Q&A for How to Learn Hindi

"Kal" or "pichle din" mean "yesterday" and "previous day."

In fact, there are many people interested in Hindi, though not as many as for languages such as Spanish or French. The reason may be that Hindi is less used in Anglophone countries and it is perceived as difficult for native English speakers.

The word for brother in Hindi is 'Bhaiya'. If you want to pay more respect, you can add 'ji' at the end of it, and it will be "Bhaiya ji".

Duolingo has recently added a course, and they have always been one of the top websites to learn a language. However, before you start, I recommend becoming familiar with the vowels and knowing how to use them and write them.

It means, "the one you are talking to". Here the person being referred to is a female.

If you want to say it formally, you can say, "Tum (t-oo-m) bohot majedar (ma-je-d-aa-r) ho'. Informally, you'd say, "Aap bohot majedar ho."

Keep an organised vocabulary notebook. Look at the words again after 24 hours, after one week and after one month. Read, read, read. Use the new words. Do word puzzles and games like crosswords, anagrams and word searches. Make word cards and take them with you. Learn words with a friend. Learn how to use a dictionary.

You can say it as "चौथा जन्मदिन मुबारक" (Chautha Janamdin Mubarak). Mubarak can be replaced with बधाई (Badhai) too.

Life. It can be used in romantic contexts to say a person is your life.

In Hindi, "Shravya" is written like this: श्राव्य. It consists of the letters "श्र" (which is a combination of श and र; श्+र्), followed by maatra of "आ" looking like "|", then half of "व" joined with "य " ( व्+य्). In other words, Shravya = श्+र्+आ+व्+य्+अ = श्राव्य.

In Hindi, you can say "तुमने" (tumne) (while asking people younger than you) or "आपने" (aapne) (while asking people older than you) for "you". You can use "क्या" (kyaa) for "did" and "तुम्हरा" (tumahra) for "your". There's no particular word for "lunch" in Hindi, so we say "दोपहर का खाना" (dopahar ka khana) (collocal) or "दोपहर का भोजन" (dopahar ka bhojan) (traditional) instead. ("दोपहर का" means "afternoon's and "खाना" and "भोजन" mean "food".) So the full sentence is: "तुमने तुम्हरा दोपहर का खाना खाया?" (Tumne tumahra dopahar ka khana khaya?).

The best way to learn any language (including Hindi) is to listen, and practice. You can listen to Hindi songs, Hindi audiobooks, watch Hindi movies with subtitles or just listen to someone speaking in Hindi. When you keep listening to something repeatedly, you'll slowly start understanding its meaning. Gradually, you can start speaking a few words and practising those very carefully. Remember, learning a language takes lots of time and effort. You'll have to be dedicated to achieve something. Do not rush, take your own time. If you practice enough, you'll succeed.

Hindi sentences are a little like English ones. So you can make sentences in Hindi in a similar way to how you'll do so in English. Just keep in mind that sometimes the order of words is different. For example, you want to say "My name is John" in Hindi. The meaning of each word in Hindi is: My- मेरा (mera) name- नाम (naam) is- है (hai) John- जॉन (John). But instead of writing "मेरा नाम है जॉन", we write "मेरा नाम जॉन है". Hindi punctuation is also similar to English but the full stop is different. Hindi punctuation: full stop (.) becomes "।", comma (,) remains ",", question mark (?) remains "?", exclamation mark (!) remains "!". Their uses are also the same.

Even if you want to learn a language for a short period of time, you'll mostly have to follow the same steps. The only difference will be that once the need for which you want to know the language has been satisfied (for example, you want to learn the language to go for a trip but will return in a few days), you won't have to keep practicing to improve your skills (after you return from the trip). This same approach applies to all languages.

I will miss you so much can be said as follows: Main tumhe bohot miss/ yaad karunga (if you are a male), or, Main tumhe bohot miss/ yaad karungi (if you are a female). If the other person is an elder or a senior and not someone of your own level or age, you will need to change the pronoun as - Main aapko bohot yaad karunga/ karungi.

प्यार the half u stands for the letter p. The second letter य with the line makes the sound of ya and the last letter र is the R in hindi. Pyar or प्यार means love.

You can watch any family oriented movie where the language is simple and dialogues are spoken slowly. Subtitles will help you learn too, no matter what the movie.

Mughal e Azam was a movie. It was a super hit Hindi movie about the Taj Mahal.

Aapka naam kya hain? For elders or seniors. Tumhara naam kya hain? For those of your level or juniors. Tera naam kya hain? For those of your level or your inner circle and those younger than you.

You can say you're at a basic Hindi-learning level if you've memorized all the vyanjan and swar (consonants and vowels). At an intermediate level, you know all the maatras (conjoined vowels) and can read multiple sentences on end with maatras in them. If you know how to write and read in hindi without the maatras, you're considered a basic Hindi learner. If you know how to write and read with maatras, you're considered at an intermediate level of learning Hindi.

Download the Duolingo app from the Google Playstore or Samsung Galaxy or Apple Store on your device. It's free. After downloading, you can click on Hindi language, and it will teach you words, sentences and phrases through their pages and lessons.

Because Kal can mean both yesterday and tomorrow, you can add tense to the word following kal to mean the day you intend to. Like, Kal tha, will suggest something was yesterday. And, kal hain, would specify something is there tomorrow.

Yes, Hindi letters are similar to Marathi letters. Many words are exactly same or are similar, but with minor tweaks for Punjabi, Gujarati, Malayalam, etc. languages. However, in totality, they all sound very different.

There are many words that are synonymous with the word sister. You can choose from Behen, behna, or didi (to address an elder sister). Behen can be pronounced with a be rhyming with meh, and hen just like English hen.

Mera means My. Naam means name. Hoon could be replaced by hain. Hoon means am. Hain fits better as it means is. मेरा नाम पदमिनी है। It means, 'My name is Padmini.'

It will help you to learn Hindi poetry. First just memorize the words and lines, then learn their meaning. Learning with songs help you to remember better. Look up audio that teaches words in a rhythm, as this will stick in your memory much better than rote learning. Also, read children's stories with images, as this will help the words to stand out and be associated with the images, another good memory trick.

Duolingo is a very useful app with good visual features. The app shows images with names. For a 5th class child, this app would be both helpful and interesting. It progresses to sentences and audio too.

Kaafi means 'a lot' or 'very'. Kaafi or kafi (khush)-happy means very happy.

You can greet elders as "Namaskar" (or) "Namaste". If you want to say more respectful, you can add "JI " in those sentences.

Keshrie केसरी means saffron ( in fact it is kesari). Keshrie केशरी means lion. It is where you are using Keshrie (in fact, it is keshri).