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Intermediate Hindi


Course Description

Intermediate Hindi will cover select grammatical constructions, advanced vocabulary and excerpts from Hindi literature to promote reading and speaking proficiency.


Athena Title

INTERMEDIATE HINDI


Prerequisite

HNDI 2001-2001L


Semester Course Offered

Offered spring


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

The aim of the course will be to promote communicative competence in Hindi by incorporating most of the grammatical concepts and reading material considered important for the intermediate level of instruction. The course material will be selected and designed with a view to provide students with a wide range of vocabulary including near synonyms from Sanskritic('Tatsama' and 'Tadbhava') and Perso-Arabic sources. Conversational interaction with and among students will be facilitated through the use of varied topics that incorporate and highlight typically South Asian cultural and social contexts.


Topical Outline

Week 1:The 'WALA' construction. Reference guide to selected tense forms. Week 2: Compound verbs ('KAFI SE') Week 3: The Conjunctive Participle ('AADAT' and 'AADI') Week 4: Adjectives 'LAGNA' and 'AA REHNA' Week 5: 'KI VAJAH SE', 'KE KARAN', 'BINA' and 'BAGER' Week 6: Reduplicative expressions, a further use of 'BANANA' Week 7: Interrogatives as exclamations, Clause final 'NA' and 'KYA' Week 8: Participles+'REHNA', Indirect Commands Week 9: Stylistic shift of words, Politeness formulae Week 10: 'ZARA' and 'KYON NA', Expressions of Compulsion Week 11: 'VAISE TO' and ' AA KARNA' Week 12: Indirect Quotation and Unexpressed General Nouns Week 13: Further properties of 'HI', Compound subjects Week 14: Imperfective participles + 'JANA' Week 15: Derivational suffixes denoting gender, the use of English in Hindi


General Education Core

CORE IV: World Languages and Global Culture