Hindi: Beyond the Basics
Move past simple greetings and start expressing your opinions, sharing stories, and navigating real-world Indian social life with confidence. Learn to handle complex social situations and understand the nuances of daily conversation.
Like Duolingo, but for Hindi: Beyond the Basics. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
54 levels across 4 sections, about 108 minutes end to end, roughly 22 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Expressing Your Thoughts and Feelings, Navigating Social Situations and Etiquette, Storytelling and Describing Events, and The Logic Behind the Sentences. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Hindi: Beyond the Basics
- The subject 'I' must take the postposition 'ko' to become 'mujhko' or 'mujhe'
- Lagna describes how a stimulus or situation strikes a person personally
- The object (tea) becomes the thing that 'is pleasing' rather than the thing being acted upon
- The person experiencing the feeling must be marked with 'ko/mujhe'
- The structural shift from 'I like' to 'To me, it is pleasing'
- Using 'lagna' to describe personal impressions
- The person (with 'ko') comes first in the sentence
- Activities act like nouns in 'liking' sentences
- The infinitive verb form (e.g., bolna, khana) is used as the subject of the liking
- The 'pasand hai' phrase concludes the sentence
- Sentences using 'pasand' (liking) require the 'ko' structure
- Sentences using 'lagna' (it seems/feels) require the 'ko' structure
- Correct word order for an opinion sentence
- Identifying when to use the 'ko' structure for preferences
- The verb 'chaahna' is used to express wanting or desiring
- The main action verb takes the oblique infinitive form ending in -naa
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Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Hindi: Beyond the Basics the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you want to say you like something, which form of 'I' should you use to start your sentence?
Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.
How to learn Hindi: Beyond the Basics, step by step
Go in order. 54 short levels across 4 sections, about 1 hour 48 minutes in all, five minutes a day.
- 1
Expressing Your Thoughts and Feelings
- Sharing Opinions and Preferences
- Talking About Your Hopes and Dreams
- Expressing Regret and 'What If' Scenarios
- Describing Physical and Emotional States
- 2
Navigating Social Situations and Etiquette
- Polite Requests and Softening Your Tone
- Giving and Receiving Directions in a Crowd
- Bargaining and Negotiating with Respect
- Handling Formal vs. Informal Introductions
- Accepting and Declining Invitations Gracefully
- Common Idioms for Daily Socializing
- 3
Storytelling and Describing Events
- Connecting Ideas with Transition Words
- Narrating Past Experiences in Detail
- Describing People and Their Personalities
- 4
The Logic Behind the Sentences
- Mastering Compound Verbs for Emphasis
- Understanding Passive Voice in Formal Contexts
- Using Postpositions to Show Relationships
- The Nuance of Echo Words and Reduplication
- Complex Sentence Structures and Clauses
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Questions about Hindi: Beyond the Basics
How do I learn Hindi: Beyond the Basics?
Go in order: start with Expressing Your Thoughts and Feelings, then Navigating Social Situations and Etiquette, then Storytelling and Describing Events, then The Logic Behind the Sentences. On Tomo that's 54 short levels, about 1 hour 48 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.
Is there a Duolingo-style app for Hindi: Beyond the Basics?
Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Hindi: Beyond the Basics is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.
Is the Hindi: Beyond the Basics course free?
Yes. Hindi: Beyond the Basics is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.
How long does it take to learn Hindi: Beyond the Basics?
54 levels across 4 sections, about 1 hour 48 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.
Do I need any background to start Hindi: Beyond the Basics?
No. It's pitched at an intermediate level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.
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