Phone calls are the hardest listening in any language. There are no faces, the line crackles, and families talk in quick shortcuts and Hinglish. Many learners can manage a conversation in a room but freeze on a call. In this episode: • How to use this lab • Scene one: can you hear me? • Scene two: have you eaten? • Scene three: weather, health, missing home • Scene four: when are you coming? • Practice • Self-check questions with answers 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.