Hindi at CU Boulder

Newsletter November 2008

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This is the November Hindi Newsletter, which is a special on the various November festivals. Enjoy it!

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Here is an old newsletter (page 2 page3)as an example. It was made in Spring 2008 by the students of the first, second and third year Hindi.

Online Hindi Study Materials

2008-11-02T10:44:00.001-07:00

For those of you who want to have extra exercises and dialogues, you can check the website

http://taj.chass.ncsu.edu/

Google and Gmail in Hindi

2008-11-02T09:54:00.004-07:00

It is possible to Google in Hindi. Go to http://www.google.co.in/

You can choose the Indian language in which you want to Google. You can just type your search topic in transliteration (English alphabet). There will be a drop down menu as you type, showing the word you are typing in Hindi. Using Google in Hindi will take you directly to available online Hindi sources.

Gmail
You can now have your settings on Gmail in Hindi. Go to http://mail.google.com/mail/ and create an account or, if you already have one, go to 'Settings' and choose 'Hindi' fron the drop down menu. While this will turn your account into Hindi, it will not allow you to actually mail in Hindi...

Hindi Online Newspapers

2008-11-02T09:41:00.003-07:00

Here are a few links to Hindi newspapers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/ (no fonts download necessary)
http://epaper.naidunia.com/ (no fonts download necessary)
http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/ (no fonts download necessary)
http://www.hindimilap.com/ (no fonts download necessary)
http://www.bhaskar.com/ (no fonts download necessary)
http://www.navabharat.net/ (download fonts from the website)

Warning: Be careful with the online Rajasthan Patrika, as many have announced this website as an 'attack website', causing severe computer problems.

Spring 2009

2008-11-02T09:26:00.003-07:00

On offer in Spring 2009:

Beginning Hindi: HIND 1020 M-F:10-10.50 MUEN E114
Intermediate Hindi: HIND 2020: M-F 11-11.50 MUEN E114
Advanced Hindi: HIND 3020: M-F 12-12.50 MUEN E114

For more info or in case of schedule clashes, contact Christine.Everaert@colorado.edu

Syllabus HNDI 1010

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http://spot.colorado.edu/~everaert/HNDI_1010_Fall_2007.pdf

Syllabus HNDI 2010

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http://spot.colorado.edu/~everaert/HNDI_2010_Fall_2007.pdf

Syllabus HNDI 3010

2007-11-13T18:22:00.000-07:00

http://spot.colorado.edu/~everaert/HNDI_3010Syll.pdf

दीवाली

2007-10-26T21:51:00.000-06:00

HNDI 1010 के विद्यार्थी : लिखना कि तुम इस छोटी क्लिप में क्या देखते हो ? हम हमारी दीवाली पार्टी में क्या खाते हैं और क्या करते हैं ?
HNDI 2010 के विद्यार्थी : लिखना कि जो चीजें हम यहाँ देखते हैं , उनका मतलब क्या है ? क्या हम दीवाली पर उनका इस्तेमाल करेंगे ? किस के लिए ? क्यों ?
HNDI 3010 के विद्यार्थी : लिखना कि दीवाली का इतिहास क्या है ? दीवाली कैसा और क्यों मनाया जाता है ?

2007-10-05T09:52:00.000-06:00

Event announcement

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November 9th is Diwali!Get ready to celebrate!

HNDI 3010 - Fall 2007

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Advanced Hindi I

MTWRF from 1-1.50 pm in HUMN 335

The first meeting will be on Monday, August 27th. The syllabus will be up on CULink the week before the start of the course, as will be the material for the first classes. Please check and print.

HNDI 2010 - Fall 2007

2007-07-15T16:45:00.000-06:00

Intermediate Hindi I

MTWRF from 2-2.50 pm in CHEM 131

The first meeting will be on Monday, August 27th. The syllabus will be up on CULink the week before the start of the course, as will be the material for the first classes. Please check and print.

HNDI 1010 - Fall 2007

2007-07-15T16:43:00.000-06:00

Beginning Hindi I

MTWRF from 3-3.50 pm in KTCH 118

The first meeting will be on Monday, August 27th. The syllabus will be up on CULink the week before the start of the course, as will be the material for the first classes. Please check and print.

HNDI 1020

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This course is for the first time on offer at CU Boulder this semester. This is the syllabus. For further questions, feel free to contact the instructor.

Hindi 1020 - Beginning Hindi II

Spring 2007

Instructor:

Christine Everaert (Christine.Everaert@colorado.edu; office: Eaton Humanities 225

Office Hours: Monday 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. or by appointment

Classes:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: 10:00 - 10:50 a.m. - CHEM 133. There are 5 classes a week, every day one fifty-minute class; two sessions are conversational classes, three sessions are used for grammar, translation exercises etc.

Course description and objectives:

Translation of texts at home, in which you have to deal with increasingly difficult grammatical and syntactic structures; Hindi texts with already acquired and new vocabulary and grammatical structures will be used.

The Hindi texts deal with different subjects, which provide the base for the translation exercises from English to Hindi and for the conversational classes. The translation exercises are inspired by the topics and grammatical elements and structures in the Hindi texts. Not only do those exercises enlarge your vocabulary but also help you to master the grammar and form your own sentences. Role-plays will deal with increasingly complex situations and conversations like shopping at a typical Indian market or order food in an Indian restaurant, etc.

The importance of conversation will become more significant in the second semester. Pronunciation, understanding and further acquiring of the grammar are the majors. Listening and writing skills will be improved by means of audio material and dictations.

Goals: By the end of the Hindi 1020 course, in theory you will master about seventy percent of the Hindi morpho-syntactic grammar i.e. declension of nouns and adjectives, elementary syntactic structures and forming the main verb tenses (Continuous Present/Past, Future, Subjunctive and Perfect and a part of the auxiliary verbs). Some of these grammatical structures however have a very complex usage, which you will study and practice further in the next levels of Hindi. At the end of Hindi 1020, you will have collected a basic vocabulary of around one thousand five hundred words. You will be able to understand and participate in basic conversations that will enable you to engage in simple social conversations and manage to provide in basic needs if you were to go to India.

Required materials:

McGREGOR, R.S. 1995. Outline of Hindi Grammar, Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. Oxford: OUP.

McGREGOR, R.S. 1997. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, Delhi: OUP.

PARIKH, S.S. & Plukker, D.F. 1996. Hindi - Transliterated Hindi - English Dictionary. Delhi: Allied Publishers Limited.

Class attendance and preparations :

Class attendance is mandatory. You must prepare for every class. If you come to class without preparations, you will be allowed to attend the class, but you will not be allowed to participate actively. Preparations will be corrected collectively in class and all the grammatical elements that occur in those sentences will be analyzed and explained further.

Unexcused absence or coming to class without preparation will not be penalized up to three times; however, each further unexcused absence or unprepared attendance will result in a loss of 3% of the final grade. More than six absences or unprepared attendances per year will result in failing the course.

Notes will be handed out to you, but it is advisable that you take notes yourself as well.

Grading and evaluation:

Exams: 35%
Class participation and preparation: 15%
Assignments and papers: 15%
Conversational classes: 15%
Tests: 20%

Assignments and exam policy:

Any assignment should be handed in on the due date. Handing in one calendar day late will result in loss of 2% of the grade; assignments more than one day late will not be accepted and as a consequence, you will not be credited for that assignment.

In case of attested illness on the day the assignment was set, you should come to see me as soon as you get back to class. You will be given the full number of days to complete the assignment, counted from the day you received the assignment. In case of unexcused absence, you are expected to hand in the assignment without delay on the due date.

Personal improvement and effort made during the semester will also be taken into consideration for and will be reflected in your final grade.

As Hindi is a modern language, there will be a written and oral examination, because both writing-skills and skills in reading/pronunciation (and to a lesser extent, conversation) have to be evaluated. No make-up exams will be given, other than in exceptional circumstances. If absence from the exam is unavoidable, you should inform me at the earliest opportunity.

Individual accommodations:

If you qualify for accommodations because of a disability, please submit a letter from Disability Services in a timely manner. For further information, please consult the website http://www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices/ or contact 303-492-8671, Willard 322.

Problems and questions:

Classes are highly interactive: you will be able and encouraged to ask any questions you want to ask. Often, if a question or problem arises, you will not be the only one in class with this question. You can benefit from each other’s questions. However, if you do encounter problems which cannot be dealt with in class, do not hesitate to visit us during office hours or contact us by e-mail.

HNDI 1010

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Hindi 1010 - Beginning Hindi I

This course was first offered at CU in the Fall 2006 and will be offered again in the Fall 2007. This is the syllabus from last fall semester. For questions, feel free to contact the instructor.

Instructor:

Christine Everaert (Christine.Everaert@colorado.edu; office: Eaton Humanities 225)

Classes:

There are 5 classes a week, every day one fifty-minute class

Course objectives:

Getting acquainted with the Devanagari script and all its peculiarities (11 vowels, 33 consonants and an extensive collection of ligatures).
To acquire basic vocabulary and grammatical structures.
To develop communicative skills for basic conversation.
To translate simple sentences and texts from Hindi to English and from English to Hindi, with special attention for cultural elements incorporated in the texts.

Required materials:

McGREGOR, R.S. 1995. Outline of Hindi Grammar, Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. Oxford.
McGREGOR, R.S. 1997. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary. Delhi: OUP.

PARIKH, S.S. & Plukker, D.F. 1996. Hindi - Transliterated Hindi - English Dictionary. Delhi: Allied Publishers Limited.
CD-ROM: EuroTalk, Talk now! Learn Hindi - Beginning Level

If students wish to buy an English-Hindi dictionary, I recommend:

KAPOOR, B. 1999. Practical English-Hindi Dictionary. Delhi: Prabhat Prakashan.

Class attendance and preparations:

Notes will be handed out to you, but it is advisable that you take notes yourself as well.

Grading and evaluation:

Exams: 35%
Class participation and preparation: 20%
Assignments and papers: 15%
CD-Rom and conversational classes: 10%
Tests: 20%

Assignments and exam policy:

Individual accommodations:

Problems and questions:

Goals:

In the first semester, the emphasis will be on mastering the script, pronunciation and basic grammatical elements and structures. In this semester, 10 hours will be spent on mastering the script, 26 hours will go to translating texts from Hindi to English and explaining grammar, 21 hours will be spent on translating from English into Hindi with special attention going to the different grammatical peculiarities and 18 hours will go to listening and conversational exercises. The importance of conversation will become more significant in level 2. In the first semester of the first level, script, pronunciation and basic grammar are the majors.

By the end of the Hindi 1010 course, the students will master the script and pronunciation, as well as the basic grammar, i.e. declension of nouns and adjectives, elementary syntactic structures and the main verb tenses (Present, Imperfect, Imperative). They will have collected a basic vocabulary.

हिंदी - अँगरेज़ी - हिंदी शब्दकोश

2007-03-08T21:35:00.000-07:00

Hindi - English - Hindi Dictionaries

Following links are online dictionaries that can be used without installing special software or fonts:

Platts Dictionary Online
English-Hindi Online Dictionary

देवनागरी लिपि

2007-03-08T21:27:00.000-07:00

The Devanagari script

Following links might help you master the Devanagari script and pronunciation of the Hindi alphabet:

A Devanagari script tutor from SOAS London
A Devanagari script tutor from The Australian National University

International Comfort Food Day

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