Here is your opportunity to practice speaking Hindi quickly in an environment without any feedback/corrections. Each person gets 45 seconds to talk about what they see in the displayed picture. 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. Anyone can join. 

Only know a few words?
“I see a safed dog”
“That ladka is tall”
“The boy umbrella ke niche hai”

If you are not a beginner, feel free to make up a story about the picture.

This will be a four week trial session, 

Host : Ellen

Start Date : Friday,
March 13, 2026,
When: 7:00am PST

Pingu Learns Hindi starts from page 1 on February 17!
Get ready for a golden opportunity to learn Hindi from scratch! Pingu Learns Hindi is designed to make learning Hindi simple, structured, and fun for complete beginners. If you’re a total beginner and have ever felt lost in other sessions, get ready to go on a fascinating journey into the Hindi language — exploring its basics and discovering its beauty in the easiest form.

• Start Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2026

• Host:  Peter

• When: Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30pm EST

A close look at one of Ashu-ji's videos - Beginner to Intermediate

• Host:  JayDee ji

• When: Friday 3pm EST

Restarts from page 1 on on March 19, 2026

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
  
  

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)

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 3:00pm UTC 

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)

⁠⁠Devanagari not required but helpful.
During the practice session you will:
•⁠  ⁠Watch the short videos of a few grammar points
•⁠  ⁠⁠Practice the grammar points
•⁠  ⁠⁠Practice 5-10 vocabulary words
HOSTS:  Trang and 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 

Note: For Intermediate High/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 ACTFL level intermediate-high and above (or CEFR mid–high B1 and above). 

If you can keep a conversation (somewhat) 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, Shan ji

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

Sunny-ji uses video clips from news and current affairs . The clip is posted prior to the Sunday session

• Host: Sunny-ji

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

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 7pm EST
  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

This will be an intensive refresher course for people who have already worked through the entire book and would like a good review, as well as for those whose grammatical foundation is already quite strong or who are willing to put in the necessary effort.

This is a fast-paced session as we will cover two chapters each week (there are 25, but the final two contain no exercises, thus 11-12 weeks). The introductory pages have to be read in advance, as they are best absorbed through independent, focused study. During class, we will work through a selection of chosen exercises to practice the key grammar points, address residual uncertainties, and complete the translation. 

• Host: Anita-ji

• When: Tuesdays at 3pm EST (8pm UTC)

This group will be using The Self & the World: Autobiographical Readings in Hindi by Rupert Snell.
The format is work-intensive but deeply rewarding. Each week, we’ll read a new excerpt (between 3 and 6 pages), ideally prepared (read once) beforehand. In class, we’ll take turns reading longer paragraphs aloud (from our own sources — no screen-sharing). We won’t be translating line by line (except when something isn’t clear), but we will discuss the stories in general and explore selected vocabulary from the excellent glossary.
Bātchīt and story discussions will be conducted in Hindi. 

• Host: Anita & Maggie

• When: Thursdays 11:00am EST 

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