Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, open materials that may be used and modified by students, self-learners, teachers, and content creators through the use of a Creative Commons license. The materials found on this page contain a CC BY-SA license, also called an Attribution-ShareAlike license. This license requires future users to acknowledge the original creators and to license any future adaptations of the material under the same license.
We hope the following classroom materials, curricular plans, lesson plans, and other resources will facilitate teaching and learning Hindi. In collaboration with the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), the Department of Asian Studies and South Asia Institute support the ongoing creation of OER for Hindi. Many of the resources found on this site originated in the Hindi Urdu Flagship program at UT-Austin.
The Hindi Script
An in-depth introduction to the Hindi writing system.
Hindi Pronunciation
Try your hand at basic Hindi pronunciation.
Hindi Script Recognition (Quizlets)
Practice your script recognition with multiple levels of Quizlets.
Hindi Grammar
Helpful tidbits about various aspects of Hindi grammar.
Glossaries Alive
An acclaimed audio-visual series introducing beginners to Hindi words and expressions.
Spoken Thesaurus
A lively podcast that discusses groups of words of related meaning and how to use them in everyday speech.
Hamari Boli
A video collection with native speakers modeling common Hindi conversation strategies.
Memory Games
Use this collection of custom-built memory games to improve your vocabulary retention and recall speed.
Dialogues
Practice your listening, speaking, and reading skills with this set of conversations from a variety of settings.
Nursery Rhymes
Practice your listening, speaking, and reading skills with this set of conversations from a variety of settings.
Greetings and Conversation Starters
Practice your listening, speaking, and reading skills with this set of conversations from a variety of settings.
Typing in Hindi
A quick visual guide to typing Hindi in iOS and mac OS.
Textbooks
Full access to first year Hindi textbooks and workbooks by Dr. Herman van Olphen.
External Resources
A categorized and annotated set of links to external resources for further study of Hindi.
Hindi Worksheets
A large collection of materials which can supplement independent study or teaching of Hindi.
Hindi-Urdu Reader
A free version of “Hindi and Urdu Since 1800: A Common Reader” by Christopher Shackle and Rupert Snell.
The Hindi-Urdu Verb: A Guided Tour
A guide to the main verb tenses and constructions of Hindi.
Interviews
A wide range of Hindi interviews with famous singers, writers, and personalities.
