Hindi reading
List of YouTube listening videos for Knapczyk’s ‘Reading Hindi: Novice to Intermediate’, chapters 1-31, including Station par and Sukhdev ka Dhaba.
Author: HindiCentral
Mithaai ki dukaan par
Video for a Hindi role-play at a mithai shop (Mithaai ki dukaan par), with a YouTube link for speaking practice.
Role-play shopping for vegetables
Role-play script for shopping for vegetables in romanized Hindi, with a customer and shopkeeper bargaining and vegetable names to substitute.
Role-play ordering food at the restaurant
Role-play script for ordering food at a restaurant, with romanized Hindi phrases and an AI prompt for writing your own customer and server dialogue.
Basanti hawa
I am the wind, the spring wind, with no home, no purpose and no worries. Kedarnath Agrawal’s playful ‘Basanti Hawa’ with a line-by-line English translation.
Teri meri prem kahani
Opening lyrics of ‘Teri meri prem kahani’ from the film Bodyguard (2011), with English glosses and a YouTube link.
Mere Raja ki aayegi baarat
Opening lines of ‘Mere Raja ki aayegi baarat’ from the film Aah (1953), with a short word glossary and a YouTube link.
मेरा जूता है जापानी mera joota hai Japani.
Lyrics of ‘Mera joota hai Japani’ from Shree 420 in Devanagari and romanized Hindi, with English translation and a YouTube link.
Main koi aesa geet gaaun मैं कोई ऐसा गीत गाऊँ
Fill-in-the-blank lyrics of ‘Main koi aisa geet gaaun’ from Yes Boss (1997), with subjunctive verbs to circle, glosses and a YouTube link.
Kunwar Baichain (tal nahi sakta)
Kunwar Baichain’s Hindi poem ‘Tal nahi sakta’, shared as an image for poetry reading practice.