Hindi for kids growing up in New Jersey

Your child hears Hindi at home, at community events, on Sunday calls to India — and answers all of it in English. Ten minutes a day with Kiki is how understanding turns into speaking.

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Ages 5-16 • First 4 conversations free • No card needed

Sunday morning Hindi, six days of English

New Jersey has one of the largest Indian communities in America — Edison, Jersey City, Monroe, Princeton, Woodbridge. And it has built real infrastructure for Hindi: weekend programmes, many run entirely by volunteers, teach thousands of children script, vocabulary, and shlokas, and give them a community to sing at the annual function with.

But an American kid's week is packed. School, soccer, swim, homework. Hindi gets Sunday morning, and then six full days pass in English before the next class. The grandparent call lands on the weekend too — India is nine and a half hours ahead — and your child mostly listens, nods, and answers in English.

Script and vocabulary are being taken care of. What's missing is daily speaking — a few minutes every day where your child produces Hindi out loud, somewhere it's safe to fumble. That is the slot Hindi Tutor fills.

The practice between Sundays

Keep the weekend class — it gives your child structure, script, and community. Kiki adds what a weekly class can't: ten minutes of real conversation every single day, with a companion who never runs out of patience and never switches to English out of convenience.

They talk out loud

Real voice conversations, no typing — closer to a call with family in India than an app

Built for kids who mix languages

Half a Hindi sentence, then English? Kiki celebrates the Hindi and gently builds from there

A reason to come back daily

Every conversation builds a new place in Kiki's town, shaped by the words your child actually said

You see everything

A weekly report shows what your child said, the words they used, and what Kiki works on next

Children across nine countries practise with Kiki

4,000+

Hindi sentences spoken by children on Hindi Tutor

210+

Families across 9 countries practise with Kiki

10 min

A day — short daily practice, not cramming

Curious what children actually say after a few weeks? Read the case study.

Questions NJ parents ask

My child already goes to a weekend Hindi school. +

Keep going — those programmes teach script, vocabulary, and community, and volunteers pour real love into them. Kiki adds the daily speaking reps in between, so what's learned on Sunday gets used on Monday through Saturday.

We're a mixed household — my spouse doesn't speak Hindi. +

Very common, and it works fine. Kiki doesn't need a Hindi-speaking adult in the room. Your child gets daily practice you don't have to provide or supervise, and the weekly report keeps both parents in the loop in English.

My child understands everything but answers in English. +

That's the single most common starting point on Hindi Tutor, and it's a stage, not a verdict. We wrote about why it happens and what helps: My child understands Hindi but won't speak it.

What does it cost? +

The first 4 conversations are free — no card needed. After that it's $10.99/month in the US (3- and 6-month plans work out cheaper per month). Nothing is charged unless you choose a plan, and you can cancel anytime.

Hear where your child's Hindi is — in ten minutes

4 free conversations with Kiki. Your child has fun; you get to listen to them actually speaking Hindi.

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First 4 conversations free • No card needed