This isn't a grammar course. It's for the moment you understand every word and still freeze when it's your turn to answer. Our Gujarati phrasebook is built for real conversations — ordering food, catching up with family, holding your own at a wedding — written in English letters and paired with audio so you know exactly how it should sound.
Comes as a paperback with a companion Spotify audiobook, so you can listen on the school run and actually use it at the dinner table.
No script to decode — just say it the way it's written. Tap a card to reveal the meaning.
Real examples from the book, written exactly the way you'll say them out loud.
FIRST WORDS
SOUTH ASIAN
FOR THE DIASPORA
ENGLISH TRANSLITERATION
It started with a simple idea: learning your family’s language shouldn’t mean learning to read a new script first. Every book we make is written in English letters, so speaking comes first — and confidence follows.
So many of us in the diaspora understand our language perfectly, and still freeze the moment it’s our turn to speak. Our books exist for that exact moment: real words and real phrases, written exactly the way you’ll say them out loud.
The Desi Dictionary is made by the diaspora, for the diaspora. We hope this one earns a place on your family’s shelf.
