Body Parts

Why these words come first

Face, eye and hand are among the very first words any learner points to, which is why body-parts-01 opens tier 1 of the TotWord catalog. The theme keeps going well past tier 1, though — body-parts-04, further down the same series, sits in tier 3, because tiers order every word by how often it comes up at the target age, not by theme. A younger learner touches and names some parts constantly; an older learner only meets others in a science lesson, so the two land in different tiers even inside the very same topic family.

Each card below carries the picture, the English word, its IPA transcription, a plain-English respelling you can read aloud without training, and the meaning in Bengali or Hindi. Tap the round button to hear it in the language you picked above.

Pick one topic per sitting — five words is a full session. Say the respelling, not the IPA, when reading aloud, and point to the real part as you say it. Play the English clip first and the home-language clip second.