For one year, I search for a school worldwide that would allow me to learn Hindi online with a very serious and technical approach. Zabaan was the only online school that I found that matched all my criteria. Firstly, the offer in terms of languages is very plural. Secondly, one can do all the classes online, without being charged for unaffordable amounts of money (some schools only target the USA dollar public). Thirdly, Zabaan seemed to be a place where languages are threaded as such, without culture, political or religious bias or indoctrination. After almost one year of classes, I can now say that they went beyond my expectations. I was assigned Vartika Pande as my teacher and I couldn’t be happier. Vartika was and is always attentive with my needs and expectations, and very comprehensive with the way that I like to learn languages. Her approach was to follow an excellent manual, adding other types of lessons to break the monotony and to add more value to the learning experience when needed. This was exactly what I was searching for, structure but with modern tools. The level of professionalism is equally balance with her soft skills, this is expressed by the she explains some more complex aspects of Hindi while understanding that some topics might be completely new for an European audience. Besides the learning experience, I must admit that both Vartika’s and Keziah’s understanding and flexibility in terms of schedule, changing time zones are beyond reproach. When needed I’ve been allocated other teachers, and schedule adaptations have never been an issue. On a complementary note, both the Zabaan website and the support used for the lessons show that the school, the teachers and the staff are committed to do a serious job. To conclude, I think I will stay with Zabaan for a while and I feel like starting other languages once Hindi and Urdu are in an advance stage. Thank you so much

My hindi lessons with Anita have been fantastic! I could not ask for a better Hindi teacher. Zabaan is an excellent choice for abroad-living Desis looking to learn Hindi.

Amazing facilities, amazing team of teachers, well designed courses and the meals are also quite good. Worth the price.

Here are some reasons why I decided to learn Hindi. First of all, I grew up in a Buddhist family; the customs and systems of thought in Buddhism has had deep influence on me. At first I thought learning Sanskrit would give me a key directly to the Sutras; however I soon realized that learning Sanskrit with absolutely no prior knowledge would be an intellectual feat. I found out that both Sanskrit and Hindi use the Devanagari script as its alphabet and many words in Hindi have their origin from Sanskrit, so I decided it would be a good idea to start off with Hindi. Secondly, I chose to learn Hindi because I wanted to give myself a challenge. After learning Italian and a little bit of French I realized that the European languages would have much in common with one another. To learn a language with a totally different alphabet and writing system would be much more difficult than learning another European language. This huge linguistic gap between Hindi and the languages which I already would give me a broader horizon of the world. Moreover, as I have a keen interest in linguistics, learning Hindi would give me more references to examine what I have learned in my linguistics courses. At this moment I am in the middle of my courses and after looking back I think it really required a lot of effort to reach this stage. At the beginning the main difficulty was matching each Devanagari letter with its pronunciation. After having managed that, the next thing was to endow these sounds and letter combinations with meaning. At the point where I am right now, the main task is to consolidate different grammar rules and keep learning new words. I want to thank the Zabaan team for giving me positive pressure and enlightening guidance throughout the learning process. This is my third week in New Delhi and I can already use simple colloquial language on the streets to express myself and avoid hassle.