Hindi Placement Test

Students interested in enrolling directly in higher levels of Hindi should complete and submit the placement test questions below. If you are unable to answer any of the questions based on your current knowledge, please indicate this in your response.

Please DO NOT use assistance from language translation platforms or other resources when completing the test, as it is intended to assess your current proficiency level. A member of the Hindi faculty will likely follow up to conduct an oral placement test.

Please email Swapna Sharma at swapna.sharma@yale.edu with any questions about the test.

1. First Name:

2. Last Name:

3. Residential College:

4. Class of

5. Yale Email Address

6. What Non-Indic languages do you know?

7. What other Indic languages do you know?

8. Do you consider yourself good at languages? *

9. What would you like to do most with your Hindi? *

10. What do you expect from this class? *

11. लगता है आपको हिंदी आती है, आपने हिंदी कहाँ सीखी ? क्या आप बहुत हिंदी फ़िल्में देखते हैं? जवाब हिंदी में लिखिये। *

12. Kyaa aap is desh mein paidaa hu’e, yaa kahiin aur? Aap kaa bachpan kahaan guzraa? Javaab likhiye. *

13. What previous exposure to the language or culture have you had? Please write briefly in English? *

14. How did you decide that you wanted to learn Hindi? *

Are you human?