Stories

The NSLI-Y program languages include Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian, Hindi, Korean, Persian (Tajiki), Russian and Turkish. Listed below are all multimedia stories written, and shared by NSLI-Y students, alumni, partners, and supporters. These stories include all NSLI-Y program languages and are ordered chronologically from the most recent post.

Alumni and current students, join the conversation by submitting your own story.

Click on a language below to see stories and media related to a specific NSLI-Y program language:

Displaying Hindi stories from .

A headshot of Christa wearing a black and gold dress. Behind her is some water, trees, and a boat.

Hindi

NSLI-Y Alumni Spotlight: Christa

Christa (she/her) is from Virginia Beach, VA and an alumna of the 2016 Hindi Summer program in Pune, India. She has her B.A. in Global Affairs with a concentration in Middle East Studies.
Taylor posing in front of a gold, ornate temple. There are other people in the background.

Hindi

NSLI-Y Alumni Spotlight: Taylor (Hindi)

NSLI-Y Alumni Profile of Taylor, who studied Hindi in the summer 2012 program in Pune, India and the Academic Year 2013-14 program in Noida, India.
Header image with title "NSLI-Y VSI 2020 Highlights: Networking Activities" with two slightly transparent images in the background: one with a map of Taiwan and Taiwanese dishes, the other of a man in from of a sign that says "American Chamber of Commerce."

Global

NSLI-Y VSI Highlights: Students Virtually Connect and Network

NSLI-Y's Virtual Summer Intensive offered students the opportunity to connect and network with locals and guests of program countries.
A banner image with the text "NSLI-Y VSI 2020 Highlights: Cultural activities." The image has the NSLI-Y logo in the top left corner and shows food and crafts from cultural activities with a blue overlay.

Global

NSLI-Y VSI Highlights: Students Virtually Participate in Cultural Activities

To ensure the safety of students, teachers, and staff amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic, the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) chose to...
A photo from a video call where Caine and his NSLI-Y cohort are all smiling and posing for a photo

Hindi

I Am Become Death: An Essay on Sanskrit Literature

Caine is from Noblesville, IN and an alumnus of the Hindi 2020 Virtual Summer Intensive program. Over the past five weeks, I have been learning Hindi with the ...
An image of the NSLI-Y Alumni Reps posing with a NSLI-Y banner

Global

Learning How to ‘Rep’: The 2020 NSLI-Y Alumni Representative Workshop

Hello! My name is Halden, and I am the NSLI-Y Alumni Representative for Chapel Hill, NC in the Southeast region. Traveling to Chengdu, China in 2018 through NSL...
Image of NSLI-Y Pune students with their teacher in front of a blackboard with Hindi vocabulary

Hindi

Life in Pune, India

Highlights from the 2019 NSLI-Y Summer Hindi program in India. Arrival in Pune! On June 21, the NSLI-Y Hindi students arrived in Pune, India and attended a welc...
An banner for the Hindi Classroom connections event. The banner is mostly blue and has the NSLI-Y logo at the top

Hindi

Hindi Classroom Connections

On April 30, NSLI-Y Interactive hosted the virtual event "Hindi Classroom Connections." Five current NSLI-Y Academic Year students in India shared recordings of...
A banner image that reads "Summer Highlights: Community Service: Environmental Sustainability"

Global

Summer 2018 Highlights: Environmental Community Service Projects

NSLI-Y students in Moldova, Jordan, India and Morocco spent the summer of 2018 doing various environmental community service projects in their communities. Vo...