Breakfast in an Indian home is rarely a quiet bowl of cereal. Someone is making hot parathas one by one, someone else wants an egg, a child refuses milk, and a grandparent insists you eat more. If you stay with a family, the breakfast table is where you will be offered food most often, and where your Hindi will be tested first. In this episode: • The breakfast foods • Offering food • Accepting and refusing • Comments on taste • Table manners phrases • An invented breakfast scene • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key Hindi from this episode: नाश्ता (naashta) = breakfast, also any light snack. पराठा (paratha) = a flaky, pan-fried flatbread, often stuffed. आलू का पराठा (aaloo ka paratha) = potato-stuffed paratha. पोहा (poha) = flattened rice cooked with onion and spices. अंडा (anda) = egg. उबला अंडा (ubla anda) = boiled egg. दही (dahi) = yoghurt. अचार (achaar) = pickle. मक्खन (makkhan) = butter. दूध (doodh) = milk. चाय (chai) = tea, usually brewed with milk and sugar. और लो (aur lo) = take more. एक और (ek aur) = one more. आप क्या लेंगे? (aap kya lenge?) = What will you have? चाय या कॉफ़ी? (chai ya coffee?) = Tea or coffee? बस, बस (bas, bas) = enough, enough. पेट भर गया (pet bhar gaya) = I'm full. आधा ही (aadha hi) = just half. बहुत अच्छा है (bahut achchha hai) = It's very good. बहुत स्वादिष्ट है (bahut svaadisht hai) = It's delicious. नमक कम है (namak kam hai) = It needs more salt, literally salt is less. थोड़ा तीखा है (thoda teekha hai) = It's a bit spicy. चीनी ज़्यादा है (cheeni zyaada hai) = There's too much sugar. पानी मिलेगा? (paani milega?) = Could I get some water? मैं ले लूँगा (main le loonga) = I'll help myself. Season 3 · Spoken Hindi at Home: the complete self-study course for English speakers. Every Hindi item is given in Devanagari, Hinglish and English. Take the 52-question quiz after listening. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.