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Why these words come first

The things in a room get pointed at and named long before their uses are understood. That is why door, window, chair, table and bed sit in tier 1 of the TotWord catalog — tiers order the words by everyday frequency for the target age, not by theme, and the objects around a learner every day earn an early place on that list.

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.