India: Language Study Resources

Interactive, multimedia Elementary Hindi learning website, designed by Afroj Taj, including 24 video lessons. Some lessons still under development.

28 thematic modules of the Urdu language and culture, based on real life situations. Filmed in New and Old Delhi, these modules record the lively traditions of Urdu Zabaan and exhibit the rich literary, cultural and culinary traditions, as well as the traditional medicines and sports of the Urdu speech communities in Delhi.

Interactive, multimedia elementary Urdu learning website, by Afroz Taj. Some lessons still under development.

42 thematic modules, which are based on real life situations with varied linguistic, social and cultural contents. The clips are short and offer samples of Hindi speech in the presentational and interpersonal modes of communication. They are unscripted, unrehearsed and non-sequential.

The Urdu Thesaurus (‘beta’ or ‘testing’ version) launched for the web and smartphones on 16 July 2016 was developed over five years. Through the Urdu Thesaurus website and app, over forty thousand unique words and phrases, and over twenty thousand sets of synonyms can be searched. As a language reference resource, it is a constantly evolving tool. Currently featuring only synonyms, its future versions will have integrated Urdu-to-Urdu lexicons, bilingual dictionaries, and dictionaries of antonyms, idioms and proverbs.

Site by Vasu Ranganathan, University of Pennsylvania. Textual, audio, video and interactive exercise materials for beginning learners of Tamil.

(Erstwhile Tamil Virtual University) Audiovisual Tamil lessons geared toward classes kindergarten through high school of the Indian school curriculum.