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Every day of the week ends in वार and begins with a planet — the same logic as the English names. Time uses बजे, and 1:30 and 2:30 are irregular (डेढ़, ढाई) with no rule behind them.
Say what time it is, out loud, every time you check the clock today.
| English | Hindi | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | सोमवार | somvaar |
| Tuesday | मंगलवार | mangalvaar |
| Wednesday | बुधवार | budhvaar |
| Thursday | गुरुवार | guruvaar |
| Friday | शुक्रवार | shukravaar |
Applying साढ़े to 1:30. साढ़े एक is not a thing; it is डेढ़.
This is day 2 of 8 in the past tense and real speech phase (days 23–30), whose job is the two things self-study reliably gets wrong. It assumes you have done day 23. It sits in the middle of the phase, which is where most of the actual learning happens and where most people quietly stop. Day 25 continues from here.
About 25 to 35 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. 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.
Days 21 to 30 cover the past tense, ने and real-speed listening. Those three are the ones that self-study reliably gets wrong, because you cannot hear your own errors. An hour a week is enough to stop them setting.
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