Learning Hindi
Dr. Chandra Mukherji, Visiting Lecturer in Hindi at the Centre for Language Learning (CLL), hosted a one-day workshop, “Orientation for Hindi Learners” for learners and teachers of Hindi on February 21. The workshop, held in collaboration with the Indian High Commission was officially opened by HE Sri Gouri Shanka Gupta, High Commissioner for the Republic of India. Pundit Dr. Rampersad Parasram spoke on “Development of Hindi in Trinidad & Tobago.” Another participant was Dr. Deepak Kumar Pandey, Second Secretary for Hindi and Culture of the High Commission. The participants and visitors were welcomed to the CLL and the Campus by Dr. Beverly-Anne Carter, Director of the CLL.
Dr. Mukherji who arrived in Trinidad and Tobago in October 2015 is on assignment from Government Degree College for Women, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Teĺangana State, India where she is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Hindi. She is the most recent academic who has been sent to UWI St. Augustine by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to support the teaching of Hindi as a foreign language. Dr. Mukherji is already making her presence felt both in and out of class with activities such as this workshop and her role leading her students in song in the CLL’s end-of-year concert in November 2015.
Hindi is one of the 10 foreign languages taught at the CLL. Conversation classes will be offered in the mid-year programme which runs from May 02 to July 28. Registration for Semester 1 classes 2016/2017 will begin on August 22. Find out more about Hindi at the CLL http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/cll/courses_Hindi.asp
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