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से means 'from', and like every Hindi postposition it goes AFTER the noun: भारत से, India-from. English puts it before; Hindi puts it after. There is no exception to learn.
Build five sentences about five places. मैं लंदन से हूँ. Say them aloud.
| English | Hindi | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| I am from … | मैं … से हूँ | main … se hoon |
| Where are you from? | आप कहाँ से हैं? | aap kahaan se hain |
| I speak a little Hindi | मैं थोड़ी हिंदी बोलता हूँ | main thodi hindi bolta hoon |
से before the place, out of English habit. It never goes there.
This is day 1 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 7. 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 9 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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