Learn Hindi for your trip
Delhi, Mumbai and northern India: chai, auto-rickshaws and bargaining, written in English letters.
- 8 modules
- 3 missions
- 254 phrases to search, hear and save
Try it free for 14 days.
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A short travel guide with First Steps and a Getting about track, and three missions: a chai and a snack at a stall, taking an auto-rickshaw or taxi, and bargaining politely at a market stall.
Real situations, one at a time.
3 missions, each a situation you will meet on a trip. You practise the key language, then the conversation.
Missions
Chai and a snack at a stall
Order chai and a snack at a street stall the way you like them, find out what you are eating and pay.
Take an auto-rickshaw or taxi
Take an auto-rickshaw or taxi across the city, agree the fare, steer the driver and get out where you mean to.
Bargain politely at a market stall
Buy a bag, scarf or gift at a bazaar stall at a fair price, politely, or walk away on good terms.
The Hindi you learn, in order.
It starts with First Steps, the survival language for your first hour, then a travel track for the places you will go.
- 1First StepsNamaste, one chai please, and where is the toilet?
- 2Getting aboutAutos, bazaars and a friendly word.
- 8
- modules, each in short lessons
- 117
- words and expressions
- 14
- sentence patterns
- 254
- phrases in the phrasebook
Hindi you can use on day one.
These are from the first lessons. In the app each has audio, a note on when to use it, and a way to save it.
Namaste, ji.
Hello. (polite)
Dhanyavaad, ji.
Thank you.
Maaf kijiye, ji.
Excuse me. / Sorry.
Yeh kitne ka hai?
How much is this?
Toilet kahaan hai?
Where is the toilet?
Mujhe do chai chahiye.
I'd like two chai.
Three things about Hindi for a traveller.
No new alphabet to start
Phrases are written in English letters, so you can read them and say them from the first lesson.
A small guide
Eight modules and a short phrasebook are enough for a first trip. It is not a full course.
India is large
There are notes for Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur and Agra. Hindi is the everyday language in Delhi and the north; in Mumbai it is spoken beside Marathi and English.
Places the course has notes on.
Each note is a habit of that place, so you know what to expect where you are going.
Delhi
Delhi, New Delhi, Connaught Place, Old Delhi, the airport. Hindi is the everyday language
Mumbai & Maharashtra
Mumbai: Hindi (Bambaiya Hindi) is spoken everywhere beside Marathi and English
Rajasthan
Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur. Hindi with Rajasthani flavour
Uttar Pradesh
Agra (the Taj Mahal), Varanasi, Lucknow. Hindi heartland
The same app plans the trip you are learning Hindi for.
Takes your phrases offline
Download the travel guide on Wi-Fi. The phrasebook, survival and travel packs, local notes and audio then work with no signal.
Plans the trip too
Put places on days, save the TikToks and reels that gave you ideas, see the stops on a map and share the plan.
Keeps your travel map
Colour in the countries you have been to and the ones you want to go to.
About learning Hindi.
Will Hindi help across India?
It helps most in Delhi and northern India. Many other states have their own languages, and English is widely used in tourism.
Do I have to learn Devanagari?
No. The guide writes everything in English letters.
Can I use it offline?
Download the guide on Wi-Fi and the phrasebook, packs, notes and audio work with no signal.
Going somewhere else?
Say your first Hindi phrase in a few minutes.
Create a free account, pick Hindi, and start with the phrases for your first hour.
Try it free for 14 days.