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Hindi class and Indian Culture

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Namaste friends ! These days I am teaching hindi to two students from Germany .these two students are students of Berlin University ,Germany.they are students of south asian study programme .

They came to know about me through internet.theirs name are Carolin and Shabina. however they know some  Hindi .Shabina could speak better than Carolin.

As they are here just for two week so they want to learn as much as possible.mostly we are talking during the class.during our conversation they are very much interested in knowing about Indian culture such as cremation rituals and its performance.they also wanted to know how a “”DOM”” ( a cast who cremate body at the ghats) is important for Hindus rituals.

They are learning two hours per day and in this class they are reading and translating story book.some time they are also doing exercise for practice

They need a certificate for showing in the university so that they may obtain credits.I will be writing the details of hours they learnt and their performance during the class

Hindi Lesson

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Darrin Commerford is a photographer from U.S.A currently taking picture around varanasi and also he likes to visit untapped place surrounding Varanasi.

He has started learning Hindi two or three weeks ago .he works basically on dally conversation and phrase .and also he likes to try to have the test of Indian chart (a very spicy with different kind of ingredients) he wanted to learn how to say i want one more sweet one as he likes to eat pani puri.

These days he is travelling to Rajasthan so in the last class he wrote couple of phrase which he can use during his travel in Rajasthan.such as how to say is this vegetable clean before it was made. and so on

He will be back after one week then he will continue his learning.

Australian Hindi Student

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Margaret wrote me mail in the month of November telling that she is interested in joining my Hindi course.as she said she got my information from wiki travel.I wrote her back that i will be available for her to teach Hindi.She is not beginner as she was learning in evening class in Sydney.she told me that she is very much interested in Indian culture.

Finally she arrived in Varanasi on first of January and I called in the hotel Ganges View if she can meet me for the lesson.at time varanasi was almost freezing so it was very difficult for her to have class in such cold.she told me that she want to take rest for few days.

On the fifth of January she called and wanted to have class.I went to hotel and I asked with prakash ji one of employee of Hotel Ganges View.She was standing at the reception when he said this is your Hindi teacher .having seen me she kept watching my face I don’t know why.I think my age seems to her too young to be Hindi teacher.I greeted her by saying Namaste and I said this is Binit as we had email conversation but we did not see each one.she said hello to me once she heard my name.

It was my first lesson with her she asked me how do i teach and what is my method.she told me that she has already finished chapter 8 of teach your self in Sydney.but she can’t speak.her big confusion was “want ,want to and should ” construction .she often get confused with “mujhe chai chahiye, or mai chai pina chahti hu,mujhe chai pina chahiye” .I explained her chahiye and should is “ko” construction and it will be used with oblique pronoun and want to is tense from of present habitual tense.

After getting the explanation she was very happy and particularly she was not confidence enough to make conversation.we were mostly talking on daily basis conversation.Besides this she was talking about village life how do people get work form local government,how a village get develop so on.but i did not know why she was asking about my village,what kind of my village is.Later on she told me that she is helping a family in Devaria district and that family was her auto rickshaw driver family.

She learned until 14th of February between this time she went to Devariya to see that family .she went to Jaipur to visit her family but she is still taking classes with Skype.

Online Hindi course

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For two weeks I am teaching Gabrila  online through skype .she is my old student from the vision of India semester programme of where there be dragons.she lives in New york city in U.S.A.she wanted to continue her Hindi as she is studying international development.how ever it not my first experience.I have already taught some of my old students from vancouver Canada and states.First day I had great experience with skype as there was not any problem but one the second day there was a little problem with Internet.

Now she is taking four hrs in a week.every Friday and Saturday we meet on 7.30 pm according to India time.I have already sent some teaching stuff on her email address and which she has got the print out and we work both together.how ever i have recommend her teach yourself by rupp snellbut once she will have confidence in speaking Hindi

Hindi course in mountain

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Princeton university has started Princeton Bridge year programme with where there be Dragons.This group consist of four students and two instructor and me.Instructor are Christina Rivera and Janvie (Janhwi).First of all we went to Kausani from Delhi.we took overnight train from old Delhi railway station.we stayed there for one week and later on we moved to kanda valley in village called sunar gaon.

we all were staying in family home stay accommodation in same house called ROSE.It is an organisation for rural organisation for social elevation.we were doing yoga in the morning under the guidance of janvie for one hour and then we had breakfast.after breakfast students and instructors used to go to site work.they had a project for building the house for a villagers who was very not capable enough to make his house own.so they contributed some money and helped volunteering.

Every evening from 6 pm to 8 pm I had my Hindi class with students.first week they had already learnt some basic in kausani .they were very hardworking and excited for learning Hindi.it was very impressive for me .for while one student was sick so we thought to change the class place as he was sick and he will be disturb but he personally requested to instructor for helding the class at the same place.students were very qurious to learn new stuff and they were memorising all the stuff which has been taught.

In the family there was one young lady and she was very active in doing the house hold things.she used make our breakfast,lunch ,evening tea and dinner.students were very interested in interviewing her about her life .custom ,culture,tradition  and festival.so one day we interviewed her and I was translating for them.

It is the tradition of mounatain that when ever they build new roof they sacrifice the goat.as Mr verna has already sacrifice the goat for his own roof.and they offer to worker as these people can not afford. when they were building the roof for the sadhu it is the name of the man for whom they were building the roof.since he can afford the goat sacrifice my student came to know and they wanted my helping getting goat.I asked with one of guy from the same family and he managed to get goat.two of students paid money for the goat.we went to work and villagers scarified the goat.this man was very happy as he couldnot offer gaoat to villagers.

We left for Delhi on 22nd of September by a car .Being living in plane area I am not used with hilly area so I was feeling sick travel.we came to kathgodam train station and took train for Delhi.upon arrival Delhi we stayed in a hotel called Garden view in Karolbagh area.after having breakfast christina ji told us to meet with one of mentors from salam balak in Delhi in pahar ganj.This guy shown us the street kids how they are studying and he told us about the his own experience of life as he was also a street kid in child hood.

Later on we went to cannaught palce and did some shopping.Instructor bought a kurta for me from fabindia a very well known shop among westerners.and we had lunch in south indian restaurant.and we took metro and came back to hotel.

Next morning we went to see Gandhi Museum near India gate and then we returned to hotel and we had lunch in raffels restaurant.in the evening we had overnight train for varanasi from new Delhi railway station.during our travel students watched bollywood movie.we arrived on 25th morning and one of our instructor acme to received us on tarin station.students were wram welcomed in varansi and move to programme house. we had lunch together as it was their first lunch in varanasi.It was awesome experience for me with this programme.

Dragons Students In varanasi

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Now the Dragons students are in Varanasi.in this semester there are twelve students and two instructors.My classes started on 16Th February.Jackie and Debi instructing the students with help of Bantuji.we have divided the students in two groups .each groups is of six students and in each group have one instructor.they started learning Hindi by using hand leaf paper .this is my new experience using hand leaf paper for teaching Hindi through computer print out.with the help of printout the students are very comfortable in reviewing and in drills.some of Hindi students are really doing very hard work for learning Hindi.this year one of the student doing his independent study project in Hindi.therefore he is learning every day one or two hour extra for his I.S.P.

Sarswati Pooja

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Saraswati is the goddess of learning education,art and sculpture.This festival is celebrated every year in the month of Mag panchami according to Hindu calendar(January or February).this festival is celebrated by every students ,person and all kind of professional .as every body is still learning in their field.mostly it is festival of students and teachers.earlier this festival was celebrated on few places but these days it has been celebrating in mass.like the every year this year also students did the pooja of saraswati.first day they establish deity and they did pooja in afternoon according to the right time of celebrations.during night people sang and danced and different kind of activities was held in different places.followed day they do the hawan(it is kind of ending part of the pooja) sometime they do next day and took the deity to the river with pump and show

Fifteen Hindi Lesson

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hI had just fifteen Hindi lesson with dragons student and they learn quickly all the conjugation of the verbs. they learn imperative,oblique pronoun conjugation of the transitive and intransitive verb which seems difficult in leaning Hindi.in the begning students were very nervous about the learning hindi but as I started taking lesson they began to communicate in hindi  asking about the first experience about the city means ”apko banars kaisa laga”.every student began to progress and the same time they learnt how to read and write the script of Hindi which is very helpful for reading them sign and the marks on the wall while traveling .Before departure of Group to Bodhgaya I had taken hindi written test for those student who are for the credit they and score good marks .