Close
Language Resources
Learning Hindi in London
- SOAS: www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/languages/hindi/
- KCL: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/mlc/evening/timetable/language/Hindi
- Mary Ward Centre (These courses seem to be offered at a greater range of levels than SOAS)
- City Lit: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/Languages/Hindi
- South Thames College: www.south-thames.ac.uk/CO456-12f-12/Hindi
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan: www.bhavan.net/courses/regular-courses/languages (Teaches to GCSE and A-Level, but quality unknown).
Learning Hindi in India:
- Landour Language School (Mussorie) http://landourlanguageschool.com/ [Diplo-types, missionaries, atheists, researchers...]
- Jaipur Hindi School: http://jaipurhindi.com/index.html [American summer school centre]
Hindi Resources Online:
- A Door into Hindi: http://taj.chass.ncsu.edu/
- Washington.edu: http://courses.washington.edu/hindi31x/resources.html
- NYU Virtual Hindi: www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/hindi/index.html
- BBC Hindi service (texts, video, audio): www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/
Plus many broadcasters, newspapers and magazines are online in Hindi too:
- Aaj Tak: http://aajtak.intoday.in/
- Tehelka Hindi: www.tehelkahindi.com/
- Jansatta: www.jansatta.com/
- Webdunia: www.webdunia.com/
- For vocab learning? www.memrise.com/welcome/
Dictionaries
Hindi Resources in London
- Foyles: www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Shop/Search.aspx?fFacetId=1014&searchBy=1&term=hindi&quick=true
- Star Book: www.starbooksuk.com/index.php?
Mary Ward Centre
Translation, Dictionaries and Resources
- Tamilcube: http://www.tamilcube.com/res/tamilpad.html
- http://www.dictionary.tamilcube.com/
- University of Chicago Digital Dictionaries of South Asia University of Madras Tamil Lexicon Search Engine: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries//tamil-lex/
Online Language Learning
- Government of Tamil Nadu Department of School Education School Textbooks in Tamil Available in .pdf Format: http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/
- University of Pennsylvania Language Learning Center’s Web Assisted Learning and Teaching of Tamil (WALTT): http://plc.sas.upenn.edu/tamil
- Tamil Virtual Academy (TVA): http://www.tamilvu.org/
Tamil Preservation and Advocacy Organizations
- Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai: http://www.cict.in/
- World Classical Tamil Conference: http://ulakathamizhchemmozhi.org/
- Association of Tamil Computing: http://www.kanithamizh.in/
- International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (IFITT)
India-Based Tamil Language Learning Institutions
- Tamil University, Thanjavur: http://www.tamiluniversity.ac.in/
- American Institute of Indian Studies: http://aiislanguageprograms.org/
- Institute for Asian Studies, Chennai (IAS): http://xlweb.com/heritage/asian/
US-Based Tamil Language Learning Institutions
- South Asia Summer Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: http://sasli.wisc.edu/languages/tamil.html
- American Institute of Indian Studies: http://aiislanguageprograms.org/
- University of Pennsylvania: http://plc.sas.upenn.edu/tamil
- University of California, Berkeley: http://southasia.berkeley.edu/tamil-classes
- Syracuse University: http://lang.syr.edu/
- Columbia University South Asia Institute: http://sai.columbia.edu/courses
Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Centre London
- Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Centre
Address 10 Maple Street London, W1T 5HA
Email: londra@yunusemrevakfi.com.tr
Tel: 020 7387 3036
While the list above is based on information from students, UCL does not take any responsibility for recommending these resources.