🌟 Austin Marathi Shala Enrollment 🌟
नमस्कार मंडळी,
The Austin Marathi Mandal (AMM) membership year officially begins August 1st of every year !
AMM is a nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to celebrating our Marathi heritage and language. Over the past year, we successfully hosted 40+ community events, and we’re excited to bring you another vibrant year full of festivals, performances, social gatherings, and youth engagement opportunities.
🎓 Austin Marathi Shala – Our pride in language learning
As part of our mission to preserve our roots, Austin Marathi Shala offers a structured, engaging program for children aged 4 and up to learn the Marathi language in a fun, culturally immersive way.
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🏫 Shala Important Dates
• First Day of In-Person Shala (Spring Semester):
🗓 Sunday, February 1st, 2026
• Shala Timings:
🕙 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Two locations — North & South Austin
North Austin Location
Patsy Sommer Elementary
16200 Avery Ranch Blvd, Austin, TX 78717
South Austin Location
To be announced soon
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📌 How to Enroll
✅ Step 1: Become a Family Member of AMM
https://www.austinmarathimandal.org/membership.html
✅ Step 2: Enroll Your Child in Shala
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/austin-marathi-shala-2025-26-enrollment
🧒 Eligibility:
• Age 4+ → Enroll in Shishu Mitra
• Age 5+ → Enroll in Balamitra 1
📚 New Students:
Please purchase the Marathi Mitra book along with grade-level books during enrollment.
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We can’t wait to welcome you all for another year of learning, laughter, and shared Marathi pride. Let’s make 2025–26 even more memorable — together!
Warm regards,
Austin Marathi Mandal Committee 2026
Austin Marathi Shala is a project of Austin Marathi Mandal (AMM) initiated by Bruhan Maharashtra Mandal of North America (BMM).
Austin Marathi Shala is a non-profit school affiliated with Austin Marathi Mandal. This school is solely run by volunteers.
The purpose of Austin Marathi Shala is to teach Marathi culture and Marathi language to next generation.
The aim of the Marathi Shala is to empower children with the ability to read, write and communicate in Marathi.
These children also gets exposure to Marathi Culture by learning about and celebrating different traditions at school.
Students get opportunity to showcase their newly acquired language skill during various AMM programs (such as Ganapati) and also during end of end-semester celebrations.
Austin Marathi Shala is a non-profit school affiliated with Austin Marathi Mandal. This school is solely run by volunteers.
The purpose of Austin Marathi Shala is to teach Marathi culture and Marathi language to next generation.
The aim of the Marathi Shala is to empower children with the ability to read, write and communicate in Marathi.
These children also gets exposure to Marathi Culture by learning about and celebrating different traditions at school.
Students get opportunity to showcase their newly acquired language skill during various AMM programs (such as Ganapati) and also during end of end-semester celebrations.
- BMM is working with Bharati Vidyapeeth for this program
- Bharati Vidyapeeth has done extensive research keeping in mind the needs of NRI children while setting up the syllabus
- Austin Marathi Shala has 8 levels of Marathi Study (Bal Mitra 1, Bal Mitra 2, Bal Mitra 3, Kishore Mitra 1, Kishore Mitra 2, Kishor Mitra 3 and Praveen Mitra 1 and Praveen Mitra 2)
- Each student will go with his/her pace -- there is no rush to achieve certain level in certain time frame
- Over all emphasis: 60% Oral communication & 40% Reading-Writing (each level has certain expectations)
- Other things that will be covered are: shlok, kavita, drawing, craft work, etc.
- Age: 5 and up (recommended)
- Duration: One and half hours to 2 hours - once a week
Note : BMM emphasizes more on 'conversation' than 'on reading and writing (60:40), thus it is important that a student communicates well in Marathi. Only way for parents to achieve this goal is by communicating with your kids in Marathi and encourage him/her to communicate back in Marathi.
AMS Teacher Allocation Guidelines : BM1 : One Teacher for every 4-5 kids & All Other Classes: One Teacher per class.
AMS Teacher Allocation Guidelines : BM1 : One Teacher for every 4-5 kids & All Other Classes: One Teacher per class.
In-person school for Spring Semester starts : Feb 1st ,2026
At Austin Marathi Shala, we feel that students could speak Marathi better if given proper guidance. Our teachers/parents are doing this from time to time, but “kids are kids” and thus they tend to forget many important things. Another important thing is the "lack of Marathi speaking" practice. Thus, to guide our students and encourage them to speak in Marathi, we have created a "YouTube Channel" so that these videos will be available to them permanently.
Parents will also benefit from this channel to prepare their children for the oral exam. E.g., Information about our different festivals, great leaders, different regional areas, etc., and most importantly learn new songs, poems, and some religious content like Abhang, Shlok, Stotra, and Aarati. In addition to this, we are also providing learning material that will be useful for the written exam. Thus, many students could revise the new concepts through these educational videos. Finally, parents and students must keep one thing in mind, there is no substitute for 'Marathi Shala' and YouTube Channel should be used only as a supplemental knowledge tool. So students, please watch or listen to these videos at least 3-4 times. Also, pause the videos if you want, so you can remember the sequence of sentences and after enough practice, you can easily talk about a particular topic in Marathi. We wish you Good Luck for Marathi speaking as well as for your exams!
Parents will also benefit from this channel to prepare their children for the oral exam. E.g., Information about our different festivals, great leaders, different regional areas, etc., and most importantly learn new songs, poems, and some religious content like Abhang, Shlok, Stotra, and Aarati. In addition to this, we are also providing learning material that will be useful for the written exam. Thus, many students could revise the new concepts through these educational videos. Finally, parents and students must keep one thing in mind, there is no substitute for 'Marathi Shala' and YouTube Channel should be used only as a supplemental knowledge tool. So students, please watch or listen to these videos at least 3-4 times. Also, pause the videos if you want, so you can remember the sequence of sentences and after enough practice, you can easily talk about a particular topic in Marathi. We wish you Good Luck for Marathi speaking as well as for your exams!
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AMS Mobile Version |
We would like to thank all the volunteers for your support - without your support this effort will not sustain. We appreciate your time & commitment. Success of this program is highly dependent on parents' involvement & kid's desire to speak in Marathi whenever possible. If you would like to volunteer, please send us a note.
If you are interested in Shala, please fill out this Student Interest Form.
If you are interested in Shala, please fill out this Student Interest Form.
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Principal: Gaurang Dharap
AMS App & AMS Youtube Channel Concept: Prasad Panwalker
App Design and Development: Sachin Kapase & Team
Web-Page Admin: Pooja Kulkarni
AMS App & AMS Youtube Channel Concept: Prasad Panwalker
App Design and Development: Sachin Kapase & Team
Web-Page Admin: Pooja Kulkarni