For people that have their roots in India, whether from Canada, Guyana, Surinam, Fiji, Trinidad, Africa etc, learning Hindi is not only about being familiarised with a language it is about identifying with a culture. It is about social practices and building relationships within a community.                     

 In Guyana, Vaishali Panwar gained experience teaching non Hindi speaking people of Indian origin the language. She has thereby initiated and implemented the adult conversational program for ages 13 and above. This class explains basic formulas of the language that will help students to acquire conversational skills.

She has also designed an elementary Hindi program for children that will start with recognition of vowels and consonants, word formation and sentence building. The fundamental Hindi lesson plans and structured visual activities are given to enhance vocabulary, reading, writing and speaking skills.

The Hindi program generally covers the following topics:

1. Vowels, consonants, vowel diacritics, personal pronouns, word order, auxiliary verbs, use of ( this, that, what, where)
2. Basic reading and writing system
3. Making plurals of noun, negation, simple sentences
4. Simple classroom instructions and general greetings
5. Visual Aid Hindi activities
6. Hindi games for word formation and sentence building
7. Adjectives and possessive pronouns
8. Verb infinitive and verb root
9. Post positions
10. To want to V, To be able to V where V is verb
11. Compound post positions
12. Imperatives and simple past sentences
13. Past tense, Past continuous, use of sine and for
14. Transitive and intransitive verb
15. Optative/ subjunctive
16. Future tense
17. Use of suffix , conditional sentences
18. Parts of Day, telling time
19. Emphatics/ Conjunctions
20. Comparatives/ Superlatives
21. Dialogue sessions