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🇮🇳 Hindi · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Old Customer's Bench

Rohan films the shop's oldest customer on the bench in Chandni Chowk and Noah asks: the shop was just like today, only the lane was quieter, his father brought him every Saturday for a jalebi as big as his face, bigger than his face, the halwa is still like in his father's day, the home hen is worth dal, and this shop is like his own home.

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THE STORY

The bench outside the shop in Chandni Chowk on a November morning, Rohan filming on his phone; the old customer, eighty, calls Noah son with the familiar you, and Noah and Rohan say the polite you to him.

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बताइए, आप बच्चे थे, तब दुकान कैसी थी?ba-taa-i-ye, aap bach-che the, tab du-kaan kai-see thee?Tell us, what was the shop like when you were a boy?
आज जैसी हीaaj jai-see heejust like today
आज जैसी ही, बस गली ज़्यादा शांत थी.aaj jai-see hee, bas ga-lee zyaa-daa shaant thee.Just like today, only the lane was quieter.
मानो कल की बात होmaa-no kal kee baat hoas if it were yesterday
आप ऐसे बताते हैं मानो कल की बात हो.aap ai-se ba-taa-te hain maa-no kal kee baat ho.You tell it as if it were yesterday.
मेरे चेहरे जितनी बड़ीme-re cheh-re jit-nee ba-reeas big as my face
पिताजी हर शनिवार लाते थे, एक जलेबी के लिए, मेरे चेहरे जितनी बड़ी.pi-taa-jee har sha-ni-vaar laa-te the, ek ja-le-bee ke li-ye, me-re cheh-re jit-nee ba-ree.Father brought me every Saturday, for one jalebi, as big as my face.
चेहरे जितनी बड़ी?cheh-re jit-nee ba-ree?As big as your face?
चेहरे से भी बड़ी, बेटा! और हलवा आज भी पिताजी के ज़माने जैसा.cheh-re se bhee ba-ree, be-taa! aur hal-vaa aaj bhee pi-taa-jee ke za-maa-ne jai-saa.Even bigger than my face, son! And the halwa is still like in Father's day.
और घर का हलवा?aur ghar kaa hal-vaa?And the halwa at home?

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