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.

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.

"Jo" means "who," "jis" means "which," "jiska" means "whose," and "jisse" means "whom."

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.

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

For numbers one to twenty, you can say ek (1), do (2), teen (3), chaar (4), paanch (5), chhe (6), saat (7), aath (8), nau (9), das (10), gyarah (11), barah (12), terah (13), chaudah (14), pandrah (15), solah (16), satrah (17), atharah (18), unnees (19), and bees (20). Numbers from one to one hundred are unique and need to be memorized, but they often sound similar to the numbers they contain.

"Good morning" in Hindi is translated as सुबह शुभ हो, or subah shubh ho in Latin script.

"Aapko angrezi aati hai," or "आपको अंग्रेजी आती है" in Hindi script, means "Do you know English?"

You can write "day" in two ways: using the Hindi script as दिन, and the Latin script as 'din'.

In Hindi, work is translated as काम, or 'kaam' in the Latin script. You can also say काम करने के लिए, which means 'to work' and is 'kaam karne ke liye' in the Latin script.

मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूँ (main tumse pyar karta hoon in Latin script).

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.'

Listen to songs, and watch TV shows and movies where Hindi is being spoken by native speakers. Repeat what they say. It works best if you can slow down the dialogue, or pause it frequently to give yourself the chance to repeat what's being said.

You can learn Hindi on platforms such as Duolingo and Hindipod 101 on Innovative Languages.

Is this due to automatic translation? If it is in person, maybe you could ask if they could reply in Hindi. Also, people may not know what level you are on, so they have to assume that you could be a beginner.

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).

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

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