Hindi for Travel, Food and Daily Life: 266 Flashcards to Memorize Before Your Trip

Two weeks in India will teach you which Hindi words you actually needed: the ones for the auto-rickshaw fare, the ones on the restaurant table, and the handful that turn a blank stare into a conversation. That is the shortlist the Hindi Practical: Travel, Food and Daily Life deck (code QF8758, 266 cards) on Flip It puts in front of you — and unlike most travel decks, it opens with full sentences, not isolated nouns.

Where the deck starts

What the 266 cards cover

Survival openers: नमस्ते, अलविदा, धन्यवाद, कृपया, माफ़ कीजिए, मदद!, स्वागत है.

Food, the largest block: चावल, रोटी, चपाती, दाल, सब्ज़ी, पनीर, दही, घी, मसाला, चाय, समोसा, बिरयानी, नान, पराठा, डोसा, इडली, तंदूरी, मिठाई, शाकाहारी (vegetarian), मांसाहारी (non-vegetarian), plus the market list: आलू, प्याज़, लहसुन, अदरक, मिर्च, पालक, फूलगोभी, मटर, गाजर, आम, केला, संतरा.

At the table: नाश्ता, दोपहर का खाना, रात का खाना, मेन्यू, बिल, थाली, चम्मच, काँटा, चाकू, प्याला, गिलास, बोतल, बर्फ़, भूखा, प्यासा, मीठा, मसालेदार, स्वादिष्ट.

Getting around: हवाई अड्डा, रेलवे स्टेशन, बस स्टैंड, रिक्शा, टिकट, पासपोर्ट, वीज़ा, सामान, बाएं, दाएं, सीधे, पास, दूर, प्रवेश, निकास.

Money and shopping: पैसा, रुपया, बैंक, बाज़ार, दुकान, कीमत, महंगा, सस्ता — with the full Indian number ladder from एक to करोड़ (crore).

Trouble: डॉक्टर, अस्पताल, दवाखाना, दवा, बीमार, दर्द, सिरदर्द, बुखार, पुलिस, आपातकाल, खतरा, सुरक्षित.

Daily frame: days सोमवार to रविवार, all twelve months, सुबह, दोपहर, शाम, रात, आज, अब, and twelve colours from लाल to गुलाबी.

Three quirks to know before your first review

कल means both yesterday and tomorrow. The deck lists कल twice, once for each, and that is not an error: Hindi marks the distance from today, not the direction, and the verb tense resolves it. Drill the two cards side by side so the ambiguity registers as a feature. While you are at it: नाश्ता is filed twice, as breakfast and as snack — also correct.

The romanisation stops halfway. The first 204 cards give Devanagari only; the numbers, colours, weekdays and months at the end carry transliteration in brackets. Start with that tail end — शून्य (śūnya), तीस (tīs), नीला (nīlā), बुधवार (budhvār) — and use the paired script and sound as your reading primer before attacking the untransliterated majority.

Adjectives are stored in the masculine. ठंडा, गरम, बड़ा, छोटा, अच्छा, महंगा all end in -ा here, but they must agree: चाय ठंडी है, not ठंडा. Whenever a card ends in -ा, rehearse the -ी form with a feminine noun you know — रोटी, चाय, दुकान, सब्ज़ी.

Last thing: the imperatives आओ, जाओ, रुको, इंतज़ार करो are tum-level, fine with a friend and brusque with a stranger. Say आइए, जाइए, रुकिए, इंतज़ार कीजिए instead — the same polite ending you already met in माफ़ कीजिए.

Once these 266 are automatic, widen out with the 948-word Hindi core vocabulary deck.

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