Punjabi for Beginners

Description

Punjabi for Beginners will give you skills for basic conversation needed for travel or communicating with co-workers, neighbours, and friends. Over six evenings you will learn basic grammar, vocabulary, greetings, numbers, and simple conversation needed for shopping, ordering food, hiring a taxi, small talk about the weather, sports, or pets.You will learn the relevance of food, dance, and festivals in Punjabi culture as well as Punjabi history.

Offering 1F24: Wednesdays, Sept 25 to Nov 6 2024, 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Credo Christian High School 21846 52 Ave Langley

Instructor: Rajnish Dhawan
Rajnish has been teaching and writing in Punjabi for more than three decades. He grew up in Indian Punjab and moved to Canada in 2009. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of English at the UFV. He has written Punjabi T.V. series, documentaries and a Punjabi novel. He has been teaching Punjabi in Canada since 2009. “My approach is very basic,” he says and adds,”language is acquired through the atmosphere, so in my classroom, I try to create a world where Punjabi is natural, and not a foreign tongue. The interactive sessions make learning easy and enjoyable.”