Learn French in Hindi — Free French Course for Indian Students

Last updated: September 2026

Learn French in Hindi, free — 45 lessons that take you from A0 to A2. Hindi already gives you the nasal vowels and the dental t; this course spends its time on the two French vowel sounds Hindi has no answer for.

Hindi speakers and French: where you actually stand

This course is 45 lessons in 9 parts and takes a complete beginner from A0 to A2. It costs nothing, there is no sign-up, and the whole thing runs in your browser on a phone.

If Hindi is the language you think in, this is the page to start from. The course is the same one everybody else uses — what changes for you is which parts arrive almost free and which parts will take real work.

Be clear about the ceiling before you begin. This is A0 to A2: it does not teach B1 or above, it does not touch literature, and it is not preparation for DELF B2. It also will not help you fill in an application form, write a statement of purpose or answer a visa question, because those depend on rules that change — check official sources for those. What is here is the language foundation underneath all of it.

You never have to read the lessons in English to use them. The globe button at the top of any page puts the meaning of every French word, sentence and grammar note beside the French in Hindi.

Three things Hindi already hands you

Nasal vowels are the first thing most French teachers warn learners about, and you have had them since childhood. Hindi nasalises vowels with the ँ and ं marks exactly as French does with on, an, in and un. The two languages even share the nasal vowel qualities found in French pain and bon. This is the biggest available shortcut: the sound other learners spend a fortnight on is already in your mouth.

Hindi also separates त from ट and द from ड. French t and d are the dental pair, त and द, so you already own the right set. The common mistake for a Hindi speaker is not failing to hear the difference — it is reaching for the retroflex when French wants the dental.

And you already switch pronouns by relationship: आप, तुम, तू. French has two, vous and tu, so the instinct is there. What has to be learned is where the French line falls. French tu is used far more freely between colleagues, students and neighbours than तू ever is, and in France reaching for vous where tu is expected sounds distant rather than respectful.

One more thing in your favour, small but real: French runs left to right, like Hindi. That matters more than it sounds, because a learner whose script runs the other way has to fight their reading direction on every line of French they meet.

The French vowels Hindi has no answer for

French builds two vowels with rounded lips at the front of the mouth: the u of tu, rue and dessus, and the eu of deux, peu and heureux. Hindi has nothing in that position. Every Hindi front vowel — इ, ई, ए, ऐ — is made with unrounded lips, which is exactly why these two sounds feel impossible at first.

Here is how to build the French u. Say the French i, the ee in oui, and hold your tongue exactly where it is. Then slowly round your lips without letting the tongue drift backwards. The moment the tongue moves back you have produced Hindi उ instead, and that is the mistake nearly everyone makes for the first month.

The two back vowels they must never be confused with are ou, as in tout and roue, and plain u as in उ. Four words separate the whole set: tu, tout, rue, roue. Say them in that order, slowly, out loud, and do not move on until all four are different in your own ear.

For the eu vowel, deux against douze is the same test. dessus against dessous catches both pairs at once, and it is the one to use once the single words start working.

The French consonants Hindi will fight

Start with व. Hindi व is an approximant: the lips and teeth come close without touching, and no air is forced through a narrow gap. French v is a true fricative — the top teeth rest on the lower lip and the air is pushed through. Say vous with a Hindi व and it comes out soft and slightly wrong, and the same habit quietly damages voir, vivre and venir.

Four minimal pairs fix it. For v against b: vous against boue, vent against banc, veau against beau. For f against v: fin against vin. Those four cover the whole problem, and five minutes a day on them for a fortnight changes how you sound for good.

Aspiration is the second thing to unlearn. Hindi uses it to separate words — प against फ, ब against भ, त against थ. French does not use it at all. If you aspirate French p, t and k out of habit, every word remains understandable, but the result sounds heavy and unmistakably Indian.

Then the r. French r is made at the back of the throat, with the tongue out of the way. It is not Hindi र and it is not ड़. If you substitute either one, it is the habit most worth breaking early, because it is the one that stays with a learner for years.

Finally, silence. Most final consonants in French are not pronounced, and liaison joins the end of one word to the start of the next. Hindi marks far more of what it actually says, so French spelling feels like it is missing information. The course flags every silent letter and every liaison rather than leaving you to guess which ones apply.

Reading French from Devanagari

French uses 26 Latin letters, upper and lower case, and not one of them changes shape depending on where it sits in a word. Measured against Devanagari's conjuncts and half-letters, the shapes themselves are the easy part.

What is not easy is that French spelling is not phonetic. The same letter changes sound from word to word, and the accent marks are not decoration: the difference between é and è is the difference between the ay of café and the eh of mère. Accents change meaning, not just style.

The site writes out pronunciation in easy-to-read letters for every single French word, so you never have to guess a sound from the spelling. Every lesson also names the exact mouth position for the difficult sounds, because hearing a sound and being able to copy it are two different skills.

Take the alphabet lesson at the start slowly even if it looks trivial. It is 26 items, it takes twenty minutes, and it quietly prevents a thousand pronunciation errors later on.

Hindi students: use this as a course, not a website

The course follows the Common European Framework, so the levels mean something outside this site: A0 and A1 after the first six parts, then the start of A2.

Every lesson ends with a ten-question quiz and an answer key, and there are seven tests plus a final A1 exam. They are built the way an exam's questions are — a stem, four options, and a key that explains why. If French is a school or college subject for you, that is the part to work through honestly instead of clicking past.

The flashcards and the review section are for the vocabulary you keep forgetting, and they are worth ten minutes at the end of a session rather than a separate study block you will start skipping by week three.

And the ceiling once more, because it matters if you are studying: this reaches A2. It does not reach B1, it is not DELF B2 preparation, and it cannot replace a teacher who corrects your speech in real time. What it can do is get you reading, hearing and saying real French in order, with no gaps, for nothing.

Turning the site into Hindi

Open any page, tap the globe button at the top right, and pick Hindi. That is the whole setup, and your choice is saved on your own device, so you do it once.

Hindi is not built into the site the way Urdu is. When you choose it, the English text of a lesson is sent to a free translation service and the Hindi comes back, then it is saved in your own browser so the same text is never sent twice. The privacy page names both services.

The site is straight about the trade-off: machine translation is usually helpful, but it can be clumsy with short phrases, word order and polite forms. Treat the English line as the source of truth. If a translated line and the English line disagree, follow the English.

Your first two weeks

Day one: finish Lesson 1 in one sitting. It takes about half an hour, and afterwards you can greet somebody and spell your own name in French.

From there, fifteen to twenty minutes a day. Short and daily beats one long session a week, and it beats it by a wide margin when the work is mouth positions rather than vocabulary.

Pick two drills and do them out loud every day for the full fortnight: tu against tout and rue against roue for the vowels, and veau against beau for v against b. Two minutes in front of a mirror or a phone camera is enough. This is the part of French that a Hindi speaker can only learn by feeling the difference in their own mouth, and it is far easier to fix in week one than in year two.

Mark each lesson as done when you finish it. The progress page keeps the count and the roadmap shows which part comes next. If something is wrong — a translation, an answer key, an audio file — use the feedback page; corrections help the next Hindi speaker who arrives.

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