Remember, it's never too late to register for a class, even after it's begun. You can always catch up with any sessions you may have missed by watching the video recordings of previous sessions. The time remaining to register before the first class session is below, so stop hesitating and get to it!
as in-person classes, live-streamed Zoom sessions and video recordings
• Term 1 (Feb-Apr ) and Term 3 (Jul-Sep) each year, pending sufficient enrolment.
• This course is offered as an in-person course at the EarthDiverse Centre in Hamilton, New Zealand, live-streamed via Zoom if you live elsewhere, and as video recordings of the live sessions if you cannot attend the regularly scheduled class.
Begins Tuesday 20 Feb 2024
• Our 2024 Term 1 Intermediate Hindi 301, Part 5 course meets on Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:30pm beginning on 20 February 2024 (New Zealand time). The course meets for eight consecutive weekly sessions. The final session will be held on Tuesday 9 April 2024.
• If you live outside of New Zealand and wish to Zoom in to our live class sessions, check the nearest local Time Zone equivalent below.
for live-streaming Zoom Sessions from New Zealand. If your Time Zone doesn't suit our live-streamed class, you can also access our courses by watching the live-recorded sessions that are posted to the course webpage each week, usually within 1-2 days.
Honolulu, Hawai'i: begins Mon 19 Feb 2024, 8:00-9:30pm
US Pacific: begins Mon 19 Feb 2024, 10:00-11:30pm
US Eastern: begins Tue 20 Feb 2024, 1:00-2:30am
London, UK: begins Tue 20 Feb 2024, 6:00-7:30am
Paris, France: begins Tue 20 Feb 2024, 7:00-8:30am
New Delhi, India: begins Tue 20 Feb 2024, 11:30am-1:00pm
Bangkok, Thailand: begins Tue 20 Feb 2024, 1:00-2:30pm
Singapore & Shanghai: begins Tue 20 Feb 2024, 2:00-3:30pm
Sydney, Australia: begins Tue 20 Feb 2024, 5:00-6:30pm
Hindi 301: Intermediate Hindi, Part 5
• This is Part 5 of an eight-part Intermediate course taught over eight successive school terms specifically designed for continuing Hindi learners. All of our language courses focus on acquiring reading and conversational skills, and learning about local culture. Our courses are designed for busy people: we do not expect you to study outside of class, nor do we assign homework (unless you’d like some!). Come and spend 12 class hours per Term (eight 1.5 hour weekly classes) learning Hindi and about South Asian culture, and have some fun too!
• Our Intermediate Hindi 301, Part 5 course is specifically designed for adults (and children over 10 yrs) who have completed the first year Introductory Hindi 101-104 and Intermediate Hindi 201-204 courses (or equivalent) and who wish to continue their language learning. If you are a potential new student and may wish to enrol in this course, please contact us.
• Intermediate Hindi 301 continues with reading practice in Devanāgarī (देवनागरी) script, and includes continued intermediate grammar, vocabulary, conversation and comprehension. New grammatical constructions, vocabulary and improving conversational skills are highlighted. Hindi stories, film songs and ghazals will begin to be introduced this year.
• Subsequent Term courses continue with Intermediate Hindi (i.e. our Hindi 302-304 courses), followed by Advanced Hindi in Year 4. All classes continue to include additional reading and comprehension practice, intermediate grammar, vocabulary, and conversation and will continue in the same time slot for the duration of the full course.
Week by week new material will be posted throughout the duration of the course. Video recordings of each weekly session will be posted here 1-2 days after each class.
EarthDiverse Course Information
EarthDiverse Zoom instructions
2024T1 EarthDiverse Beginning Hindi textbook (updated for 2024 Term 1)
Link to EarthDiverse's Hindi flashcard sets at Quizlet.com
todd's Hindi verb tenses cheat sheet!
20240220 T1.1 Hindi 301 class notes
20240220 T1.1 Hindi 301 video
20240227 T1.2 Hindi 301 class notes
शतरंज के खिलाड़ी (The Chess Players) by Sajajit Ray: watch this is you have a couple of hours to spare!
20240227 T1.2 Hindi 301 video
20240305 T1.3 Hindi 301 class notes
20240305 T1.3 Hindi 301 video
20240312 T1.4 Hindi 301 class notes
20240312 T1.4 Hindi 301 video
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.
This is a hybrid class with both in-person sessions in our classrooms and streamed live via Zoom.
All in-person classes are held at the EarthDiverse offices and classrooms located at 401 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton (located just north of the Hamilton Central Bus Station) (entrance is located on the side of the building, see map). Those looking for parking for our evening classes can park just in front of the building in any of the available car parks. Daytime parking can be found in our dedicated car parks, or free 2-hour on-street daytime parking can be found just in front of Anglesea Street.
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.
Live Zoom sessions and Video-Recordings
• 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.
Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are usually posted within 1-2 days of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning on a day and time of your choosing.
All materials are included in the course fees. These are developed by our instructors and distributed as PDF files on the course webpage.
An “Introductory Hindi” text 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 digital class notepad will be posted as a PDF to the course webpage so that you can print these out at home and add them to your own notebook.
A keen desire to continue your Hindi language learning!
Introductory Hindi 101-104 and Intermediate Hindi 201-204, or equivalent knowledge.
Please contact us if you have some Hindi learning and wish to join this course.
Open to both adults and kids 10 years and older.
The method of teaching is based on social interaction for the first part, therefore the lesson is easier to remember. I like reviewing the lesson and often ...
Read MoreThe method of teaching is based on social interaction for the first part, therefore the lesson is easier to remember. I like reviewing the lesson and often put on during some down time. Todd's vast experience, idioms, memories are often a feature of the learning experience which I enjoy the most!
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