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Conversational Hindi for Everyday Situations
Learn to understand and use practical Hindi for daily life, from greetings and small talk to shopping, traveling, and visiting friends. This course focuses on high‑frequency words, natural phrases, and realistic dialogues so you can start speaking with confidence in common situations.
Course Content
8 modules · 2h total
Module 1: Hindi Sounds, Script Basics, and Survival Phrases
Get oriented to spoken Hindi: key sounds, how they are written, and a first set of survival phrases you can use immediately in everyday interactions.
Module 2: Introducing Yourself and Getting to Know Others
Learn how to talk about your name, origin, languages, and basic personal details, and ask the same questions politely in Hindi.
Module 3: Numbers, Time, and Everyday Small Talk
Build confidence with numbers, time expressions, and small talk topics like weather and feelings that appear in many daily conversations.
Module 4: Talking About Family, Home, and Daily Routine
Learn to describe your family members, where you live, and what you do in a typical day, using very common verbs and sentence patterns.
Module 5: Shopping, Money, and Eating Out
Practice the language you need in markets, shops, and restaurants, including asking prices, bargaining politely, and ordering food and drinks.
Module 6: Getting Around: Directions, Transport, and Time Plans
Learn to navigate cities and towns in Hindi: asking for directions, understanding landmarks, buying tickets, and confirming times and locations.
Module 7: Social Visits, Invitations, and Phone/Online Chats
Develop language for visiting friends, making and responding to invitations, and handling simple conversations on the phone or in messaging apps.
Module 8: Everyday Problems, Help, and Polite Complaints
Prepare to deal with minor problems in everyday life, from not understanding something to small issues with services, and learn how to ask for help politely.
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In this step you will learn essential Hindi survival phrases: hello, how are you, my name is…, thank you, sorry, and excuse me. You will also see how they are written in the Devanagari script and how to pronounce them using English sounds.
In this step, you will see how Hindi builds a simple conversation pattern using the phrases above, and you will also notice some key pronunciation features.
### 1. Basic Conversation Pattern A very common first exchange in Hindi is: