🇮🇳 The best podcasts for learning Hindi

Hundreds of lessons built around a short dialogue that is then broken down line by line, with PDF notes, an audio dictionary and word lists; a free lifetime account gives limited ongoing access and paid tiers run roughly $4–25 per month depending on plan and length of subscription. It is a solid listening supplement, especially where Hindi lacks polished commercial courses. It is not a structured path to fluency, lesson quality is uneven, and the site pushes discount emails hard.

SBS publishes new Hindi audio most days — usually under fifteen minutes, mixing news, interviews and community stories, all free and available as a podcast feed. The episodes are short enough to use as daily listening once textbook dialogues stop challenging you, and the speech is natural rather than slowed down. Coverage skews to Australian and diaspora topics, so it is not a substitute for Indian news if that is your interest.

Mihalis Eleftheriou records real lessons with a real student and walks you through constructing the language yourself using cognates and logic — Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Swahili are covered. Completely free, no ads, no sign-up, funded by donations. The Spanish course in particular is one of the most recommended free resources anywhere; the trade-off is small vocabulary and no reading or writing practice.

Mark Pentleton teaches a genuine student while you listen in, across French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Japanese and Gaelic. The podcast seasons are free on any podcast app and are structured as a real curriculum rather than scattered episodes; the Academy sells premium lesson notes, video and bonus audio. Ideal commuting material for beginners through B1, and the Spanish and French series are the strongest.