Vocab Dhaba Season 1, Ep 1 : Akash Gautam - Motivational Speaker, Happy Guy :)

29 May 2020 · 22 min

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The video is an edutainment episode of the "Vocab Dhaba" series hosted by Akash Gautam (with assistant Atharv Gautam) that teaches thirteen advanced English vocabulary words through a blend of Hinglish banter, Bollywood/movie references, and comedic sketches. The hosts present themselves as a 24/7 online dhaba, promising to serve “dishes” of vocabulary to viewers stuck on the “English vocab highway.” They introduce each word with a mnemonic hook tied to Indian pop culture – e.g., bucolic linked to "desi boys" and rustic life, gainsay illustrated with a song‑like chant, inamorata and incognito drawn from the film Dream Girl, encore, trepidation and blandishments anchored to 3 Idiots, and other words such as bedlam, camaraderie, pernicious, affray, extant, blandishment, deleterious (delirious) explained with examples from Dangal and everyday scenarios. Throughout, the hosts intersperse audience‑style chants, jokes, and calls to action (subscribe, tip, share). The video concludes with a recap of all thirteen words, encouragement to practice, and a branding pitch for future episodes.

Chapters

Make some noise for the desi boys!
One, two, three, go!
English tumke dil ki ridam pe mare cham.
चमके देसी बॉयज़ सोने मोने बनके छती डोले तनके चे चमके देसी बॉयज़ लेडीज एंड जेन्मेन बॉयज एंड गर्ल्स वेलकम टू द कूलेस्ट धावा ऑन इंटरनेट द वोकेब धावा आई एम योर मेन स्टीवर्ड योर वेटर आकाश गौतम एंड असिस्टिंग मी इज माय छोटू My— your assistant waiter, Atharv Gautam. And together, both of us, we're going to serve each of you who are stuck on the English vocab highway. We present to you English with a desi tadka in a crazy, in a funny, in a totally eccentric way. We are a 24/7 dhaba on internet. You can log in anytime, park your vehicle, and devour any many dishes as you want.
If you want a powerful vocabulary, In instant time, this is the place. Bollywood, Hollywood, songs, advertisements, cricket—we will do to any extent to get the word connect right.
Basically, इनके कहने का मतलब यह है कि हम किसी भी हद तक गिर सकते हैं, जब तक वो difficult vocabulary word आपके ज़हन में हम घुसाना दें drill ना करें। No preaching, no global ज्ञान, just plain pure desi learning here. You know, on a serious note. We have to share something serious, very serious with you. Our plannings have really gone haywire. Initially, we were— for the shooting of this Vocab Dhaba, we were intending to go to Switzerland like a Yash Raj movie, Yash Chopra movie. But then, you know, these are Corona times. Corona came in and the flights got cancelled. We were taking a chartered flight, but then we thought we must respect the law. And another problem that I'm sure you would be having with us is that none of us is a female. You would have preferred Alia Bhatt or a yeah, Alia Bhatt standing by me instead of an Atharv Gautam. But then you know, दुनिया कहाँ पर चलती है? Problems आ गई.
कहाँ पे है problems?
बात पैसे पे आ गई. पैसे दे रही थी वो. लेकिन हम बिकाऊ नहीं हैं. हमारी values ऐसी हैं कि हम पैसे चप नहीं करते. So you'll have to bear both of us. We're going to present to you hundreds of difficult vocabulary words, utility words which you will see on the news channels, read in the newspapers. And which appear in the competitive exams, and we will serve you in a total sauce of fun.
Okay, so आज ढाबा के मेन्यू में है क्या? आज हम आपको तेरह व्यंजन सर्व करेंगे।
We're going to serve you with thirteen, thirteen very sumptuous dishes.
Let's look at the menu first. Starting with Bucolic, Bedlam, Gainsay, Encore, Trepidation, Camaraderie, Pernicious. Affray, extant. नौ हो चुकी हैं। देखिए कितनी आती हैं आपको नौ में से। And then we move to the tenth one, blandishment. And three more today: inamorata, incognito, and deleterious. So in तेरह में से आपको कितनी आती हैं? अगर आपको दस से ज़्यादा आती हैं, it clearly means that you have had a pedigreed reading habit. You have stayed a good reader in your life till now. And in case you do not know more than ten Then you are in a better zone because you are at the dhaba and we promise you कि अगले 10-12 मिनट में हम ये तेरा की तेरा आपको घोट कर पिला देंगे और अंदर तक घुसा देंगे ताकि आप कभी भी ना बोलें इनको ये मेरी आपसे कमिटमेंट है पर उसके लिए आपको मुझे अगले 15 मिनट 200 परसेंट देने पड़ेंगे I am hoping आप देंगे Okay so let's make noise for the bucolic boys. Desi boys, Rocco and Hunter. Rocco and Hunter, you know, bucolic boys. So bucolic boys, bucolic शब्द को हम थोड़ा डिटेल में देखते हैं। Bucolic is something when used as an adjective, it suggests a village or a rural life. Desi boys, the connect that you can help you remember is desi boys would be called as bucolic boys, and desi ghee would be bucolic ghee. जो आपकी मामा, दादी, नानी और कहीं पर पापा भी चपाती बनाते हैं तो उसके ऊपर क्या लगाते हैं? देसी घी नहीं, देसी घी नहीं, आज से होगा बिकॉलिक घी। याद रखने के लिए, you don't have to necessarily use it 100%. The connects are almost 80% right. 20% you have to back each of the connects with a good dictionary. This is just as a mnemonic to help you remember. So the synonym of बिकॉलिक would be rustic. Rustic. So let's make noise for the Bucolic boys. Nana Patigar. I know, myra, nana acting बहुत cheap रही है. I couldn't do it right, but still you have to bear with me. Nana Patigar would be called as Gense Patigar. I hope the connect is as it really gets into your mind. Nana Patigar would be called as Gense Patigar. Now let's look at the word here first. Gense. जरा सा झूम लूँ मैं। गेन से, गेन से, गेन से। He she he gain said it. ना रे ना रे ना। Now the meaning of word gain say is to to deny, to deny, to dispute, to contradict. मना कर देना। कोड़ी मैंने केंद्री, मैंने जुद्दी ले दे सोनिया। I gain said her. मैं क्या ना सोनी है, ना ना ना ना, ना ना करते प्यार तुम्हीं से कर बैठे। Could be said as गेन से करते प्यार तुम्हीं से कर बैठे। I hope with all this this word has really become a part of your vocabulary for your entire life.
Hello? Hello? Hello hello.
मैं पूजा बोल रही हूँ।
पूजा रानी कैसी हो? साले तेरा बाप बोल रहा है इधर देख शर्म नहीं आती? Sorry, I'm sure you would have loved that movie Dream Girl आयुष्मान कुराना की। उस Dream Girl movie में आयुष्मान कुराना पूजा बनके ऐसे-ऐसे गधों को सेंटी करता था और ये सेंटिया ही वो घूमते रहते थे। Anyways कोई बात नहीं है, उम्र है कोई बात नहीं। So Dream Girl movie के लिए आज हम दो words करेंगे उस movie से and I promise these two words would get into your head permanently. The first word that we're doing out of the movie Dream Girl Is the word in amorata. I N A M O R A T A. In amorata. In amorata means dream girl.
किसी की जो crush हो या एक lady जो किसी का प्यार हो, उसको कहते हैं हम in amorata.
In amorata.
Right.
और second word we're doing out of this movie is Ayushman Khurana. He acted so brilliantly well in this movie. He's also from Chandigarh. Yeah, he is. Yeah. सारे do Chandigarh जाएँगे ना? So anyways, so so Second word we're doing in here is incognito. I N C O G N I T O. Incognito. Incognito. आयुष्मान खुराना ने इस मूवी में पूजा बनके लोगों को सेंड किया, अपनी true identity को hide करके, conceal करके, conceal अपने आप को कुछ और show करके। That is the word is incognito. हम इन दोनों words को greater depth में अभी देखते हैं।
So let's revise again. Inamorata is dream girl. Dream girl is enamorata. That is a word. The meaning of enamorata is a person's female lover. We're just revising everything again. His new enamorata is a suspense. And the second word that we did out of this movie was incognito, and it could be used both as an adjective and as an adverb. The meaning of this is, uh, when one's true identity is hidden or concealed. He's a top cop of India, but these days he has gone incognito. Must be some special ops. अभी एक मूवी आई थी अनजाना अनजानी सात-आठ साल पहले। उसको याद रखने के लिए है, we can say incognito, incognito. Oh sorry, that's really weird. But incognito means something when when one's true identity is hidden. More memory connects to help you get in forever are Krish or Spider-Man in the movies. They wear a mask to remain incognito because they don't want Their real identity to to get known to the people, और वो कहते थे ना हम तुम तो निकले बड़े छुपे रुस्तम मतलब incognito रुस्तम and pandavas they spent one year incognito and ravan he went to kidnap sita मतलब incognito अपना वेश बदल के गए थे वो right so I think with all these memory connects these words are there to stay with you. Incognito and one more connector. Incognito browser. I'm sure a lot of you would not want me to explain what I'm talking about in here. Anyways, let's move. Tiger is extant. Tiger zinda hai, Salman bhai. Tiger zinda hai, niche enamorata hai, inge ki nahi? Nahi, pata nahi. So it's suspicious case. Now tiger is extant. It means tiger is zinda. Tiger zinda hai. So the word extant means as an adjective. It means still in existence, something which is still surviving. Many terrorist groups are still extant in JNK. They're still functional. They haven't gone dead. They're still in existence. Tiger zinda hai. This tiger is extant.
खाना पीना साथ है, मरना जीना साथ है. खना पीना साथ है, मरना जीना साथ है सारी जिन्दगी ये दोस्ती हम नहीं तोड़ेंगे तोड़ेंगे दम गए तेरा साथ ना छोड़ेंगे कौन सी मुवी का गाना आएगे?
शोले और इस गाने को हम चेंज करते हैं अंग्रेजी वोकाब ढाबा स्टाइल में ये कमरादरी कमरादरी ये कमरादरी हम नहीं तोड़ेंगे कमरादरी means C A M A R A D E R I E कमरादरी means दोस्ती तो जिन्हों जो मिलेनियल्स हैं जिन्होंने शोले मूवी नहीं देखी दिक्कत है आप पे but अगर आपने नहीं देखी कोई बात नहीं अभी पांच-छह स कमरादरी, right? So happy friendship day would become happy camaraderie day. Let me give you another cool way to remember it. When two friends can share a कमरा and a दरी, they have a camaraderie. एक बार फिर से मज़ा आया थोड़ा सा। एक बार फिर से। When two friends can share a कमरा and a दरी, they have camaraderie. You got that? I'm very sure you got that.
Yes.
एक बार फिर से देखते हैं camaraderie को। As I said, as we said. भाईचारा और ब्रदरहुड इस कमरादरी। हैप्पी फ्रेंडशिप डे इस हैप्पी कमरादरी डे। The movie दोस्ताना इस कमरादरी। And the best memory connect, my friend Haslaremani shared with me. He works in Google now. Sharing again with you. When two friends can share a कमरा and a दरी, they have कमरादरी, right? I'm sure after this you're never going to forget it. Now we're going to three words in one go. Encore. Trepidation and blandishments. Encore, trepidation and blandishments.
सारी उम्र हम मर मर के जी लिए एक पल तो अब हमें जीने दो जीने दो ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना ना Give me some sunshine. Give me some rain. Give me another chance. I want to grow up once again.
Now we love this movie, all of us, did not we? The movie was Three Idiots, and we're going to do three words out of this movie. इस मूवी से हम तीन शब्द अभी commonly आपके दिमाग में हम drill कर देंगे। पहला शब्द है he said सारी उम्र हम दर दर के जी लिए। दर दर के means trepidation। so let me speak the spelling is T R E P I D I T I O N D A T I O N spelling mistake okay sorry the spelling the word is trepidation T R E P I D A T I O N trepid सारी उम्र हम trepidation में जिए इसको हम detail में check करेंगे slide पे with the usage meaning and all different forms. More connects as well. The second word we're doing in here is he further says, give me another chance, I wanna grow up once again. So he's seeking another chance, once more, once more, once more. And the word for that is encore. E-N-C-O-R-E. Encore. When you ask for a repeat performance, for example, when Kohli goes to bat, or Sachin used to go to bat, what did— when he— when they used to hit the For a six, what did the crowd say with the placards on? Once more, once more, once more. Which clearly means in English, encore, encore. Yeah, E N C O R E. Another way to do an encore is that movie came in a stream movie. जहाँ लिखा होता था घर के बाहर लिखे थे ओ स्त्री कल फिर आना, कल आना या फिर से आना मतलब repeat you know they don't want it today कल आना repeat कल फिर आना encore means once more, once more. And the third, what we do out of this is is blandishments. We were saying encore once more, once more. So for the people who are fans of Kings XI Punjab, if they used to go to the Mohali Stadium, what did the fans used to say or write on the placards? They used to say "एक बारी हो चन्ना, एक बारी हो" means once more, एक और चक्का, once more. So these are blandishments. The what we're doing is B L A N D I S H-M-E-N-T-S. Blandishments means positive words of encouragement so that to elicit something very good out of someone else. So we're going to check these 3 words on slides in more detail so that you never ever forget them. Let's do it now.
Encore means once more, again. After the amazing performance, the audience started applauding and shouting, once more, once more, once more, encore! We already done it. We just recapitulating it for you. उस त्री कल्फेराना encore trepidation सारी उम्र हम trepidation में जिए a feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen or may not happen when used as a noun. The way news channels report about corona these days, it can easily fill the viewer's mind with trepidation. Right? Third word that we did. From a single song was blandishments. As I said, one you can hit one more six. एक बारी हो चन्ना। You know we are we are positively encouraging someone, a flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something. वो कहते हैं ना कर सकते हो तुम करके दिखाओ ये वो दिस डेट यू नो. So these are blandishments. The blandishments of the brochures of private engineering and MBA कॉलेजेस, ब्रोशर्स अगर आप देखते हो ना तो उसमें बड़ा कुछ लिखा होता है। हमारा कॉलेज आपके लिए ये कर देगा, वो कर देगा। यूजुअली करता कुछ नहीं है, but still these are the blandishments. गोलमाल हो, गोलमाल हो, गोलमाल। so गोलमाल again, तरोत छठी मूवी। if you are like that genre, could be called as bedlam. bedlam, bedlam. So Golmal returns would become Bedlam returns. Golmal again would become Bedlam again. So Bedlam means a scene of uproar and confusion. There was Bedlam in the Parliament, but then it is so common in India, na? We you visit a zoo or a Parliament. There's a lot of intersection.
Anyways.
Dinga danga dinga danga dinga danga dinga danga dinga danga dinga danga dinga. Reba pu dinga danga dinga danga dinga danga dinga danga dinga dinga dinga.
पढ़ाई कर पढ़ाई कर पढ़ाई कर बापू सेहत के लिए बापू सेहत के लिए तू तो हानिकारक है अरे बापू सेहत के लिए तू तो हानिकारक है इतनी अंग्रेजी सिखा रहा हूँ जब से कोरोना स्टार्ट हुआ दो महीने सभी भी तू हानिकारक बोल रहे हैं बापी हाँ so the what we doing here is बापू सेहत के लिए तू तो डेलीटेरियस है I'll get it स्पेलिंग्स बस डेलिटीरियस इस डीईएलीटीआरआईओयूएस डेलिटीरियस और एक सिनोनिम और साथ में करेंगे आज हम दंगल मूवी से चार शब्द निकालेंगे और परमानेंटली आपके दिमाग में घुसा देंगे बापू सेहत के लिए तू तो डेलिटीरियस है और इसका सिनोनिम है परनिशियस पीईआरएनआईसीआईओयूएस अभी स्लाइड पे दंगल। फिर से अंग्रेजी नहीं आई कितनी वक़्त कराई तो मैंने अभी से जो सॉरी अफ्रे, अफ्रे। The word for दंगल is अफ्रे। A double F R A Y. अफ्रे means पंगा। You know हमारे पंजाब में normal लोग भी जब बात करते हैं तो ऐसा लगता है कि वो अफ्रे हो।
क्या हो रहा है?
वैसे this is a real misconception about Punjabis. Punjab is you know Punjabieth, गुरबानी सोने के मिट्टी। हाँ फिर भी हम इतने आजकल थोड़े उजड़ रहे हैं इसके बारे में बाद में बात करेंगे पर एफ्रे मींस दंगा अगर फिजिकल वो हो ब्रॉल हो तो उसे कहेंगे हम एफ्रे एफ्रे लेकिन अगर फिजिकल ब्रॉल ना हो सिर्फ वर्बल हो वर्बल एक्सचेंज हो गाली-गलौच तो उसे कहेंगे हम अल्टरकेशन गाली-गलौच नहीं but वैसे ही बापू सेहत के लिए तू तो delirious है। और synonym क्या है उसका?
Pernicious।
हाँ, और movie कौनसी है ये?
Dंगल, which is F-ray.
F-ray. And अगर जो पंगा हो वो सिर्फ मतलब सिर्फ verbal हो, alteration. Altercation. Let's check the words in greater detail on the slide here.
So we did four words out of this. बापू सेहत के लिए विचार से रेड लेट्स रिकैप्चुलेट अगेन फॉर यू एक बार फिर से रिवाइज करते हैं बापू सेहत के लिए तू तो परनिशियस है डेलिटेरियस है डेलिटेरियस है सो एस एन एडजेक्टिव द मीनिंग इस काउजिंग हार्म और डैमेज प्लेइंग लॉट्स ऑफ पबजी कैन हैव डेलिटेरियस इफेक्ट्स ऑन चिल्ड्रन डैमेज The RBCs उसमें deform हो जाते हैं pernicious anemia means very very very deadly anemia है ना तो उसकी cure मिल गई है पर पहले नहीं थी तब pernicious कहते थे उसको affray is दंगल just revising it for you the meaning of affray is an instance of group fighting in a public place that disturbs the peace he was charged with causing an affray I'm hoping you got that you got that right okay And again revising. If dangle is verbal, then it is called as altercation. Altercation. जब स्पोर्ट्स में यूजुअली हो जाती है ना, you know altercation. So let's revise. How many of these thirteen words have you finally found them forever in your mind? Let's check. Do you know the meaning of bicolic? क्या होता है?
बोल के बताइए।
वीडियो के साथ साथ बोलिए। Let me see how smart you are. Bicolic. Let's make noise for the bucolic voice. Desi bedlam is golmal, uproar, noisy confusion. बहुत ज़्यादा golmal returns means bedlam returns. गेन से means ना ना ना ना ना ना। कोड़ी मैंने केंद्री मैंने जुत्ती दे दे सो ले दे सोनिया। I gain said her encore once more once more once more repeat performance. Trepidation. सारी उम्र हम trepidation में जिए। Camaraderie, भाईचारा। When two friends can share a कमरा and a दरी, they have camaraderie. Pernicious. Pernicious is is the deadly enemy. पापू सेहत के लिए तू तो बहुत pernicious है। Affray. Noisy disturbance. पंगा, दंगल। Extant. Something which is still in existence. Tiger जिंदा है, tiger extant है। Inamorata, someone's beloved, a lady who you have a crush upon. Incognito, with one's true identity hidden. जब आप रावण सीता माँ को kidnap करने के लिए भेष बदल के गया था, incognito. Hello, मैं पूजा बोल रही हूँ, incognito. Delirious, I'm sure you know, it is the same as pernicious. So with that, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we have lived To our commitment of serving you with the thirteen words, you would not believe how much fun we had in the making of this video. And we wish to make dozens of such videos. And for you to be the first one to receive these videos in your inbox for the first, all you need to do in here is press the bell icon. Ah, bell icon को press कीजिए so that हमारा सारा मेहनत हमारे ढाबे का खाना आपको बस fresh पहुंच सके, stain ना पहुंच सके। और अगर आपको अपने वेटर्स अपने स्टीवर्ड्स की सर्विस पसंद आई, पसंद आई है तो आप हमें टिप दीजिए और टिप में हम आपसे कोई मनी नहीं मांग रहे। All we seeking out of you is that you show us some love and you can show us a lot of love by sharing your hard work on your social media. And हमारा नया-नया बिजनेस है, हम चाहेंगे कि हमारे ढाबे पे और कस्टमर्स आएं और हम आपको फ्री में सर्व करें ताकि आपकी अंग्रेजी एकदम ढिंचक, एकदम र speak flamboyantly and like a gentleman or a gentlelady. Thank you very much. God bless you. Stay rising, stay shining. We enjoyed making this video.
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