You want to talk with the Hindi speakers in your family, but most courses either bury you in grammar tables or hand you tourist phrases you will never use at home. This episode shows how the course works, how a Hindi sentence is built, and gives you twenty survival phrases for today. Our word for today is शुरुआत (shuruaat) = the beginning. In this episode: • How this course is organised • The triple format • How a hindi sentence is built • Twenty survival phrases for home • A scene at home • How to study: listen, shadow, quiz • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key Hindi from this episode: वह चाय पीती है (vah chaai peeti hai) = she drinks tea. पापा खाना बना रहे हैं (Papa khaana bana rahe hain) = Papa is cooking. नमस्ते (namaste) = hello, said with a smile at any time of day. हाँ (haan) = yes. नहीं (nahin) = no. हाँ जी (haan ji) = yes, politely. The little word जी (ji) adds respect. ठीक है (theek hai) = okay, fine. शुक्रिया (shukriya) = thank you. धन्यवाद (dhanyavaad) = thank you, a more formal word. माफ़ कीजिए (maaf kijiye) = excuse me, sorry. कोई बात नहीं (koi baat nahin) = no problem, never mind. क्या? (kya?) = what? फिर से बोलिए (phir se boliye) = please say it again. धीरे बोलिए (dheere boliye) = please speak slowly. मुझे समझ नहीं आया (mujhe samajh nahin aaya) = I didn't understand. मुझे समझ आ गया (mujhe samajh aa gaya) = I understood. मुझे थोड़ी हिंदी आती है (mujhe thodi Hindi aati hai) = I know a little Hindi. इसका मतलब क्या है? (iska matlab kya hai?) = what does this mean? मैं ठीक हूँ (main theek hoon) = I'm fine. अच्छा (achha) = I see, okay, good. बस (bas) = that's enough. Perfect when someone offers a third helping. 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.