Offered:

  • Term 2 (May-June) and Term 4 (October-December) each year.

Date & Time:

  • Our 2022 Term 4 course meets on Wednesdays beginning 19 October 2022 from 4:00-5:30pm (NZ time) and meets for 8 consecutive weeks, with our last session on Wednesday 7 December 2022. Subsequent classes (Hindi 301-304) will be held in the same time slot for each cohort.

Time Zone equivalents:

for live-streaming Zoom Sessions from New Zealand

  • Honolulu, Hawai'i: begins Tue 18 Oct 2022, 5:00-6:30pm

  • US Pacific: begins Tue 18 Oct 2022, 8:00-9:30pm

  • US Eastern: begins Tue 18 Oct 2022, 11:00pm-12:30am

  • London, UK: begins Wed 19 Oct 2022, 4:00-5:30am

  • Paris, France: begins Wed 19 Oct 2022, 5:00-6:30am

  • New Delhi, India: begins Wed 19 Oct 2022, 8:30-10:00am

  • Bangkok, Thailand: begins Wed 19 Oct 2022, 10:00-11:30am

  • Singapore: begins Wed 19 Oct 2022, 11:00am-12:30pm

  • Sydney, Australia: begins Wed 19 Oct 2022, 2:00-3:30pm

Description:

  • Our Intermediate Hindi 204 course is specifically designed for adults (and children over 10 yrs) who have completed the first year Introductory Hindi 101-104 and Intermediate Hindi 201-203 courses and who wish to continue their language learning. This class may also be suitable for students who already read and write in Devanāgarī, and who may already have Intermediate Hindi grammar and vocabulary skills. If you are a potential new student and may wish to enrol in this course, please contact us.

  • Intermediate Hindi 204 continues with practice reading and writing in Devanāgarī (देवनागरी) script, and includes continued intermediate grammar, vocabulary and conversation. Subsequent Terms focus on new grammatical points, vocabulary and on improving conversational skills. Hindi film songs and ghazals continue to be introduced.

  • Note: Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time either in-person or via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are posted within 24 hours of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning session on a day and time of your choosing.

Meet our Instructor

Executive Director, Senior Lecturer Dr Todd Nachowitz, PhD

Dr Todd Nachowitz, PhD, is the Founder and Executive Director of EarthDiverse. Todd is a Hamilton-based lecturer, anthropologist, environmentalist and diversity educator. He previously taught in Religious Studies at the University of Waikato, teaching courses on Comparative Religion and Religious Fundamentalism & Extremism. Todd holds a Masters Degree in Development Anthropology from Syracuse University in upstate New York (1991) and a PhD from the University of Waikato (2015) in Political Science and Public Policy where he completed his thesis on diversity governance and the Indian diaspora in New Zealand.

Prior to settling in New Zealand in 1995, Todd lived and worked in the United States, India, Pakistan and Nepal. He spent 11 years in South Asia as the Academic Director for university study-abroad programmes in Varanasi, India (for the University of Wisconsin-Madison); Lahore, Pakistan (for the University of California-Berkeley); and Kathmandu, Nepal (for School for International Training, based in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA) focusing on language, culture and religion.

Todd speaks Hindi and Urdu, and is a specialist in comparative world religions and the history, religions, languages and cultures of South Asia. He also currently teaches our Hindi and Urdu language courses and the Religious Diversity courses at EarthDiverse.

Location:

EarthDiverse Centre, 401 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton (see map below ), or on-line via-Zoom.

Note: Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time either in-person or via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are posted within 24 hours of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning session on a day and time of your choosing.

Distance-learning:

This course has distance-learning options for those unable to attend the live class sessions in Hamilton. Students have three options for attending our courses once they have registered: attend in-person classes in our Hamilton classrooms at the regularly scheduled day and time, attend our live on-line classroom sessions via Zoom at the regular scheduled day and time, watch the live-recorded class sessions at your leisure, at a time, day and place more suited to your schedule. These options can be mixed and matched throughout the course to suit your own availability and location.

Distance-Learning options:

  • In addition to our in-person classes in Hamilton, our courses offer distance learning options for those unable to attend classes in-person. Live-streamed Hamilton classes are available via free Zoom software for those living outside the Waikato. Live-streaming allows you to participate fully in your own learning, ask questions of the instructor and participate fully in the same way as if you were in the physical classroom.

  • Those unable to attend the scheduled date and time of the actual class sessions, or those who need to miss a class or two due to previous engagements or unexpected illness, can watch any or all of the live-recorded video sessions on their computers, laptops, tablets or mobile devices and study at their own pace and in their own time.

  • Detailed instructions on how to access our distance learning components will be sent after completing your registration. There are no additional fees for this service. However, distance learners will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with a good quality web-camera (tablet devices and mobile phones can also access our live-streamed classes), a built-in microphone (most modern laptops have built-in microphones) or a headset with a microphone. You will also need to download and install the free Zoom software on your computer or device. Those accessing the video recordings will be able to do so with a simple web browser on any device.

Course curriculum

    1. EarthDiverse Zoom instructions

    1. 20221019 T4.1 Hindi 204 class notes

    2. 20221019 T4.1 Hindi 204 video

    1. 20221102 T4.2 Hindi 204 video

    2. 20221102 T4.2 Hindi 204 class notes

    1. 20221109 T4.3 Hindi 204 video

    2. 20221109 T4.3 Hindi 204 class notes

    1. 20221116 T4.4 Hindi 204 class notes

    2. 20221116 T4.4 Hindi 204 video

    1. 20221123 T4.5 Hindi 204 class notes

    2. 20221123 T4.5 Hindi 204 video

About this course

  • $150.00
  • 17 lessons
  • 12 hours of video content

Pricing options:

All prices in New Zealand dollars. All prices in NZ dollars and includes GST. Unwaged includes students, seniors and retirees.

Notes:

Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time either in-person or via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are posted within 1-2 days of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning session on a day and time of your choosing.

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites for this Course:

  • Completion of the Introductory series of Hindi 101-104, an the Intermediate Hindi 201-203 courses.

  • no prerequisites if you are already familiar with the Devanāgarī script and have some familiarity with Hindi grammar or spoken Hindi. Contact us to speak with the instructor about placement.

Materials:

  • A Hindi textbook is included in the course fees. This is posted on the course webpage and is available once you have registered for the course. You will only require a pen or pencil, a notebook for taking your own class notes, and a loose-leaf binder. Any notes that our instructor writes on the class whiteboard will be posted as a digital PDF to the course webpage so that you can print these out at home and add them to your own notebook.

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