FALL'07 Elem Hindi I Rice Weekly Schedule

Fall 2007 Hindi 101 Elementary Hindi I
Weekly Schedule

A complete list of topics to be covered in the semester.

Topics of the week

Week Sep 25-Sep 27
- Text 1 vocabulary
- Personal Pronouns continued
- Verb honaa simple present and past continued
- Nouns continued
- Quiz 2: Th Sep 27
- Cardinal numbers till "13" continued
- Text 2 continued
- Terms of relationships continued
- Adjectives.
- Simple sentence word order continued
- Interrogatives continued
- Aggregative dono
- yahaa~, vahaa~ kahaa~, jahaa~
- itnaa, utnaa, kitnaa, jitnaa
- Particle to
- Rhetorical na?
- Emphatic hii
- Suffix waala/waalii
- Possessive Pronouns
- Introduction to some ways of possessing in Hindi: possessive particle kaa, ke, kii
- Colours
- Introduction to verb infinitive
- Introduction to imperatives
Topics covered so far shall be posted here.
- Week Sep 18-Sep 20
  - Text 1 continued
  - Personal Pronouns continued
  - Verb honaa simple present and past continued
  - Nouns
  - Adjectives
  - Simple sentence word order continued
  - Interrogatives continued
  - Text 2
  - Aggregative dono
  - Cardinal numbers till "13" continued
  - yahaa~, vahaa~ kahaa~, jahaa~
  - Emphatic hii
  - Possessive Pronouns
  - Introduction to verb infinitive
  - Introduction to imperatives
  - Week Sep 11-Sep 13
    - Hindi script continued.
    - Voice inflexion
    - Text 1.
    - Personal Pronouns.
    - Verb honaa simple present and past.
    - Simple sentence word order.
    - Interrogative kahaa.
    - Cardinal numbers till "13".
    - Quiz 1: We Sep 12
  - Week Sep04-Sep 06
    - Conversational features and Greetings continued
    - Addressing people
    - Devanagari script and Hindi sound system continued
    - Interrogative kyaa?, kaun?, kaise/kaisii?, kyo? continued
    - bhii
  - Week Aug 28-Aug 30
    - Introducing oneself
    - Some Conversational features and Greetings
    - Devanagari script and Hindi sound system
    - Addressing people
    - Interrogative kyaa?, kaun?, kaise/kaisii?, kyo?
    - bhii
  Quiz and Exam schedule: .
  
  We Sept 12th: Quiz
  Th Sept 27: Quiz
  Tu Oct 9th: Exam 1
  Th Oct 18th: Quiz
  Th Nov. 1st : Quiz
  We Nov 14th : Exam 2
  Tu Dec 04, We Dec 05 and Th Dec 06: Individual Project presentation.
  In addition to the above we shall have occasional "pop" quizes.
  
  naatak (Skit) schedule:
  
  Th Oct. 4 : naatak 1
  Th Oct 25 : naatak 2
  
  gshah@rice.edu
  last updated 08/25/07