One row per week: theme, grammar focus, and the brief the storyboard is generated from. Weeks beyond the built range are the planned design.
| 1 A1 | Arrival & introducing yourself Equational आहे; pronouns मी/तुम्ही/तो/ती; काय/कुठे questions and the yes-no tag का (आहे का?); माझं नाव … आहे Maya's arrival day in Mumbai, knowing no one — stepping out of the airport into the mild January night, the sea somewhere in the air. Across the day: she lands and meets a stranger, takes a kaali-peeli taxi (giving her address), settles into her small flat, takes in the enormous unfamiliar city with a pang for Mexico, makes a quick audio call home, and meets her neighbour Asha. |
| 2 A1 | First day & getting connected Present tense -तो/-ते (मी काम करते); numbers 0–100 as words; possession माझ्याकडे … आहे and its negation नाही; age — मी … वर्षांची आहे Her first days getting settled — her first day at the software company, where her colleague Rohan welcomes her and shows her to her desk. She gets an Indian SIM over a lunch break — the form wants her age, and she reads her new number to herself to make sure it is right; the next day she registers at a government office. She gives her new number. The number is spoken only in those two places. A celebratory chai and vada pav when the errands are done. |
| 3 A1 | Family back home Possessives माझा/तुमचा/त्याचा/तिचा agreeing with the thing possessed; the indefinite एक; कोण questions A slow Sunday shaped by the call home — her first proper video call, morning in Mumbai, evening the day before back in Mexico. Before it, a small errand: she picks up sweets at the corner shop, something to show the family. The call itself: her mother and father, her little sister Sofia, her big brother Diego, and the family dog Lola — a little show-and-tell both ways, a glimpse of her room, a glimpse of home. After the goodbye she walks her street in the Sunday quiet, a touch homesick, the voices still with her. |
| 4 A1 | Moving into her own flat Locatives -त/-मध्ये/-वर (खोलीत, टेबलावर); place words वर/खाली/जवळ; placement with ठेवला आहे (review there is) Moving day — Maya leaves the temporary room for her own permanent flat in the same building; her real home at last. She lets herself in and carries in her bags and suitcases, settling into the small furnished flat room by room, deciding where everything goes — with a light touch from Asha. |
| 5 A1 | Food shopping & the kitchen Wanting and liking with the dative experiencer — मला हवं and मला आवडतं; the object marker -ला on people Her cupboards are empty, so Maya stocks her new kitchen. She works the aisles of a supermarket and the corner kirana shop: rice and spices, vegetables she knows and one she has never seen, what she likes and what she wants for the week — and carries it all home. |
| 6 A1 | Settling into a routine Present continuous -त आहे (करत आहे) for actions underway, woven naturally through a simple-present routine One ordinary weekday for Maya. She gets up, washes and dresses, gets her bus, and settles at her desk; at midday she eats with her colleague Rohan; in the evening she cooks, relaxes and goes to bed. |
| 7 A1 | Time & appointments Clock time वाजता (किती वाजता?); weekdays & months; frequency adverbs नेहमी / कधीकधी / रोज Maya fills her calendar for the week: the gym on her regular evening, a haircut she books over the phone, a bicycle repair. A coffee with Asha, added midweek, lands at the same hour as another appointment, so she moves one. Not every time is on the hour. No prices — money belongs to week 9. |
| 8 A1 | Getting to know the city Polite imperatives जा/वळा; directions सरळ, डावीकडे/उजवीकडे; -कडे (towards) A Saturday out in the city. Asha sends her off with a route; from there strangers direct her, and when she gets lost one of them shows her the way back. She reaches the sea face at Marine Drive, watches the water and the long curve of the road a while, and rides the bus home able to picture her part of the city. No prices — money belongs to week 9. |
| 9 A1 | At the market & prices Prices — किती झाले? / काय भाव आहे?; amounts as words; द्या/हवं at the stall A morning at a busy outdoor market — Maya goes stall to stall for everyday food and a few non-food things. Vary the transactions so no two stalls are the same — a taste offered, an item too dear that she skips, a weighed per-kilo price, change from a note — not the same ask-price-pay each time — and vary how the price arrives too: sometimes she asks, sometimes a board shows it, sometimes the vendor names it unprompted. |
| 10 A1 | Clothes & dressing for the heat Adjectives as a system — चांगला/मोठा/लहान agreeing in gender and number (and the invariable ones); घालणे (wear) The March heat is arriving, and Maya shops for light cotton clothes. In one clothing shop she tries on and buys a few things — each garment its own complete scene (she picks it up, tries it, decides) — with sizes, colours and prices. One she likes but it is too expensive, so she leaves it. |
| 11 A1 | Mumbai weather Weather expressions ऊन आहे / गरम आहे / पाऊस पडतोय; simple future -ईल for the forecast (पाऊस पडेल) Hot season days. One ordinary day told through its weather: Maya wakes to a bright hot morning, checks the forecast, and dresses for the heat. Out in it, the day turns — hard sun on the street, then a sudden evening shower, rare this early in the year, the first rain she has seen here. She closes the day cool at the window. |
| 12 A1 | Free time & meeting people The -ायला form (खेळायला) with आवडतं / जाते; ability with येणे (मला खेळता येतं) — landing inside varied actions and exchanges, not as declarations To get active and meet people, Maya joins a local badminton club on her own — she has played for years back home. Club evenings are Thursdays; from this week her Thursday gym slot becomes badminton (gym continues Tuesdays). She finds the club, signs up and rents a racket, then joins a doubles game with three friendly players, Amit, Neha and Sanjay (new faces), and arranges to come back. |
| 13 A1 | At the Irani café Polite requests — द्याल का? / मिळेल का? / हवं ladder; thanking A stop at an old Irani café, with polite ordering as the focus — Maya finds a seat under the slow fans, orders a chai and a bun maska at the counter, later asks for one more thing and then the bill, and thanks the staff. Each exchange its own complete scene, with small moments between. |
| 14 A1 | Public transport चढणे/उतरणे (board/alight); -ने with vehicles (बसने, ट्रेनने); जायचं आहे (need to get to) Maya crosses the city by public transport — she buys a ticket, and rides a BEST bus and the metro, changing metro lines, stepping off near the sea for an errand. Solo, plus a ticket-counter worker, a fellow passenger and a shop worker at the errand's end. The metro is the last leg. |
| 15 A1 | A1 review — a day in the new city Mixed present-tense narration; consolidation. BOUNDARY: no past tense anywhere — the simple past opens week 16 A full ordinary weekday, start to finish: morning routine at home, the commute, a stretch at work, an errand or two that echo earlier weeks without repeating them (a shop, a bit of transport, a tourist asking the way), with Rohan at work, and home in the evening for a neighbourly catch-up with Asha next door. |
| 16 A2 | Talking about the past Simple past -ला/-ली/-लं (आले, गेले; transitives agree with the object — मी चहा प्यायला); time phrases काल / गेल्या आठवड्यात / जानेवारीत (the perfect -ला आहे is out of scope — week 19 owns it) After badminton, Amit and Neha ask how she ended up in Mumbai, and Maya tells them: the January arrival, the taxi with her new address, meeting Asha the first day, her first day at the office. On a call home later, Maya mentions the storytelling, and her mother — who lived that goodbye herself — asks to hear Maya's telling of it anyway; the story comes out again, warmer, with her mother adding her own side of the airport morning. |
| 17 A2 | A trip out of the city Past-tense narration; स्वतःचा vs त्याचा/तिचा (one's own vs another's); time expressions The heat is high, and Maya takes a weekend train trip up into the hills at Lonavala, told in the past as a travel diary: the train climbing the ghats, people-watching on board, a slow walk to a viewpoint over the valleys, and the ride home tired and happy. |
| 18 A2 | Health & the doctor दुखणे (माझं डोकं दुखतंय); body parts; बरं आहे / बरं वाटत नाही; advice with -वं (तुम्ही आराम करावा) The change of season brings Maya's first ailment here — a heavy cold as the first rains break the heat. She calls the clinic and books a time, tells the doctor where it hurts and how she has been feeling, and picks up something from the pharmacy on the way home. |
| 19 A2 | Work & colleagues Perfect -ला आहे (मी केलं आहे — what she has done); professions A real project lands at the office, and Maya works closely with the whole team for the first time: Rohan, and the colleagues she knew only by face — the designer Priya, the tester Vikram, the boss Suresh — Priya and Vikram explaining what they do and how long they have done it, Suresh welcoming her aboard. She presents her part at the team's short morning meeting. |
| 20 A2 | Volunteering at the café Past + perfect mixed; शिकणे + -ायला (learning to); ordinals पहिला/दुसरा Maya starts volunteering Saturday mornings at a neighbourhood café — to meet people, she takes the counter side of that world. Her first shifts, told as they happened: the experienced hand shows her the coffee machine, her first coffee comes out wrong, her second better. |
| 21 A2 | Buying clothes Comparative -पेक्षा (यापेक्षा मोठा); मोठा/लहान; trying on and exchanging A humid Saturday: Maya shops in town and buys a raincoat and a shirt before the monsoon. At home the shirt is too small. She goes back with the receipt for an exchange: asks for a bigger size, tries the bigger one in the mirror, and it fits better. |
| 22 A2 | Cooking & local food Imperative sequences; quantities (अर्धा किलो, दोन चमचे); आधी/मग/त्यानंतर Maya cooks a simple Maharashtrian meal for Neha and Amit. She finds a recipe, shops for the amounts it calls for, and cooks it step by step. Her friends arrive and they eat together at her small table. Solo cooking, then the shared meal. |
| 23 A2 | Making plans & friends Future -ईन and "let's" करू या/जाऊ या; reporting thoughts with की (मला वाटतं की…) Priya, from the project in week 19, invites Maya to her home for dinner. Maya plans the visit — what to bring, when to leave, how to get there, talked through with Rohan at work — and brings something along. Over the meal they talk as friends for the first time. |
| 24 A2 | Looking after Asha's dog Imperatives + object pronouns त्याला; rules with पाहिजे / करू नये (must / must not) Asha goes away for a weekend and leaves her dog Moti with Maya, with a few rules for his care — when he's fed, what he may and may not have, where he must stay on the lead. Maya looks after him across the weekend: she feeds him, walks him, and calls him back when he wanders off. |
| 25 A2 | A Sunday in the city Demonstratives हा/तो + हे/ते as a system; पूर्वी (ago — दोन महिन्यांपूर्वी); time adverbs A slow Sunday with nowhere to be, the June monsoon coming and going in bursts. Maya wanders a Sunday market, stopping over this and that, then spends an hour out of the rain in a museum. Threaded through it is how long ago things now feel — she thinks back over her arrival and her first months here. |
| 26 A2 | The monsoon & her birthday Perfect -ला आहे vs past -ला contrast Peak monsoon — rain hammering the city for days, and Maya loves it. Two things fall in the same week: the fiercest downpour of the season yet, watched from the balcony with Rohan and Priya, and her own birthday — her first away from home; she turns thirty-two. Friends mark the day with her, and she looks back over her first months against the day in front of her. |
| 27 A2 | Phones, internet & admin online Habitual -त असते (करत असते); instructions; the formal passive केले जाते of official language Maya updates an account detail on a public self-service website — the small admin everyone puts off. She usually does this on her phone in the evening: she logs in, works through the form, and waits for a one-time code. When the first code never arrives, she works around it and finishes. |
| 28 A2 | A2 review — a week in the new life Consolidation across all A2 grammar A full ordinary week in the life Maya has built, start to finish — a morning at the office with Priya, where the big project is now just work, a badminton evening against Neha, a quiet errand, a Saturday café shift, a meal cooked, and dinner with Asha. Threaded through, the odd backward glance at how far off January feels. |
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