Skarp
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.
What you'll learn
- Students will be able to pronounce core Hindi sounds well enough to be understood in simple words and phrases.
- Students will understand the basic idea of the Devanagari script and recognize a few common characters and words.
- Students will be able to use basic greetings, thank you, sorry, and excuse me in common situations.
- Students will be able to introduce themselves with their name using a simple sentence pattern.
- Students will be able to say their name, where they are from, and what they do in simple Hindi sentences.
- Students will understand how to form basic questions about name, origin, and occupation using common question words.
- Students will be able to choose polite or informal address (aap vs tum) appropriately in simple contexts.
- Students will be able to participate in a short introduction exchange in Hindi.
- Students will be able to understand and say basic numbers, prices, and times in Hindi.
- Students will understand how to ask and answer questions about the time and day in simple phrases.
Prerequisites
- Hindi sound system and basic greetings
- Essential courtesy phrases
- Basic introductions and question words
- Familiarity with core Hindi sounds
- Numbers and time expressions
- Present habitual tense patterns
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.
Read the Textbook
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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. Basic Conversation Pattern A very common first exchange in Hindi is: Greeting Ask how the other person is Answer how you are Say your name Say thank you
Putting this together: "नमस्ते, आप कैसे हैं?" Phonetic: "na-MAS-teh, aap KAI-sey hain?" Meaning: "Hello, how are you?" "मैं ठीक हूँ, धन्यवाद।" Phonetic: "main theek hoon, dhun-yuh-VAAD." Meaning: "I am fine, thank you." "मेरा नाम अलेक्स है।" Phonetic: "MAY-raa naam Alex hai." Meaning: "My name is Alex." The Pattern "मेरा नाम है।" (My name is .) मेरा ("MAY-raa") = "my" नाम ("naam") = "name" _ = your name है ("hai") = "is"
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