2011 was the year of inception. This site was created on April 14th, 2011. Its original purpose was to be a grammar reference, but the site has expanded far beyond this original intent.
2012 was the year of transformation. The site received a custom design, its implementation was completely changed, and many new features were added.
2013 will be, I hope, the year of expansion. I plan to add new features and a lot more content.
Tentatively, here are my ideas:
- “Lessons” – casual, humorous, inductive Hindi tutorials
- Regular Vocabulary updates (5 daily)
- More content: more tutorials, dialogs, grammar articles, exercises, etc.
- Q & A format improvements
- Notes – frequent, brief, miscellaneous articles about Hindi
- Grammar article revisions
- More rigorous proofreading
- Script tutor demonstrating how to write Devanagari, possibly with animations
- Audio – recordings of the pronunciation of Devanagari letters, words, audio lessons, audio exercises, etc.
- Learning tips – advice about how to learn Hindi effectively
- Reviews – reviews of websites, books, etc.
- An overview page that summarizes all of the content on the site
- More information on the About page
- More links
- Indexes – lists of information such as familial relationships, numbers, months, days, time, etc.
- Common Hindi phrases
- More information about the Hindi language itself
- Transcripts of various audio recordings that I have transcribed
- Transliteration – information about transliterated Hindi words
- A Hindi blog – a blog written in Hindi
- English blog posts
- Media reviews of TV shows, etc.
- Feedback via Facebook, Twitter, and Disqus – I want to encourage interaction from the site’s users.
This is an ambitious list, and I have other priorities, so I can’t promise that I will accomplish everything that I want to accomplish next year, but I certainly intend to try. Regardless, you can look forward to a lot of great content on this site in 2013!
6 replies on “Plans for 2013”
Oh my goodness!! too excited, just cant wait for audio lessons.
Thanks, Madhumitha! It will take some time for me to procure equipment, create the lessons, and recruit speakers, but I hope to release audio content soon.
Once again, thanks a ton for starting this website. It’s always been very helpful to me in learning Hindi. If there’s anything I can do to help, I’d love to support your project. 🙂
Thanks, Dorothea! I’m so glad that it has been helpful to you. I really appreciate your participation. Maintaining this site is a lot of work, so it’s gratifying to read your compliments. Thousands of people view this site each month, but I receive very little feedback, so I am very thankful for the comments, questions, and corrections that you have submitted.
I appreciate your enthusiasm & effort to make available very good learning & reference material for Hindi. I think that the Indian Standard IS-16500 : 2012 ‘Devnagari Script and Hindi Spellings’ document will help you in proofreading Hindi content. It’s available from standardsbis.in
Thank you for your comment!