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यह कितने का है — the sentence you will use more than any other in India. Note the structure: this how-much of is. Word for word it makes no sense in English, which is the point at which you stop translating.
Say it fifty times. It should be a single reflex, not four words assembled.
| English | Hindi | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| How much is this? | यह कितने का है? | yeh kitne ka hai |
| That's too expensive | यह बहुत महँगा है | yeh bahut mehanga hai |
| Please reduce the price a little | थोड़ा कम कीजिए | thoda kam keejiye |
Assembling it word by word in the moment. It has to be automatic or it arrives too late.
This is day 1 of 8 in the grammar that carries weight phase (days 15–22), whose job is gender, postpositions and the present tense working together. It assumes you have done day 14. It is also the first day of a new phase, so expect the ground to shift: the previous phase's habits stay, but the thing being practised changes. Day 16 continues from here.
About 21 to 31 minutes if you do the task properly rather than reading past it. The speaking part is not optional decoration — saying it aloud badly is worth more than reading it correctly, because your mouth learns nothing from your eyes. 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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