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मेरा नाम … है. Notice where है sits: at the end. Hindi's verb goes last in every sentence you will ever build, and the sooner that becomes a reflex the sooner you stop translating in your head.
Say your own name sentence twenty times until it comes out without assembling it. Then the question form.
| English | Hindi | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| My name is … | मेरा नाम … है | mera naam … hai |
| What is your name? | आपका नाम क्या है? | aapka naam kya hai |
| Nice to meet you | आपसे मिलकर अच्छा लगा | aapse milkar achchha laga |
Putting है in the middle where English puts 'is'. मेरा नाम है राहुल is understandable and marks you instantly as translating.
This is day 2 of 7 in the sounds and script phase (days 1–7), whose job is hearing Hindi accurately and reading Devanagari slowly. It assumes you have done day 1. It sits in the middle of the phase, which is where most of the actual learning happens and where most people quietly stop. Day 3 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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