Practice, record and share your audio to a given prompt and provide comment back to the audios from others. An excellent opportunity to work on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and writing skills.

• Hosts: Anita (Michigan, US)  & Sheila (UK) 

• When: In your own time

• Read our welcome document

Here is an opportunity to practice speaking Hindi quickly in an environment without any feedback/corrections. Each person will see a picture and then have one minute to talk about the things in the picture or something they are reminded of, the topic is less important than just speaking.

When the time is up, there will be a new picture for the next person. The goal is to reduce speaking anxiety and discourage feeling the need to speak perfectly. Since there will be no error correction, we can focus on the flow of communication. People at any learning level are welcome!

• Date: Friday 

• Host: Ellen

• When: 7:00am PDT, 2pm UTC
  
  

Another  opportunity to practice speaking together.

The idea is simple and interactive:
We will work with one picture at a time, probably 1-4 pictures per session. Everyone will take turns adding something about the same image until we fully describe it together.

Depending on your comfort level, you can:

• Simply repeat something that someone else said about the picture,

• Use simple vocabulary or single verbs,

• Speak in full sentences,

• Use imaginative or creative sentences

• Date: Wednesday 15th April

• Host: Ellen, Marwa

• When: 9 am PST (San Francisco), 5PM UTC

• “Paused for Now”

This practice group is for beginners working through Delacy's book, Elementary Hindi. A good practice session for beginners!  A little experience with Hindi and Devanagari is helpful (such as taking Pingu Learns Hindi).

• Host: Sharon ji (Ontario, Canada)

• When: Thursdays at 5pm UTC (12pm Eastern Time)

A fun and interactive session to learn Hindi through real texts from Indian school books . In each session, we’ll pick a story, poem, article, or one-act play from a school chapter. Then we’ll listen to it read aloud by a  native Hindi speaker ,and afterwards, we’ll read it together — page by page, sentence by sentence — translating it one after another , then solve the questions at the end of the chapter if any .

Goal: to improve our listening, reading, comprehension, and pronunciation skills naturally and enjoyably 

Each session opens a small window  into Indian literature and life  — through reading, listening, and discussion.

It’s not just reading… it’s a complete language experience! 

 A light, enjoyable session — full of real Hindi and real life! 

• Hosts: Marwa

• When: Mondays at 7pm UTC

• “Paused for Now”

We have gone through the whole Pingu Learns Hindi (PLH) book but we will use the PLH topics for our sessions and build on it. Devanagari script will be used. Believing that one of the best ways for us to learn the language is by teaching others, we take turns to collaborate and facilitate each session. We encourage those who join us to do the same.

• Hosts: Scott ji & Jes ji

• When: Saturdays at 3am UTC (11am Philippine Time)

⁠⁠During this practice session you will read a Devanagari sentence,  attempt to translate it, and hear the translation.  Discussion in the group of any points to learn from each sentence.
HOST:  Jay Dee Ji
When:
Fridays: ⁠3 pm New York City (US Eastern)

These are children's stories of up to 250 simple words, with repetition. We read from the Devanagari script, tackle complex conjuncts as and when we encounter them and listen to the audios to help with pronunciation. A great way to build up vocabulary and see grammar in action.

• Host: Himani, Marwa, and Priya

• When: Tuesdays at 4:00pm CST (Stockholm)

• “Paused for Now”

These are children's stories of up to 250 simple words, with repetition. We read from the Devanagari script, tackle complex conjuncts as and when we encounter them and listen to the audios to help with pronunciation. A great way to build up vocabulary and see grammar in action.

• Hosts: Vena (EST)

• When:
  Mondays at 2pm UTC (7am Pacific Time, 10 am EST)

Join us as we work together to learn grammar topics, explore them being used in Hindi media, and practice using them in forming our own sentences.
HOST:  Austin
When: Please note the DAY is TIME ZONE dependent
Tuesdays:
•⁠  ⁠6 pm Honduras
•⁠  ⁠⁠8 PM US Eastern
•⁠  ⁠⁠9 pm Uruguay 

Wednesdays:
•⁠  ⁠5:30 AM India
•⁠  ⁠⁠7 AM Vietnam
•⁠  ⁠⁠8 AM Philippines 

HOSTS:  Ellen
When: 4:30 pm UTC Sundays
That's immediately after Ashu-ji's Sunday Class!
In this prompt-based speaking practice session we will build confidence by taking turns answering practical, everyday discussion questions in a relaxed setting 

We practice Hindi with all questions, comments, in Spanish. No English. After introductions, we practice using Snell's book, Hindi Para Principiantes. We may also use Gloria ji's book, Libro de Frases. We sometimes also discuss Hindi songs or movies,  and have presentations on comparative grammar.

• Hosts: Carmen ji (Honduras) & Maggie ji 

• When: Wednesdays at 6pm CST (Honduras time)
  Check your timezone carefully.  Depending on your location this session might be on Thursday for you!  It is Thursday, 12am UTC.

An hour set aside for Intermediate learners to go over and review different topics we are struggling with. We go over any topics related to grammar, speaking, listening and reading. There is no set curriculum and a lot of material will come from topics we’ve seen in other classes.

• Host: Shan

• When: Wednesdays 11:30am EST 

Level 2 stories are up to 600 words and introduce simple concepts. At level 1, we usually did one story per week to give us plenty of time to review and take on board but we expect some Level 2 stories will take more than 1 week. We read from the Devanagari script, tackle complex conjuncts as and when we encounter them and listen to the audios to help with pronunciation. A great way to build up vocabulary and see grammar in action.

• Host: Sheila ji (UK)

• When: Mondays at 4:30pm UK time 

• Read our welcome document

Note: Advanced
Sessions will focus on free-flowing conversation: bring your stories, questions, and random thoughts.

From time to time, we may also introduce a specific discussion topic or invite a native speaker.

Good for learners at the advanced ACTFL level (or CEFR B2).

If you can keep a conversation going and express opinions with some ease, you’ll feel very comfortable.

Give it a try!

• Hosts: Anita ji, Claire ji, Maggie ji, Mastram ji, Tina ji 

• When: Saturdays at 5:30pm UTC (9:30am Pacific Time)
   

Reading on our own? Struggling with vocabulary, with comprehension, with interpretation, with translation? Sharing with other HU readers can help . Helping each other is key. If you can explain it to someone else , then you probably understand it.

The forum provides a means of collecting information and thoughts on a per story basis. We share vocabulary lists, grammar notes, our questions and thoughts on those passages we have found difficult. There is  no schedule for reading a particular story, just read at your own pace.
We dig deep into vocab, grammar and meaning.

Join in the usual with a message posted in Discord Practice-session sign up.

Once in you will to begin with see entries for three stories tagged by author.

Tagore - समाज-का-शिकार

Premchand - शतरंज के खिलाड़ी

Manto - टोबा टेकसिंह

The initial post on each provides a publicly available url to the story text in Hindi. Start a new story discussion using the story title, and providing a url to the public Hindi text, add audio url if you have found one.

No fixed Zoom sessions, at least as yet. Members of course can use adhoc Discord video calls  whenever they want to.

How to Join: Drop a message on #practice-signup on Discord

Questions: Direct to Sheila or Sarah_Louise in #practice-sessions on Discord