Indian English contains hundreds of everyday words borrowed from Indian languages: "chai", "roti", "dhaba", "kurta", "lakh", "jugaad", "auto", "dabba". Some have travelled into world English ("bungalow", "shampoo", "pyjamas", "jungle"); many more are used daily inside otherwise ordinary English sentences. These words carry sounds that English spelling does not show well (breathy consonants, retroflex T and D, long vowels, held double consonants), and even words you half-know ("yoga", "curry", "guru") can arrive with unfamiliar vowels. What you will learn: • Why loanword sounds matter • The breathy consonants: bh, dh, gh, jh, kh, PH, TH • Retroflex T and D in loanwords • Long vowels and held double consonants • Common loanwords by domain • English words you know, said the source way • Practice: decode the sentence • Listening strategies • Self-check questions to test your ear Level: B1–B2. Self-study: listen, then take the quizzes. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.