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WELCOME!

We welcome you with the traditional Hindi greeting “Namaste,” which means “I bow to you,” and are very pleased to take you on a short journey through Hindi, the official language of India.

With a little bit of instruction about how Hindi works, we will help you properly communicate with the locals in India. We’ll help you speak to others on various basic “survival” topics, such as introducing yourself, asking for directions, ordering food, paying a bill, bargaining with a local vendor, and even reporting an incident to police. Essentially, all the things you might find most useful to say are in this survival guide for getting by in Hindi.

Our years of experience teaching Hindi to non-natives, along with vast personal interactions with foreigners in India, have armed us with an abundance of detailed cultural and linguistic information. We hope that here in Survival Hindi, it will serve to ease your journey, and give you a sense of joy in more fully understanding India and its people. Let’s begin!