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सीधे, बाएँ, दाएँ. Enough to direct a taxi, which is a real and frequent need, and enough to understand a direction given to you, which is much harder because it comes at speed.
Have someone give you directions in Hindi and follow them, on a map if not in a street.
| English | Hindi | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| Where is …? | … कहाँ है? | … kahaan hai |
| Go straight | सीधे जाइए | seedhe jaaiye |
| Turn left | बाएँ मुड़िए | baayen mudiye |
| Turn right | दाएँ मुड़िए | daayen mudiye |
| Stop here | यहीं रोकिए | yaheen rokiye |
Learning to give directions and not to receive them. You will almost always be the one asking.
This is day 5 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 18. It sits in the middle of the phase, which is where most of the actual learning happens and where most people quietly stop. Day 20 continues from here.
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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