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यह (this), वह (that), यहाँ (here), वहाँ (there). Four words that let you point at the world and ask about it, which is most of what a beginner conversation is.
Walk around and name five things with यह … है.
| English | Hindi | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| this | यह | yeh |
| that | वह | voh |
| here | यहाँ | yahaan |
| there | वहाँ | vahaan |
| what | क्या | kya |
Pronouncing वह as 'wah'. It is closer to 'voh' in speech — the spelling and the pronunciation genuinely differ here.
This is day 7 of 7 in the first sentences phase (days 8–14), whose job is saying true things about yourself without assembling them word by word. It assumes you have done day 13. It closes this phase. If any of it feels shaky, that is worth a second pass before moving on — the next phase builds directly on it. Day 15 begins the grammar that carries weight phase.
About 25 to 35 minutes if you do the task properly rather than reading past it. There are 5 new words today. If that is too many, take the first three and leave the rest; 5 half-known words are worth less than three you can produce. Missing a day is not a reason to stop — the sequence matters, the calendar does not.
Devanagari is easy to get slightly wrong when it is typed by hand — a missing matra, the wrong nukta. If something here looks off to you, trust a native speaker over this page and please tell us so it gets fixed — it takes a moment and a real person reads it. Romanised spellings are a guide to the sound, not a standard: there is no single official way to write Hindi in Latin letters.
Today's task is a speaking task. Doing it alone is better than not doing it, and doing it with someone who corrects you is worth about five times as much.
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