Numbers 1–10

Numbers 1–10 are simply memorized in both languages

Both English and Hindi treat one through ten as a closed set of unrelated words — there's no shortcut, you just learn ek/one, do/two, tīn/three, and so on individually, the same way you'd learn any vocabulary list. The real divergence between the two number systems doesn't start here — it appears once you cross into the teens and twenties, where English suddenly regularizes with a repeating '-teen' and '-ty' pattern, while Hindi's numbers keep inventing a fresh, semi-irregular word for nearly every number all the way up to one hundred. Enjoy this first stretch: it's the one place where neither language gives you an advantage over the other.