Zabaan School for Languages is a language school based in Delhi and Mumbai offering classes on Indo-Aryan languages. Classes offered include Hindi,[2] Urdu,[3] Sanskrit,[1] and Pashto.[4] Some coverage of Dari, Persian, Arabic, and Braj Bhasha is also available.[5]
| Zabaan School for Languages | |
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| Coordinates | 28.554420°N 77.240718°E |
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| Opened | August 2009[1] |
| Website | zabaan |
History
Zabaan was established in August 2009 by Ali Taqi and his former student Christoph Dusenbery, both United States citizens, who had been teaching Hindi in Seattle.[1] They saw a need for a quality language institute in New Delhi to cater to expatriates living there for work.[1] The initial business goal was to provide only Hindi language instruction starting with 25 students.[1] After some time the institute began offering classes in Urdu, Sanskrit, and Pashto.[1] The school offers classes on reading and writing Nastaliq, the Urdu alphabet.[3][6] The interest in Urdu matches a rising demand to understand Urdu use in Bollywood and to appreciate Urdu poetry.[6]
Student body
Most students at the school are expatriates who wish to learn local languages of India.[2][7][8] Taqi has said that student interest in Hindi has grown with international interest in India.[9] Many of the students are learning Hindi for international business with India.[10] Native professionals attend grammar classes of all sorts to prepare for the entrance exam for the Civil Services of India or to complement studies at the Indian Institutes of Technology.[11] By 2013 the school had provided instruction for more than 850 students.[1]
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