Food

Why these words come first

A learner reaches for food and drink words within the first days of speaking. That is why rice, milk and bread sit in tier 1 of the TotWord catalog — tiers are ordered by how often a word turns up in an ordinary day, not by theme. More food topics will join later tiers as the catalog grows; this first set covers the words needed at nearly every meal.

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. Play the English clip first and the home-language clip second.