Hindi 313B – Spring 2009
Scripted Conversation #4
Students are to prepare the appropriate questions and possible answers in Hindi before the conversation session and turn them in for correction. Be creative with your answers! Memorize the corrected questions and answers with a goal for fluid, natural delivery. During the session, you will team up in pairs and follow the script outlined below. You are welcome to deviate from it and follow another interesting line of conversation, as long as it is all conducted in Hindi. When you have gone through all the questions, switch roles: the person who has been asking should now be answering and vice versa. Half way through, everyone switches partners. Preferably, the new partners should be of different gender than the previous one, so that everyone gets a chance to ask all the questions, using masculine verbal endings, and then switch to feminine ones or the other way around.
10% Extra Credit if turned in by Friday, May 8. (Otherwise due on Monday, May 11)
Session 4. Learning languages
Ask each other:
1. What languages do you know? (use the construction X को Y आना ).
2. When did you start learning these languages?
3. Why are you learning these languages?
4. Can you speak easily with people?
5. Can you read books fluently?
6. Can you understand films easily?
7. What is most difficult in learning languages?
8. What do you like in Hindi class?
9. What do you not like in Hindi class?
10. Do you consider Hindi as difficult as other languages?
11. If yes, what is difficult? If no, what is easy?
12. What time do you usually start and finish studying Hindi in the evening?
13. How many hours do you usually study for the tests?
14. Do you think that this class has too much work?
15. What other classes are you are taking?
16. Do you do more work for these other classes than for Hindi? How much more/less?
17. So why do you keep learning Hindi? (use new verbal form from TYH 15a).
Some Vocab:
fluently/easily adv आसानी से
test f परीक्षा