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Free tool: Write your name in Hindi — type any name and see it in Devanagari, with every letter explained.

1 Start here — the sounds and the script

Hindi is phonetic and finite: forty-four letters, each with one sound. Two or three weeks here and you can read anything, which is why it comes before vocabulary rather than after it.

1. The Hindi Alphabet: A Complete Beginner's Guide to Devanagari Learn every Hindi letter with its sound and an English example. Vowels, consonants and matras explained simply, with a printable chart and the order to learn them in.
2. How to Write Your Name in Hindi — With the Full Letter Guide Write any English name in Devanagari, letter by letter. A complete sound-to-letter table, worked examples for common names, and the four mistakes everyone makes.
3. Hindi Numbers 1 to 100 — Why They Are Hard, and How to Learn Them Anyway Hindi numbers are genuinely irregular, unlike most languages. Here is the full 1–100 list with pronunciation, plus the pattern that makes them learnable and the shortcut Indians actually use.

2 First words — say something to a person

The fastest way to stop learning a language is to spend a month on grammar before speaking to anybody. These are the things you can use in week one.

1. How to Say Hello in Hindi — And When Namaste Is the Wrong Word Namaste is not the only Hindi greeting, and sometimes it is the wrong one. A practical guide to greeting people in Hindi by time, age, religion and situation.
2. 50 Hindi Phrases for Travelling in India — What You Will Actually Use The Hindi phrases that genuinely matter when travelling in India: bargaining, autos, trains, food and being unwell. Written by people who use them, not copied from a phrasebook.
3. Hindi Family Words — Why There Are Twelve Words for Cousin Every Hindi family relation with pronunciation, and the logic behind why Hindi has separate words for your father's brother and your mother's brother when English does not.
4. Days, Months and Telling the Time in Hindi The days of the week, the months, and how to tell the time in Hindi — including dhai and saadhe, the half-hour words that confuse every learner.

3 How Hindi actually works

The grammar, once you have words to hang it on. Read in this order — word order first, then gender, then verbs — because each one assumes the last.

1. Hindi Word Order — Why the Verb Goes Last Hindi puts the verb at the end and postpositions after the noun. Once you see the pattern, sentences stop feeling backwards. With worked examples and the questions that trip people up.
2. Hindi Gender — Why Your Verb Changes Depending on Who Is Speaking Every Hindi noun is masculine or feminine, and the verb changes with the speaker's own gender. The rules, the patterns that let you guess, and the exceptions worth memorising.
3. Hindi Verbs — Present, Past and Future in One Page Every Hindi tense you need to hold a conversation, with the endings laid out plainly. Includes the ne rule that catches everyone and the honest shortcut for beginners.
4. Aap, Tum or Tu — Getting Politeness Right in Hindi Hindi has three words for you, and choosing wrong can be genuinely rude. Who gets which, how the verb changes with each, and the safe default when you are unsure.
5. 10 Mistakes Every Hindi Learner Makes — And How to Stop The errors that mark you out as a learner, why each one happens, and the fix. Written from what actually goes wrong in lessons, not from a textbook.

4 Going further

Context rather than instruction: what to watch, where Hindi ends and Urdu begins, and an honest comparison of every way to learn.

1. How to Actually Learn Hindi Online in 2026 — An Honest Guide Apps, YouTube, textbooks or a tutor? A frank comparison of every way to learn Hindi online, what each one is genuinely good for, and roughly how long fluency takes.
2. Learning Hindi from Bollywood — Which Films, and What It Will Not Teach You Films are a genuinely good way to learn Hindi, if you pick the right ones and use them properly. Recommendations by level, plus an honest list of what film Hindi gets wrong.
3. Hindi vs Urdu — What Is Actually Different, and What Is Not Hindi and Urdu speakers understand each other completely, yet the languages are treated as separate. A clear explanation of the script, vocabulary and history behind the split.