But I Taught You That Word Last Week.

I remember saying that to my children more than once. We had gone through the meaning together, used it in a sentence, and understood it perfectly that evening. A week later, it was as though we were meeting it for the first time again.

At first I wondered if they had not been listening. Over time I realised the problem was not the child. In Singapore, children cover an enormous amount of Hindi. By the time one chapter is done, the class has already moved on. New words arrive every week while older ones are rarely revisited.

The हिंदी Lab was built so words keep coming back. A child meets them again in Reading Aloud, in the daily शब्द शक्ति quiz, and in शब्द चुनौती through spelling tiles and sentence-reorder games that link the same vocabulary in a new way. Often enough for something taught last week to still feel familiar next month.