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HINDI 201 | Intermediate Hindi I

Instructor: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
Status: Next offering to be announced

ENROLLMENT OPTIONS

Course Description

The focus of this course is to develop students’ linguistic (grammar and vocabulary), communicative (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), and cultural competence. The course will follow Dr. Ranjan's and his colleagues’ online textbook, Hindi-Urdu.

HINDI 201 aims to develop students’ proficiency up to the intermediate mid or intermediate high level of the American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency scale. The pedagogical approach of this course will be primarily communicative, however, we HINDI 201 will adopt various techniques to meet the learning styles of the students in a unique online learning environment. By the end of the first term, students will have the intermediate level of skills to read and write in Hindi, and to handle interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes of language communication along with cultural appropriateness in Hindi.

HINDI 201 will provide strong foundation for those wishing to continue their study of the language, travel and effectively communicate in India, begin translation work, engage with Hindi-language films, and more!

Cover of Basic Hindi 1 by Rajiv Ranjan, with a collage of black-and-white photographs of people in India

Students Will Receive: 

  • 18 Zoom live class sessions + recordings (90 min)
  • Up to 27 Hours of CE credit with YA
  • Yogic Studies Certificate upon completion (PDF)
  • Access to the private Community Forum

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan

Professor of Hindi and Urdu

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is an Associate Professor of Hindi and Urdu. He received his PhD in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) from the University of Iowa in 2016 and has taught Hindi and Urdu in the U.S. since 2010, both in the classroom and online. He taught an immersion program for the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught in a study abroad context for the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) in India. He is the author of the open educational resource (OER) textbooks Basic Hindi and Basic Urdu. His primary research area is generative approaches to SLA, and his interests also include socio-cultural approaches to SLA, second language writing and speaking, language pedagogy, and morpho-syntax.

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan

"Hindi 101 with Dr. Ranjan is well organized and rich. He is skilled at making the grammar come alive by engaging the students with examples and stories. I suggest this course for beginners, but especially recommend it for intermediate students who wish to improve their Hindi and have some tools to better understand the Indian Tradition."

— Stefania Floreani, Yoga Teacher, Italy

"Dr. Ranjan is a compassionate and passionate teacher of Hindi, and I would recommend his classes to anyone looking to learn this beautiful language."

— HINDI 101 Student

Enrollment is now closed.

Regular Tuition

$300

One-Time Payment

  • Lifetime access to HINDI 201

Regular Tuition

$100 x 3

Three Monthly Payments

  • Lifetime access to HINDI 201

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