How Hindi Cards works
Switch on a few letter groups, type what you hear in your head, and let the misses come back until they stick.
Hindi Cards is a small, focused drill for one job: learning to read the Devanagari alphabet. There are no streaks, no daily goals and no notifications. You choose what to practise, you test yourself, and the letters you miss keep coming back until you know them.
1. Pick your groups
The Practice page lists every letter group in the order Hindi is usually taught: vowels and vowel signs first, then the consonants family by family, then numerals. Each group is a tile with a switch. Turn on the ones you want to drill; the tile darkens so you can see your selection at a glance.
Every tile shows its letters with their romanisation underneath, so the picker doubles as a reference chart. Your selection is remembered on this device, so next time you can begin straight away.
2. Begin the test
Press Begin Test (or Enter). A random letter from your selection appears on a card. Type how it sounds, for example ka for क. When your answer matches, the letter leaves the deck and the next one appears immediately; there is no submit button to slow you down.
If your answer is wrong, the card shakes and the letter stays in the deck. It will come back later in the round, and you have to get it right before the round can end.
3. Reveal when you are stuck
Press the space bar (or the Reveal Answer button) to flip the card and see the answer. Use it as a hint, not a habit: the goal is to retrieve the sound from memory, because that effort is what makes it stick. Press Esc at any time to go back to the groups.
4. Read your results
The stats panel tracks three numbers as you go:
- Accuracy: correct answers as a share of all your attempts.
- Remaining: letters still in the deck.
- Incorrect: how many different letters you missed at least once.
When the deck is empty you will see your accuracy and a list of the letters that tripped you up. Those are the ones to look at before your next round.
A note on romanisation
Hindi has sounds English does not distinguish, so careful transliterations use dots and lines: ṭa for the retroflex ट versus ta for the dental त, for example. Typing those marks is a pain, so Hindi Cards accepts answers without them. ta works for both ट and त, and common spellings like aa for आ or ee for ई are accepted too. When you reveal an answer, you will see the precise form along with the alternatives.