This content was created by Akash Gautam. This content was uploaded by Akash Gautam. This is a YouTube episode titled "Vocab Dhaba Retro Special, S1 Ep 4: Akash Gautam- Happy Guy, Motivational Speaker" (published 2020-06-13). It is a bilingual (Hindi-English) conversational retro special in which Akash Gautam and a co-host/RJ-style speaker (labeled SPEAKER B) use lines from 1970s–80s Bollywood songs to teach and illustrate advanced English vocabulary (examples: hubris, mendacious, vulpine, perfidious, taciturn, purloined, propinquity, yoke, parley/parlays, mendicant, coruscate, throes, peculate/larceny/speculate). The episode mixes language teaching, nostalgia, music references, and personal anecdotes in an informal, humorous, didactic format.
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मैं ज़िंदगी का साथ निभाता चला गया, हर फिक्र को धुएँ में उड़ा।
Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the super special episode of Dabba called the Retro Special. In this episode, we're going to use the super melodious songs of '70s and '80s to reach your heart first, and from your heart, we'll slowly move to your brain and minds and deposit sediment the difficult vocabulary words. Permanently out there. So आज चेक करते हैं कि ढाबा के मेन्यू में वो 12 व्यंजन कौन से हैं जो हम आपको सर्व करने वाले हैं।
Let's check out.
पहला hubris, mendacious, vulpine, perfidious, taciturn, purloined, propinquity, yoke, parlays, mendicant, coruscate. Thieves, speculate, and larceny. इन चौदह में से आपको कितने आते हैं? Check कीजिए. If you know more than twelve, twelve or more than twelve, you're in a great zone. And if you still do not know more than twelve, you're in the greatest zone because as usual you are the dhaba. और आपको घोट के पिला देंगे और कभी आप निकल भी नहीं पाएंगे. That's my commitment to you because we'll do it so interestingly, so interestingly that Even if you try to forget, you will not be able to forget. That's my commitment to you. So let's start.
Oh, गोरे रंग पे ना इतना घुमाने का ही गोरा रंग दो दिन में ढल जाएगा।
So this melodious song from the movie Roti, which came in 1974 starring Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz ji, such a beautiful song it is.
Oh, गोरे रंग पे ना इतना ह्यूबरिस गोरा रंग दो दिन में वेन हो जाएगा या एब हो जाएगा या फेड हो जाएगा।
But you remember hubris है? Hubris is excessive pride or self-confidence, excessive गुमान।
So गोरे रंग पे ना इतना hubris कर।
His hubris caused him to feel superior to his friends। उसमें hubris थी। Hubris means excessive pride used as a noun. So I'm sure you got it right. Did you? Let's check the next one.
पल भर के लिए कोई हमें प्यार करले, झूठा ही सही। Such a beautiful song.
Devanand Ji and Hema Malini starring in the movie Johnny Mera Naam.
पल भर के लिए कोई हमें प्यार करले, mendacious ही सही।
Mendacious means not telling the truth. Someone who's lying, as you and this word is used as an adjective. Mendacious. Stop your mendacious propaganda. It is an outright lie, a fabrication by a mendacious and unscrupulous writer. Mendacious मतलब lying, झूठ.
झूठा ही सही.
Mendacious ही सही. अब इस शब्द का काफी होमो निम्नस्थान. Similarly sounding word है. Mendicant. Mendicant means someone who lives by begging, or mendicancy. The worst affected because of corona are the mendicants because they live in a condition where social distancing is almost impossible. Mendicant means someone who begs alms for his survival. So, जो हिंदी में I should not be using this word, जो मांग के गुजारा करे, वो mendicant और पल भर के लिए कोई हमें प्यार करले मेंडेशियस ही सही ओ आज मौसम बड़ा बेईमान है बड़ा बेईमान है आज मौसम ओ आज मौसम बड़ा परफिडियस है बड़ा परफिडियस है आज मौसम।
बेईमान के लिए शब्द है परफिडियस, someone who's deceitful, who's not trustworthy.
So when you use it as a word, as an adjective, perfidious friends, perfidious acts, a perfidious lover. So बहुत तरह से परफिडियस को आप daily language use कर सकते हैं। ये शब्द आपको regularly मिलेगा newspapers में, news channels में, fictional books में परफिडियस। लेट्स लुक एट द नेक्स्ट वन।
एक चतुर नार बड़ी होशियार।
नाओ। पड़ोसन मूवी का एक गाना है जो कि सुपर हिट हुआ था उस टाइम पे और आज भी हिट है काफी लोग इसको पसंद करते हैं सुनना।
एक वल्पाइन नार बड़ी होशियार।
चतुर के लिए शब्द है वल्पाइन। थ्री इडियट्स में चतुर था, चतुर I hope you remember. I'm alluding to the speech that he made. एक चतुर नार means चतुर के लिए word है vulpine, something related to the fox. For example, equine is related to the horses. So vulpine is related to the fox. Karina gave a very vulpine smile when he asked her out for a date. Clever. होता है ना clever look? वो जो Star Plus में एक मालिका and those vamps they come and they give that nikka smile and sound, you know. Vulpine look, vulpine face, vulpine expressions. I'm sure you got it right. Chup chup खड़े हो जरूर कोई बात है। Chup chup खड़े हो जरूर कोई बात है। पहली मुलाकात है जी पहली मुलाकात है। पहली मुलाकात है जी पहली मुलाकात है।
Hmm taciturn खड़े हो जरूर कोई बात है।
Now taciturn means reserved or uncommunicative in speech, saying very little. I'm sure this word definitely reminds you of one of our ex-prime ministers of India, a great economist, but his personality was a taciturn kind. जो कम बोलते थे। Taciturn. Everything is good about my business except my taciturn business partner. So I'm sure you got this word right. चुरा लिया है तुमने जो दिल को मतलब परलॉइन कर लिया है तुमने जो दिल को परलॉइन इस वर्ब मींस तू स्टील समथिंग He managed to purloin the book from the library. I regularly find people purloining my from my blogs without giving any credits. Two important synonyms of this is speculate or larceny. चुरा लिया है तुमने जो दिल को मतलब speculate कर लिया है तुमने जो दिल को या larceny. These two words are very very important. Speculate and larceny because speculate means to embezzle or steal, especially from a government money or some fund. Speculate and larceny means the unlawful taking of personal Property of someone.
यूज़ एक और गाना याद आता है मुझे ऐसे चुरा के दिल मेरा घोरिया चली डुंडुंडुंडुंडुंडुंड।
Anyways, so मेरा दिल चुराया ना तो दूसरे की property चुराई। So the word is larceny. So purloin, speculate, and larceny these three words are very synonymous. They are they almost mean the same eighty percent to each other. The twenty percent as I said as I've been saying regularly requesting you please Back each of the words with a good dictionary so that you get the nuances correct.
तुझे जीवन की डोर से बांध लिया है, बांध लिया है.
Such a beautiful song, man. Listen in the midnight with eyes closed or open. It will transport you to a different orbit. So तुझे जीवन की डोर से योग कर लिया है, बांध लिया है, मतलब join कर दिया है. जो आप देख रहे हैं right-hand side top in top corner पे दो जो दांत हैं, जो ऑक्स हैं, उनको योक से जोड़ा गया एक वुडन स्ट्रक्चर जो होता है, आप देखते हैं, जो वुडन स्ट्रक्चर जिससे उनको जोड़ा जाता है, ज्वाइन किया जाता है। A wooden piece fastened over the necks of two animals is called as a yoke. This word is used both as a noun as well as a verb. It means to join together. His relatives helped him come out of the yoke of his creditors. योक means जो बंधित और जो बंधित हो जाती है, उसे हम योक कहते हैं।
मूवी थी असली नकली देवनंद जी और साधना दे स्टार्ड इन इट सो तुझे जीवन की डोर से योक लिया है योक लिया है तेरे जुल्मों से तम सर आँखों पर anyways let's get to next one before I get carried away further आजकल तेरे मेरे प्यार के चर्चे हर ज़बान पर सबको मालूम है और सबको खबर हो गई तो क्या आजकल तेरे मेरे प्यार के पार्लेज हर ज़बान पर।
पार्लेज, पार्लेज the word means both as a we use it as a verb as well as a noun and it means to speak with another talks discussions बातें to discuss terms with an enemy. There's a more formal meaning of this. Indian government refused to parlay with the Chinese counterparts. बातें जो आजकल चर्चाएं होती हैं उसको हम पार्लेज कहते हैं। आजकल तेरे मेरे प्यार के पारले हर ज़बान पर सबको मालूम है और सबको कब्र हो गई तो क्या पल पल दिल के पास now the word for this is propinquity तुम रहती हो दिल के पास रहना या किसी के nearness in space or time is propinquity the state of being close to someone or something is proximity or propinquity Close kinship, बहुत ही नजदीक रहना propinquity.
तेरे घर के सामने एक घर बनाऊँगा propinquity बिल्कुल past proximity.
He kept his distance as though afraid propinquity might lead him into temptation. Propinquity means नजदीकी दूरियाँ propinquity बन गईं अजब इत्तेफाक है कितने गाने याद आ रहे हैं मजा आ गया So I think my alternate career after being a motivational speaker could be an RJ of an old movie.
Oh, bindiya chankagi, chudi khankegi.
कितना क्या कितनी सुंदर है ममता जी यार. Just look at her. Just look at this picture. So pretty. So beautiful. You know where those where those people go by? Let me share before I give you the word. हमारी जो जवानी है ना दोस्त ये जो पंद्रह से चालीस साल तक का समय है although A lot of philosophers might say age is just a number, but we are very very active between fifteen and forty. ये पल भर की होती है यार एकदम निकल जाती है पता भी नहीं चलता शर्म भर की होती है। इसको waste मत कीजिए यार इसको बहुत ज़्यादा utilize कीजिए। I wish I could get a refund on the time that I spent on people and people issues। कोई भी इतना महत्वपूर्ण नहीं है कि आप उसके लिए अपनी peak years, peak time अपना गवाही है रोने में या breakup में या किसी भी मुद्दे में जो कि आपको damp कर Value your youth. Value, value definitely your youth. मैं कुछ समय पहले मेरे पापा 2003 में अभी नहीं रहे। I saw him in the peak of his youth. He was a top doctor, very famous, very sartorially elegant. Used to put on beautiful dresses. Then my grandfather I remember, grandmother I remember. वो generations ही खत्म हो रही हैं। हम और आप भी नहीं रहने वाले। So make sure you count me. Let your youth count. Let it count. So bindiya chamkegi, मतलब bindiya coruscate hogi. Chamkegi means flash or sparkle, to give off flashes of light. The diamonds began to coruscate in the bright light. Chamakna is coruscate, sang by Lata Mangeshkar in the— I remember the movie was Do Raaste, and Mumtaz ji was coruscating. Forget about her bindiya, she was coruscating. Coruscate means to flash or sparkle. I'm sure you got it right. Let's move to the last one for the day, and I'm sure you're gonna love that much also equally well.
दर्दे दिल, दर्दे जी गए, दिल में जगाया आपने, पहले तो मैं शायर था, आशिक बनाया आपने. दर्दे दिल।
हम्म, मोहम्मद रफी जी को मैंने replace करने की कोशिश की है, बहुत poor performance दी। But I still hope that you like it a bit. मोहम्मद रफी जी ने कर्ज movie में एक गाना गाया था, ऋषिकपूर और टीना मुनीम जी कठे थे। We lost ऋषिकपूर जी sometime back. Small dedication from my side. Throws दर्दे दिल मतलब throwsे दिल Throes means दर्द, the pang, the pain, intense pain and struggle, especially accompanying birth, death, or a great change in anything. The throes of childbirth, दर्दे दिल would be called as थ्रोजे दिल. दिल में मेरे हैं दर्दे डिस्को मतलब थ्रोजे डिस्को. Just a word, new word, new लज्जसम मेरा. दिल में मेरे हैं थ्रोजे डिस्को. So I'm sure with that I'm I'm I'm I'm Very confident you're never ever going to forget this word. So with that, ladies and gentlemen, we have come to the end of it. Let's look at how much of it could get into your elementary canal and forever became a part of you. Let's look at what we covered today: hubris, mendacious, vulpine. I again, yeah yeah. Hubris, गोरे रंग पे ना इतना। Anyways, perfidious, taciturn, purloined, propinquity. Yoke, parlays.
आज गलत है रे मेरे।
I'm sure you got these nine right. Let's look at the remaining ones. Mendicant, a beggar. Coruscate, bindiya coruscate hobi. Darde dil, darde disco throws. And peculate, larceny. Synonymous words. One reason why this particular episode retro special is very close to my heart is because I was sporting my dad's clothes and Roteke was wearing my mum's saree. And the clothes themselves imported us to an emotional retro level. Till the time we meet again with a newer, the sequel of retro, with more mischievousness to ensure that the words become a permanent part of you, this is Akash Gautam signing off from the coolest hub on internet. Asta la vista, baby!
