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🇮🇳 Hindi · Fluency Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Stories After Midnight

The same rooftop dhaba in Paharganj, past one: Rohan tells Noah's first day at the shop, he ate like an elephant, two sweets become two hundred, a story told a hundred times, a thousand, he drank water like a camel, so much chilli that he nearly died, every story doubles at this dhaba, so Noah makes it four hundred.

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THE STORY

The rooftop dhaba in Paharganj after one in the morning, the plates empty; Rohan and Noah say the familiar you to each other and to Sonu, Sonu the polite you and bhaiya to them, and the dhaba owner and Noah the polite you to each other.

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हाथी जैसाhaa-thee jai-saalike an elephant
पहले दिन ये हाथी जैसा खा रहा था.peh-le din ye haa-thee jai-saa khaa ra-haa thaa.On the first day he was eating like an elephant.
मैंने दो लड्डू खाए.main-ne do lad-doo khaa-e.I ate two laddoos.
दो सौ! मैंने ये सौ बार सुनाया है.do sau! main-ne ye sau baar su-naa-yaa hai.Two hundred! I've told this a hundred times.
हज़ार बार. आप हज़ार बार सुनाते हैं, भैया.ha-zaar baar. aap ha-zaar baar su-naa-te hain, bhai-yaa.A thousand times. You tell it a thousand times, bhaiya.
ऊँट की तरहoont kee ta-rahlike a camel
और ऊँट की तरह पानी पिया.aur oont kee ta-rah paa-nee pi-yaa.And he drank water like a camel.
अंकल जी, इसकी बात मत मानिए.an-kal jee, is-kee baat mat maa-ni-ye.Uncle ji, don't believe him.
मैं मर गया था.main mar ga-yaa thaa.I nearly died, as a man
इतनी मिर्च थी कि मैं मर गया था.it-nee mirch thee ki main mar ga-yaa thaa.There was so much chilli that I nearly died.

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