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Eight honest questions about what you can actually do. Not a test — a placement. Answer as you really are, not as you would like to be; the whole value of this is in bringing an accurate answer to a first lesson.
Question 1 of 8
Can you read the Devanagari script?
Question 2 of 8
Can you introduce yourself — name, where you are from, what you do?
Question 3 of 8
Can you follow a Hindi conversation between two other people?
Question 4 of 8
Can you handle a transaction — asking a price, negotiating, paying?
Question 5 of 8
Do you use the correct gender on verbs when talking about yourself?
Question 6 of 8
Can you talk about the past — what you did yesterday?
Question 7 of 8
Can you watch a Hindi film without subtitles?
Question 8 of 8
Can you argue, explain or persuade in Hindi?
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No script, no sentences. The right first step is the sound system, not vocabulary — get the four-way consonant distinction into your ear before you memorise a single word, because errors made now are the ones that last.
Greetings, numbers, a handful of set phrases. You can survive a transaction and not a conversation. Priority: the present tense and noun gender, learned together.
You build your own simple sentences and make predictable mistakes. Priority: the past tense and the ने construction, which is the wall most self-taught learners never get over alone.
You follow the gist, speak with errors that do not block understanding, and lose the thread when people speed up. Priority: listening at natural speed, and the compound verbs that make Hindi sound Hindi rather than translated.
You can argue and explain. What is left is register and idiom — knowing when Sanskritic vocabulary is right and when it sounds like a newsreader in a kitchen. Priority: reading widely and being corrected on nuance.
If you grew up hearing Hindi at home, this scale will place you oddly — high on comprehension, low on production — and that is correct rather than a fault in the test. You are not a beginner and should refuse to be taught as one. Say exactly this in a first lesson: "I understand almost everything and cannot speak." A good tutor will restructure the whole course around it.
No, and it is important to say so plainly. It is a structured self-assessment: you answer honestly about what you can do, and it tells you where that places you and what to work on. There is no official Hindi level test that can be taken on a web page.
Because self-assessment against concrete can-do statements is more accurate for placement than a short multiple-choice test. 'I can ask for directions and understand the answer' tells a tutor far more than a score out of ten.
Bring it to a first lesson. The single most common waste in language tutoring is a first month spent at the wrong level, and telling a tutor 'I can follow but not speak' saves both of you weeks.
The most common waste in tutoring is a first month spent at the wrong level. Two sentences about what you can and cannot do prevents it.
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