Curriculum: Self-Guided Study

The Flagship experience is shaped by an intense curriculum. Students essentially learn two scripts and multiple lexical traditions (Sanskritic, Perso-Arabic, etc.). As such, prospective students may find it helpful to engage in some self-guided study prior to ― or even during ― their Flagship experience. Listed below are a few sources that may help with self-guided study:

Textbooks

Teach Yourself Hindi | Rupert Snell | 2003

Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi Script | Rupert Snell | 2003

Let's Study Urdu | Ali S. Asani & Syed Akbar Hyder | 2007

Let's Study Urdu: An Introduction to the Script | Ali S. Asani & Syed Akbar Hyder | 2007

Urdu: An Essential Grammar | Ruth Laila Schmidt | 1999

Introduction to Hindi Grammar | Usha R. Jain | 1995

Dictionaries

The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary | RS McGregor | 1994

A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English | John T Platts | 2004

The Oxford English-Urdu Dictionary | Shanul Haq Haqqee | 2003

Rajpal English-Hindi Dictionary | Hardev Bahri | 2000

Online: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

Online: Shabdkosh.com

Online: CRULP Online Urdu Dictionary

Miscellaneous Online Resources

A Door into Hindi

New Directions, New People

Wordchamp

BBC Hindi and BBC Urdu

Siasat Daily online