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🇮🇳 Hindi · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 19 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Dadi ji on camera

Dadi ji on the shop's bench in Chandni Chowk, Rohan filming and Noah asking: when she first came to the shop, a bride of seventeen who saw this pan before her husband's face, the first jalebi a year after the wedding at that same stove, the move to Lajpat Nagar when the children grew, every Diwali since that day until now, what's past is past, and new things last nine days, old ones a hundred.

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THE STORY

The bench outside the Sharmas' sweet shop in Chandni Chowk on a winter morning, Rohan filming Dadi ji on his phone; Rohan and Noah say the polite you to Dadi ji, and Rohan says the familiar you to Noah.

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दादी जी, नोआ की तरफ़ देखिए. नोआ, पूछो.daa-dee jee, no-aa kee ta-raf de-khi-e. no-aa, poo-chho.Dadi ji, look at Noah. Noah, ask.
आप पहली बार दुकान कब आईं, दादी जी?aap peh-lee baar du-kaan kab aa-een, daa-dee jee?When did you first come to the shop, Dadi ji?
पति से पहलेpa-ti se peh-lebefore my husband
सत्रह की दुल्हन थी. पति से पहले यह कड़ाही देखी.sat-rah kee dul-han thee. pa-ti se peh-le ye ka-raa-hee de-khee.I was a bride of seventeen. Before my husband, I saw this pan.
शादी के एक साल बादshaa-dee ke ek saal baada year after the wedding
पहली जलेबी शादी के एक साल बाद, उसी चूल्हे पर.peh-lee ja-le-bee shaa-dee ke ek saal baad, u-see chool-he par.The first jalebi a year after the wedding, at that same stove.
और परिवार ने गली कब छोड़ी?aur pa-ri-vaar ne ga-lee kab chho-ree?And when did the family leave the lane?
उस दिन से अब तकus din se ab taksince that day, until now
बच्चे बड़े हुए, तब. उस दिन से अब तक हर दीवाली आती हूँ.bach-che ba-re hu-e, tab. us din se ab tak har dee-vaa-lee aa-tee hoon.When the children grew, then. Since that day I come every Diwali, until now.
जो बीत गई सो बात गई.jo beet ga-ee so baat ga-ee.What's past is past.

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