This course presents basic grammar of Hindi, the Nagari writing system, conversation practice, oral drill, written exercises, lab work, and simple reading. In the spring quarter, the Urdu writing system is introduced. Autumn, Winter, Spring. SoAsia 232 or equivalent. The intermediate Hindi course presupposes a knowledge of the basic grammar of Hindi and requires a fair amount of reading and translating Hindi prose, along with discussion of advanced topics in Hindi grammar.
Regular attention is given to conversation and composition.
The class meets for about five hours a week. Autumn, Winter, Spring. This course sequence fulfills the Common Core foreign language requirement. The remainder of the course sequence is devoted to close analytical reading of simple Sanskrit texts, which are used to reinforce the grammatical study done in the first half of the course. The aim is to bring students to the point where they are comfortably able, with the help of a dictionary, to read simple, narrative Sanskrit.