First Year Hindi I

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

The main objective of this year-long, introductory Hindi course is to enable students to develop usable proficiency in Hindi in speaking, reading, writing, listening, and knowledge of formal grammar. The primary text for the course is Rupert Snell’s (With Simon Weightman) Complete Hindi textbook with online audio, which develops each of these basic skills in parallel. Students’ progress in learning Hindi is greatly enhanced by learning the Devanāgarī writing system early in the semester. Thus, we will first focus upon learning this script with the aim of quickly abandoning the crutch of Romanization. After mastering the writing system, we will move on to learning grammar, reading, writing, speaking, etc. Learning is measured through regular quizzes, two midterms and a final project.