Learn Hindi with music

Hindi film music is the largest body of clearly-sung, well-documented lyrics in any language, which makes it an unusually rich source for a learner who wants both everyday speech and poetic register.

Watch for: postpositions after the noun, and the Urdu-Hindi vocabulary split in older songs.

1. 1Connect Spotify and press play on any Hindi track.
2. 2The lyric line lights up in time with the vocal, with the English right below it.
3. 3Tap a word to keep it. It lands in your vault for review later — the song never stops.

• Arijit Singh

  Clear, slow, enormous catalogue.

• Prateek Kuhad

  Conversational Hindi and English side by side.

• Shreya Ghoshal

  Precise classical diction.

• The Local Train

  Simple rock Hindi.

• Lata Mangeshkar

  Classic Hindustani vocabulary.

A song repeats the same phrase four or five times and you don't mind. Melody carries the words into memory the way rote repetition never does, and because you chose the track, you'll play it again tomorrow.

Free: one language, 20 saved words, 3 songs a day.

Pro from $1.99/month: unlimited words and songs. Pro Unlimited adds every language.

Can I really learn Hindi from songs?

Not on its own — but as the listening and vocabulary half of your study it beats any app, because you repeat willingly. Singuistic adds the reading and review half.

Do I need Spotify Premium?

You need a Spotify account so we can read what's playing. Playback works with what your account already allows.

Which songs have synced lyrics?

Most popular tracks. When a song has no synced version we show the plain lyric, still translated.