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🇮🇳 Hindi · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Three Scholars

Priya, a guest at the club, with a tale doctors tell each other: they say four friends went to study and three became great scholars, they say or is it true, I've heard it's two thousand years old, in the forest they found a lion's bones, as the story goes the three put the lion together, and the fourth, the fourth climbed the tree and the three, it is said, became breakfast, the half-full pot sloshes the most.

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THE STORY

Upstairs at the bookshop-cafe in Hauz Khas Village, Saturday at six, Priya as a guest with a tale from the old book of animal stories; Priya and Noah say the familiar you to each other, Kavita ji says the familiar you to both, and they say the polite you to her and to Verma ji.

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आज एक कहानी, जो डॉक्टर सुनाते हैं.aaj ek ka-haa-nee, jo daak-tar su-naa-te hain.Tonight a tale that doctors tell.
कहते हैं किkeh-te hain kithey say that
कहते हैं कि चार दोस्त पढ़ने गए, तीन विद्वान बने.keh-te hain ki chaar dost pa-rhne ga-e, teen vid-vaan ba-ne.They say four friends went to study, and three became scholars.
कहते हैं, या सच है?keh-te hain, yaa sach hai?They say, or is it true?
सुना है, दो हज़ार साल पुरानी है.su-naa hai, do ha-zaar saal pu-raa-nee hai.I've heard it's two thousand years old.
बताते हैं, जंगल में उन्हें शेर की हड्डियाँ मिलीं.ba-taa-te hain, jan-gal men un-hen sher kee had-di-yaan mi-leen.As the story goes, in the forest they found a lion's bones.
और चौथा?aur chau-thaa?And the fourth?
कहा जाता हैka-haa jaa-taa haiit is said
चौथा पेड़ पर चढ़ गया, और तीनों, कहा जाता है, नाश्ता बने.chau-thaa per par charh ga-yaa, aur tee-non, ka-haa jaa-taa hai, naash-taa ba-ne.The fourth climbed the tree, and the three, it is said, became breakfast.
अधजल गगरी छलकत जाए. डॉक्टर को पता है.adh-jal gag-ree chha-la-kat jaa-e. daak-tar ko pa-taa hai.The half-full pot sloshes the most. A doctor knows.