Zabaan School for Languages

Zabaan is a world-class language school providing highly professional training for a range of aptitudes and needs. For many years I struggled to find a school with a systematic approach to pedagogy and proven results for learning Hindi. Through my studies with Zabaan I have made steady progress in comprehension, speaking, reading and writing. Working with its instructors have given me the tools and confidence to build my skills systematically over time. I am grateful to have found them and can highly recommend Zabaan to anyone!

I love the teachers at Zabaan! I was a student through NSLI-Y, which is a program aimed at developing critical language-fluency for US-nationals. Zabaan was absolutely instrumental in developing my Hindi understanding and fluency, and I want to give a special shoutout to Tamanna and Shanti Didi-they brought in so much energy into our classes every day and challenged us, while still supporting us and being patient as we learned. I could not recommend Zabaan more!

My one-on-one Bangla classes with Dipanwita Saha have been amazing. She has been teaching me for the last four months and uses a combination of the standard textbook and the more traditional Sahaj Paat written by Tagore; and a mix of reading, writing, and speaking exercises. The combination works really well especially the Sahaj Paat, which is a lot of fun and gives you a feel not just for the language but the cultural world of Bangla. I highly recommend Dipanwita as a Bangla teacher for new learners as well as for those who have some elementary knowledge.

I have been studying Urdu with Raza since five years now. Initially I joined Ali´s group course for the Urdu script and then quickly some students were shifted to Raza to learn more Urdu. The classes in the institute with Chai and vivid discussions in our group were legendary and friendship building. Since I am back in Germany I take weekly online class with Raza. It is a wonderful learning experience and I am so thankful for the wonderful material that Raza prepares. Be it day to day spoken Urdu or Urdu prose or poetry, we cover a vast range of topics. At the moment we are going through a poetry course Raza has assembled for beginners and his vocabulary lists are amazingly well prepared in Devnageri English and Urdu. Who ever is interested in Urdu literature, be it prose or poetry - Raza is so patient, kind and knowledgeable. Thank you so much!

As someone who has learned Hindi now for the third time after starting and stopping, this experience with Zabaan has by far exceeded my other language learning experiences. Zabaan has been incredibly accommodating with adjusting to my varying learning styles and preferences, enabling me to try small group classes in person, as well as one-on-one classes virtually, all at times that work well for my schedule. They are incredibly flexible and are always looking to provide students with the best possible learning experience. My teachers Raza, Anshu, and Riya have all worked with me to vastly expand my vocabulary and understanding of grammar, and it’s amazing to see how much my reading comprehension and writing skills have increased as well. Each of them are so talented in making class enjoyable and productive. I’m always able to connect class topics to subjects that I’m personally interested in, and always have so much fun conversing with them. Big cheers to Zabaan for helping me navigate life in India with this beautiful language!

Excellent head teacher at Zabaan. Ali's super dedicated to his students learning process. I highly recommend everyone learn Urdu and Hindi here by any means.

I absolutely love learning Hindi with Zabaan and my fabulous tutor, Riya. I have spent an hour online with her each week for over a year now and in this time I have learned the Devanagari script, I am able to read quite well, I have moved through the grammar and vocab of the text books and we are now having little conversations each week. I love the one on one lessons as I get to ask heaps of questions and we move at a pace personalised to my progress. I highly recommend learning a language with Zabaan. I look forward to class every week!

I have enjoyed taking the in-person intermediate Hindi classes in the Delhi office, as well as now taking online classes which are very professional and enjoyable, and I receive homework that gets marked for each class. Highly recommend.

I enrolled in 120 hours of private, online Hindi lessons through Zabaan as a total beginner, in order to gain some language facility during my 9 months of research in India. My experience with the school was terrific. I had two teachers, Vartika and Manisha, who had different and complimentary teaching styles and coordinated with one another to make sure the class was moving along at a pace that was good for me. Both of them seemed to genuinely enjoy teaching, which makes any class far more fun. It’s hard to imagine a more efficient course to cover all the fundamental Hindi grammar and develop skills for reading, writing, and speaking. I would highly recommend Zabaan to anyone serious about learning a language.

Teachers at Zabaan - our first teacher Riya Tyagi and Second teacher Ali Taqi are extra ordinary teachers. They know how to teach. For me before joining Zabaan Urdu script was the toughest. But the dedicated Zabaan teachers made it easy. Teaching, testing of our knowledge and giving home work everything was so fantastic. Never thought that one can learn the script within 5 classes and in 7.5 hours. What else? The course was free. Wish that with your guidance and my practice, very soon I would be able to read and write fluent Urdu. Thanks a lot. Dhanyavad. Shukriya.

Had an awesome experience learning gurmukhi script from Anshu ma'am at Zabaan. The beginner course has helped me immensely in reading and writing the script. Thanks a lot Zabaan for making such courses available to anyone interested in learning these North Indian languages. Highly recommended for anyone wishing to learn gurmukhi script.

Zabaan is a brilliant institution for learning new languages, Riya Tyagi was my mentor for urdu and she made the job so easy and fun loving for me, she teaches in such a familiar way that not i just learnt the language but also developed love for the language. Thankyou so much Riya tyagi ji & zabaan for this experience.

I highly recommend Zabaan School. There are some reason.
First, all teachers and staff are charming and very kind.
Second, the various kinds of curry which are surved for lunch are delicious. If you're not good at spicy food, that doesn't matter. This is because they also provide mild one. When you take classes, Zabaan School served Chai. Chai is excellent. I became addicted, once I had it!
I hope you learn Indian languages in a good environment where you can meet people who come from all over the world.

I highly recommend the Hindi language courses at Zabaan School. Teachers' explanations are to the point. They teach us various things not only about Hindi but also Indian culture. All of the staff is very kind and friendly. Also, the food there is very delicious. I would have some tea (When it comes to this tea, the ginger really did the trick. That is the most delicious tea I've ever had.) while studying with my teachers and friends. Studying Hindi at Zabaan School was an amazing experience to me！If you want to learn Hindi in India, you should definitely go to Zabaan School.

I have been working on my written business English with Zabaan for more than a year now and believe that I have improved my skills a lot. The credit goes to Zabaan and the tailor made classes of my teacher Mr. Saraf. Thanks a lot!

I have been a student at Zabaan for nearly 8 months. Going through a number of their programs has been a fantastic experience and has greatly improved my Hindi. I also must commend their competency demonstrated throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They have rather effortlessly moved their teaching online in a way which maintains the quality of their education. I have mostly worked with Rachayta while at Zabaan. She has a brilliant ability to recognize common errors I make and identify the appropriate grammatical rules to help me learn from those mistakes. Trained as a linguist, I am also always appreciative of her ability to deconstruct any word and explicate its etymology. This skill makes learning both interesting and clarifying, allowing myself to draw useful connections. Rachayta's sharp ears for pronunciation also enable me to not only be able to understand Hindi, but to be understood when speaking! Zabaan as a whole is a fantastic institution. I am eager to rejoin them in person when possible and am confident that their continued efforts have greatly improved my Hindi. Thanks Zabaan and team, and I highly recommend for all those interested in learning languages!

Zabaan is the best. I’ve taken four different courses there in Farsi and Hindi, and each have been amazing. There are remarkably few good tools to learn colloquial Hindi, and that makes the work of my current Hindi teacher Juhi all the more amazing. Classes with her are great fun and we end up chatting about the most bizarre range of topics (between being told off for conjugating a verb wrong). I’ve now been taking classes with her for about a year and wow has my Hindi improved! Here’s to many more classes!

I also have to commend the way that Zabaan dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. My classes swiftly moved online with barely a hit to the teaching itself. Within days, Juhi had sent me PDF’s of Manto and Hindi Harry Potter.

I attended 4 week Gurmukhi script course to learn how to read, write Gurmukhi and speak Punjabi language. My teacher was Anshu Saluja and she has a great command over the language and her teaching methodology was simple which made it easy for me to pick up the language and it's script.
If we could have got one more class then it would have been fine so that the teacher could take a script reading test for us. But anyways, all my queries got solved and Yes, I am practicing it daily.
Zabaan is highly recommend.

I highly recommend the Hindi language courses at Zabaan! Yesterday I finished the Conversational Hindi course that was really useful and interesting! I was looking for a course that was focused on conversation because I had already studied Hindi at university, and this course was perfect for me! In addition to conversation, of course we also studied basic and important grammatical concepts. Vartika has always been very clear, professional, friendly, always ready to answer to our questions, ready to solve our doubts and able to create fun and useful educational activities at the same time. Bahot shukriya Vartika and Zabaan School! I hope I can join you again for another interesting course! Greetings from Italy!

I have lived in India for 10 years of my life and struggled to learn Hindi that entire time. Thanks to Zabaan's online classes, I finally have an opportunity to learn Hindi properly. I have tried every other method: Teach Yourself Hindi, a personal tutor, learning from friends, Duolingo, Drops, and Rosetta Stone. None of these has even come close to my experience with Zabaan. The Zabaan teachers really know what they are doing.

Hindi instruction for foreign language speakers is difficult. It requires teaching (and reteaching) the Devanagari alphabet, pronunciation, minimal pairs, and other basics that my past teachers considered too boring to engage with. It requires an incredible amount of patience, as foreign language students like myself will struggle with pronunciation, listening, and even basic grammar comprehension for many months. It also requires that the teacher is both (a) able to use multiple teaching methods attuned to the different learning styles of multiple students and (b) reach into a deep knowledge of Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit to answer peculiar questions about the language that other Indic-language speakers are unlikely to ask.

Teachers at Zabaan have proven capable in all these skills. They make their classes interesting and engaging. The online classes mean I can continue my Hindi education with them regardless of which city or country I am currently in. This is the system of Hindi instruction I have been in search of for over a decade and I will happily recommend Zabaan to anyone I meet who wants to learn Hindi.

I took an intensive beginner Hindi course with Zabaan for a month in Delhi in 2019. The teachers were incredibly knowledgeable and dedicated. The course was fast paced but comprehensive. Since returning to Australia I have begun online lessons with Rachayta. She is a fantastic teacher who is able to explain the origin and cultural context of words. She has made Hindi grammar easier to understand with plenty of examples; and she caters the lessons to my interests. I highly recommend learning Hindi at Zabaan.