest issue with learning Hindi is the lack of resources. Most resources that are common aren't actually made by linguists or people who learned Hindi as a second language. Rather they're made by bilingual natives who rely on either their intuition or traditional Indian teaching methods (which work better if you already speak another Indian language fluently). Both of which, for an English native speaker, are not that great (read: very bad).
First learn how to read/write. There's a lot of good resources for that online, but I've heard great things about this book. That said, you could always just get a native's help, (tbf that's exactly what I did, and you don't miss much). Basically, however you do it, learn to read/write.
Teach Yourself Hindi is basically the holy bible of learning Hindi. It's by and large the greatest resource created for a language with few quality resource. Read it, learn it, memorize it. If anyone actually learned Hindi as a second-language learner (without speaking another Indian language) and didn't use this book, I'd be amazed (please pass me your resources too).
As supplemental resources, this website, by a Hindi learner who's also a linguist, so it goes even more in depth. A Primer on Modern Standard Hindi is basically a textbook written by linguists for linguists learning Hindi, so it goes even more in depth than the other two.
After Teach Yourself Hindi, just immerse yourself in native content (Hindi books, Bollywood, Hindi TV, etc.). Any questions can be looked up in the 2 supplemental resources or can be asked on this forum, which is pretty active (I've gotten responses within 24 hours consistently).
There's also no great Hindi-English dictionary. In a pinch (or for checking spelling in case you heard a word from a movie/TV show) Google Translate helps with 1-word translations. Anything beyond that though is inaccurate.
Good luck! Hindi's a great language to learn.
Rupert Snell's Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi Script has been invaluable to me for learning Devanagari, as a nonnative speaker.
http://www.amazon.com/Yourself-Beginners-Script-Series-Edition/dp/0340860227