Listen to almost any Indian English conversation and you will hear words from Indian languages placed naturally inside English sentences: "Let's have chai." "We found a jugaad." "Is the meeting pakka?" "Let's stop at a dhaba." "It cost two lakh." For speakers, these words are simply part of their English; many now appear in major English dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary. For visitors, they can block understanding of a whole sentence. What you will learn: • Food and drink • Money and numbers • Social life and people • Everyday life and work • How to decode A new Indian word • Indian words in dictionaries • 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.