Actions

Why these words come first

A learner hears eat, sleep and go dozens of times before a single day is over — that is why these ten action words fill tier 1 of the TotWord catalog alongside family and the first nouns. Tiers order words by how often they turn up in everyday life, not by subject: a verb a learner hears constantly outranks a noun seen only sometimes, which is why eat and run sit beside mother and father rather than after every animal or colour word.

Each card below shows the action in progress — a person eating, running, sitting — next to the English word, its IPA transcription, a plain-English respelling anyone 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 act the word out where you can — sit down for sit, walk across the room for walk. Play the English clip first and the home-language clip second.