Learning Indian Languages Through Artificial Intelligence is what LILA is all about and LILA HINDI PRABODH is an intelligent self-tutoring system for learning Hindi. Sponsored by the Department of Official Language (DOL), Ministry of Home Affairs, this software has been designed by C-DAC for the employees of government organizations, Public Sector Undertakings, and for all those who want to learn Hindi from the beginning. The teacher can also use this package as an effective teaching aid that drastically reduces much of the routine drudgery of evaluating exercises, teaching grammar and narrating texts. The medium of instruction is English. On the completion of the course, the learner is expected to achieve basic functional knowledge of Hindi, enough to communicate in simple day-to-day situations, a sound base of written Hindi and its core functional grammar. The constant interactive participation through the computer in the self-learning process is likely to give the learner an extra edge over the skill of reading, writing, speaking and grammar.

The two other software under development in this series are:
LILA-Hindi Praveen & LILA-Hindi Pragya, as the next stages of learning Hindi.

LILA HINDI PRABODH contains 37 graded lessons in two CDs and runs on the Windows platform. Every lesson has the input of lesson objectives, structure exposure, narrative text, new vocabulary, word family, grammatical notes, structure practice, interactive exercises and evaluation texts with scores. The software also contains an on-line Hindi-English dictionary. A separate alphabet module has also been provided which enables the learner to familiarize himself with the Devanagari alphabet, mode of writing, words and their pronunciation.

The speech interface provided in the software enables the learner to listen to the standard pronunciation of any narrative text, sentence or word. It also enables the student to record pronunciation and compare it with the standard pronunciation given in the package.

For easy comprehension, every lesson narrative has a video clip running along side the text where, the spoken sentences in the text get highlighted in a different colour. A pictorial vocabulary module gives the meaning, picture and pronunciation of common words of certain categories.

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