Budhendra R. Joshee (Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Nepali, 2008) A Nepali citizen and native Nepali speaker, Budhendra holds a degree in Political Science, Nepali Program Coordinator for the University of Wisconsin College Year In Nepal Program since 1982.

He is a certified language tester and has an extensive record of language teaching, spanning three decades, with the American Peace Corps Volunteers, USAID/Nepal, Canadian Projects, British Volunteers, UNDP and many other organizations.

This has included several summers since 1988 as an instructor/Lecturer for the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His teaching experience is accompanied by publication of a set of language instructional materials for Nepali, including three volumes of A Practical Course In Spoken Nepali.