30 days to functional Nepali

Introduce yourself and respond to a name question

1. Greetings phrasebook (top 10)12m
2. Q: how do you say hello?5m
3. Devanagari overview (browse only)8m

Affirm, deny, and express gratitude with the right register

1. Yes / no / thank you Q&As8m
2. Pronouns & honorifics12m
3. Start your flashcard deck (add 10 cards)10m

Count, ask 'how much', and respond with a price

1. Numbers — full reference15m
2. How much costs?5m
3. Saaḍhe / sawaa / paune (price modifiers)10m

Order tea, water, dal bhat, and indicate dietary restrictions

1. Food phrasebook15m
2. Teahouse scenario walk-through10m
3. Print a dietary card5m

Ask for directions to common places

1. Directions phrasebook12m
2. Question words (kaha, ke, kati, kun)10m
3. Production drill (A1 filter)8m

Get help if something goes wrong

1. Emergency phrases hub10m
2. Medical scenario walk-through12m
3. Print the emergency card3m

Consolidate everything from days 1-6

1. Review your flashcard deck15m
2. Glance at the cheat-sheet5m
3. Culture quiz — see what you know12m

The single most important Nepali grammar distinction

1. Chha vs ho15m
2. Q: chha vs ho5m
3. Practice — A1 sentences10m

Present-tense forms for the safe-default honorific

1. Verb conjugation page18m
2. Try the conjugator tool10m
3. Full paradigm grid (reference)7m

Glue words that mark grammatical role

1. Postpositions explained18m
2. Sentence patterns10m

Talk about what happened earlier today

1. Past + past perfect18m
2. Practice — A2 sentences12m

Say 'I don't have', 'I am not', 'I didn't'

1. Negation patterns18m
2. Common mistakes (negation appears here)8m

Train your ear for sounds English speakers miss

1. Aspirated minimal pairs12m
2. Retroflex vs dental10m
3. Intonation — question vs statement10m

Consolidate grammar, push to ~150 cards

1. Review FSRS deck15m
2. Grammar cheatsheet glance8m
3. Culture quiz — try harder questions10m

Pick the right 'you' for the social context

1. Re-read with depth15m
2. Honorific imperatives12m
3. Kinship-as-address (daai, didi)8m

ni, ta, la, hai — the tone-marking pieces that change everything

1. Discourse particles18m
2. Aspect overview12m

How Nepali encodes 'how you know what you know'

1. Evidential copulas — raicha/hola/rahechha20m

X garnu / X hunu patterns — half the verb bank

1. Compound verbs18m
2. Causative verbs10m

Understand what young urban speakers actually sound like

1. Code-switching — urban speech15m
2. Reduplication (khaana-waana)10m

What you should know to not embarrass yourself

1. Browse culture topics15m
2. Cultural quiz (final pass)12m

Push toward CEFR A2

1. Check your CEFR estimate on dashboard3m
2. Review deck (target ~150 mature cards)20m
3. Nepali proverbs (ukhan-tukka)12m

First short narrative — story-based listening

1. Browse graded reader stories5m
2. Read: At the teahouse25m

Practice fluency in a low-stakes context

1. Pick a scenario5m
2. Describe a photo15m

The trail-specific phrase set

1. Trekking hub12m
2. Trail scenario10m
3. FSI lesson 15 (audio)15m

Long-form reading endurance

1. Browse blog posts5m
2. Listening practice20m

Know what's happening when you arrive

1. Festival hub15m
2. Subscribe to the festival iCal3m
3. BS/AD converter — practice5m

Where you're actually going

1. Pokhara — language + travel12m
2. Chitwan — language + travel10m
3. Lumbini — language + travel10m

Defensive vocabulary you hope you never use

1. Tourist scams — phrase callouts15m
2. Solo female travel safety12m

Why village Nepali sounds different from Kathmandu Nepali

1. Dialect variation18m
2. Full kinship matrix (35+ terms)12m

Self-assess and identify what to keep practising

1. Final dashboard check — CEFR + streak5m
2. Production drill — full B1 filter20m
3. Mature-card sweep (~300 target)20m
4. Share what you've built (testimonial)5m