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34 topics, each with a page that explains it properly and links to every guide, question, answer and tool on the site about it. This is the map: start anywhere and you can always see what comes next.
Where to start, in what order, and what to ignore for now. · 7 pages
44 letters, why they are ordered the way they are, and how the vowel marks work. · 7 pages
Aspiration, retroflex consonants, and the four-way distinctions English speakers cannot hear at first. · 3 pages
Why nobody can give you an honest single number, and what actually determines it. · 9 pages
Word order, postpositions, gender agreement and the one construction that defeats self-study. · 6 pages
Three tenses, gender agreement, and the noun-plus-करना trick that gives you hundreds of expressions free. · 2 pages
Verb last, postpositions after, and how to stop translating from English in your head. · 3 pages
The first thousand words, where they come from, and the free vocabulary your own language may already give you. · 7 pages
Three levels of 'you', and the cost of choosing wrong. · 4 pages
Why production is the bottleneck, and why it is the one thing you cannot do alone. · 3 pages
Why comprehension lags behind everything else, and the only thing that fixes it. · 3 pages
The stages between knowing the letters and reading a sentence without effort. · 4 pages
Stroke order, the top line, and why typing is not the same as writing. · 4 pages
What a real conversation needs that a phrasebook cannot give you, and how to survive your first one. · 5 pages
When namaste is right, when it is oddly formal, and what people actually say. · 8 pages
Autos, trains, bargaining and the phrases that change how you are treated. · 3 pages
The two spice words that are not the same, and why refusing food once does not work. · 2 pages
Catching a price said at speed, and knowing when bargaining is expected. · 2 pages
Why they are harder than they look, the pattern that saves you, and lakh and crore. · 4 pages
The seven days and their planets, the month names, and the two clock times that follow no rule. · 7 pages
Short, unambiguous phrases for medical, police and lost-and-stranded situations. · 2 pages
Hindi has separate words for relations English lumps together — and there is a reason. · 3 pages
The register question, meeting parents, and why the film version is not the spoken one. · 2 pages
What is actually spoken in an Indian workplace, and why the textbook register is the wrong one. · 1 page
What works at different ages, and the reason a bilingual child answers you in English. · 1 page
Why you are not a beginner, and why being taught as one wastes months. · 4 pages
What films are genuinely good for, what they are bad for, and how to use them without wasting hours. · 3 pages
यार, अच्छा, बस and the small words that carry a conversation. · 3 pages
Code-switching is not broken Hindi, and pretending otherwise makes you harder to understand. · 3 pages
Two scripts, two vocabularies, one spoken language. · 3 pages
Which Indian languages are close relatives, which are not related at all, and what that means for a learner. · 2 pages
The ones that fossilise, in the order they cost you most. · 3 pages
Spaced repetition, what it is good at, and the point at which it stops helping. · 5 pages
Transliteration, not translation — and why there is often more than one correct answer. · 3 pages
Most learning sites are a pile of articles with a search box. The problem with a pile is that you cannot tell what you have not covered. A map tells you. If you can see that you have read four pages under "The system" and none under "The four skills", that is a genuinely useful thing to know about your own learning.
Each topic page is written to stand on its own — it is not an index with a sentence at the top. Read it, then follow the links underneath into the specific guides, questions and tools on that topic.
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