Textbook Hindi will get you through a meal with the grandparents, but the moment the cousins start chatting, or the teenagers come home from school, you will hear words that no textbook explains: mast, bindaas, jugaad, timepass. This is slang, the relaxed, playful layer of the language. Every word in this episode is clean and widely used, so you can say it without embarrassment. In this episode: • Great, cool and carefree • Nonsense, boredom and killing time • Plans, fixes and the scene • Trouble, showing off and something fishy • Calling each other: yaar, bhai, bro • A scene between cousins • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key Hindi from this episode: ब्रो (bro) = bro, borrowed from English. With friends only. 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.