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This course is offered in Term 2 ( May-Jun) and Term 4 (Oct-Dec) each year.
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 Friday 20 October 2023
Our 2023 Term 4 Hindi 304 course meets on Fridays from 6:00-7:30pm beginning on 20 October 2023 (NZ Time) and continues for eight consecutive weekly sessions. The last class of the Term is held on Friday 8 December 2023.
Our Hindi 304 course continues in the same time slot each Term.
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 the next day.
Honolulu, Hawai’i: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 7:00-8:30pm
US Pacific: begins Thu 19 Oct 2023, 10:00 -11:30pm
US Eastern: begins Fri 20 Oct 2023, 1:00-2:30am
London, UK: begins Fri 20 Oct 2023, 6:00-7:30am
Paris, France: begins Fri 20 Oct 2023, 7:00-8:30am
New Delhi, India: begins Fri 20 Oct 2023, 10:30am-12:00pm
Bangkok, Thailand: begins Fri 20 Oct 2023, 12:00-1:30pm
Singapore & Shanghai: begins Fri 20 Oct 2023, 1:00-2:30pm
Tokyo, Japan: begins Fri 20 Oct 2023, 2:00-3:30pm
Sydney, Australia: begins Fri 20 Oct 2023, 4:00-5:30pm
8 January 2023
Hindi 304: Conversational Hindi, Part 4
Our Hindi 304: Conversational Hindi Part 4 course is specifically designed for adults (and children over 10 yrs) who have completed the first year Introductory Hindi 101-104 and Intermediate Hindi 201-303 courses (or equivalent) and who wish to continue their language learning through conversational practice and learning additional Intermediate grammar.
Conversational Hindi 304 meets all year during school Terms on Fridays from 6:00-7:30pm. 2023 Term 4 classes begin on Friday 20 October 2023 and run for 8 consecutive weeks, with the last class of the Term held on Friday 8 December 2023. Our Conversational Hindi course will be held in the same time slot each Term.
Conversational Hindi 304 focuses on conversational practice but also includes reading short stories and dialogues in Devanāgarī (देवनागरी) script, learning new vocabulary for specific scenarios (e.g. cooking, shopping, travel, going to the bank, etc.), Hindi songs and ghazals, more advanced dialogues, and continued grammar instruction.
Week by week new material will be posted throughout the duration of the course. Video recordings of each weekly session will be posted here after 1-2 days after each class.
EarthDiverse Course Information
EarthDiverse Zoom instructions
2023T1 EarthDiverse Hindi textbook
Link to EarthDiverse's Hindi flashcard sets at Quizlet.com
todd's Hindi verb tenses cheat sheet!
20231020 T4.1 Hindi 304 class notes
20231020 T4.1 Hindi 304 video
20231027 T4.2 Hindi 304 class notes
20231027 T4.2 Hindi 304 video
20231103 T4.3 Hindi 304 class notes
20231103 T4.3 Hindi 304 video
20231110 T4.4 Hindi 304 class notes
20231110 T4.4 Hindi 304 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 class is a hybrid class with both in-person sessions in our classrooms and streamed live via Zoom.
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.
• This course has no assignments, quizzes, tests or exams.
• You will not need to purchase any reading materials.
• All classes encourage questions and group discussion.
• PDFs of class presentations and video recordings of each session will be posted 1-2 days after each session for the duration of the course. You are most welcome to come, sit back, relax, take part in and enjoy the discussions!
• Course fees include tea/coffee/snack at each session. Help yourself!
• There are no refunds for missed classes.
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 by the instructor is included in the course fees and is available as a PDF file on the course webpage (after registering)..
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 are posted to the course webpage as PDF files 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!
Completion of the Introductory Hindi 101-104 and Intermediate Hindi 201-303 (or equivalent).
• 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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