Word-Pronunciation-Meaning (WPM a Tuesday Article)

Cactus – kaktus - Any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae

Cage – keyj -   An enclosure

Called – kol - Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

Camera – kamuru - Equipment for taking photographs

Cannon – kanun - A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

Cannot – kanot - Can not

Captain – kaptun - An officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant

Carriage – karij - A railcar where passengers ride

Carpenter – kaarpuntur - A woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects

Cashier – kashir - An employee of a bank who receives and pays out money

Caste – kast - Social status or position conferred by a system based on class

Cast – kast -    Put or send forth

Cot – kot -       A sheath worn to protect a finger

Ceiling – seeling - The overhead upper surface of a covered space

Center – sentur - An area that is approximately central within some larger region

Certain – surtun - Definite but not specified or identified

Chalk – chok -             A soft whitish calcite

Challenge – chalinj -   Take exception to

Character – kariktur - An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

Cheap – cheep - Relatively low in price or charging low prices

Check – chek - Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition

Cheek – cheek - Either side of the face below the eyes

Cheese – cheez - A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk

Chess – ches -             Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed

Children – child - A young person of either sex

Chimney – chimnee - A vertical flue

Chemistry – kemistree - The science of matter

Cholera – koluru - An acute intestinal infection

Circle – surkul - Ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length

Circus – surkus - A travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals

Civics – siviks - The social science of municipal affairs

Clerk – klurk - An employee who performs clerical work

Clever – klevur - Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

Cobbler – koblur - A person who makes or repairs shoes

Collier – kolyur - Someone who works in a coal mine

Collar – kolur - A band that fits around the neck

Collective – kulektiv - Done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

Colour – kulur - A visual attribute of things

Coming – kuming - Of the relatively near future

Commerce – komurs - Transactions

Committee – kumitee - A special group delegated to consider some matter

Commissioner – kumishunur - A government administrator

Company – kumpunee - An institution created to conduct business

Comparative – kumparutiv -   Relating to or based on or involving comparison

Compliment – komplumunt - A remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration

Complement – komplumunt - Something added to complete

Composition – kompuzishun - The spatial property

Competitor – kumpepitur -     The contestant you hope to defeat

Confectioner – kunfekshunur - Someone who makes candies and other sweets

Conqueror – kongkurur - Someone who is victorious by force of arms

Contractor – kontraktur - Someone who contracts to build things

Continuous – kuntinyoous -    Continuing in time or space without interruption

Conveyance – kunveyuns -     Document effecting a property transfer

Coolie – koolee - An offensive name for an unskilled Asian labourer

Copying – kopeeing - An act of copying

Corner – kornur - A place off to the side of an area

Cough – kof - Exhale abruptly

Countries – kuntree - A politically organized body of people

Court – kort - An assembly to conduct judicial business

Cousin – kuzun - The child of your aunt or uncle

Cottage – kotij - A small house with a single story

Cotton – kotun - Soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

Cohered – kowhir - Come or be in close contact with

Cricket – krikit - Leaping insect

Creature – kreechur - A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Curtain – kurtun - Hanging cloth used as a blind

To be continued next week of the same day..........................................Jai

My Experiences With Engineering Graduates! - A Glimpse of "Tell me about Yourself" Question - A Wednesday Article

An aspirant from a remote area of East Coast of Andhra Pradesh attended on an interview many days ago. One of my clients hired 

me to recruit software engineers to work on Java Platform. I could not remember his name.

After a few minutes of interaction, I asked him

“Are you comfortable with English Language?”

It’s a just question to know his language proficiency. But the guy began to give me a complete picture burning in his heart. His face turned into reddish. His breath also slowly began to make sound with temper. His eyes turned into serious play.

“Sir! I came from rural background. There are no any facilities to learn and develop our Language Skills. We need to travel around 20 km daily to reach a town. But there are also no any coaching centers to teach us English Language. We need to come Guntur to learn English, which is far away from our college and to travel 5 hours because we have only two buses of APSRTC morning and evening. So I could not learn English Language”

(He blamed his native place, his college town and the APSRTC – but as per his analysis it is not his fault for his zero performance in language proficiency)

I astonished. He is an MCA aspirant. He completed his Post Graduation in English Medium. He is in this course around Three years.

How did he complete his PG in English Medium?

How did he understand the lessons or teaching in English?

I messed up with these questions. I could not find any reason or answer for my queries. So I decided to ask him the same questions. I asked, and then he answered me,

“I am comfortable with academic subjects as our lecturers teach us in Telugu and we study books in English Language, but we can’t speak in English.

OMG!

The teaching in Telugu is just dubbing Text books by Faculty!

“What’s about your Language Labs sessions? Are your lecturers not teaching you English?”

I asked,

“No sir, they never teach us anything even subjects also. In English Lab our Madam (English Professor) ask us to speak in English. But, nobody comes forward to speak on dais as we have stage fear. Madam explains and asks us to hear some of CDs of Language and that’s it sir. “

(Again blaming faculty)

“That’s why we are poor in English Language.” He added.

The thing is here he has an intention to blame his situations rather than looking into himself. He blamed his native place. He blamed his college teaching patterns. Ok , the reasons  mentioned are oblivious and true. But these reasons may not support to get an opportunity to get an employment. The companies required an aspirant who could be expressive in International Language.

The one thing we need to remember is that – who could be the victim?

In interviews we should not blame the circumstances. The HRs considers these types of candidates as inefficient and negative mentalities.

Everybody knows what happens in rural areas. But these are not the appropriate reasons for lack of International Language and nobody going to hear our voice at the platform of MNC selections. Its our responsibility to make up ourselves to fit at Global Parameters.

And remember that –it’s not the correct answer for the question “Tell me about yourself?”

To be continued next week of the same day............................Jai

Word-Pronunciation-Meaning (WPM a Tuesday Article)

Guys! I post this vocabulary on every Tuesday. 
Go through with these try to frame a meaningful 
sentence and send that composed sentence to me.

The order is: Word-Pronunciation-Meaning

Badminton – badmintun - A game played on a court

Bag – bag - A flexible container with a single opening

Banana – bunanu -Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs

Barber – baar bur - A hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade

Barred – baa r d - Preventing entry or exit or a course of action

Beautiful – byootuful - Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual

Beautifully – byootufu lee -    In a beautiful manner

Beard – bird - The hair growing on the lower part of a man’s face

Because – bikoz - For the reason that; on account of

Bedding – beding - Coverings that are used on a bed

Before – bifor - Earlier in time; previously

Beg – beg -      Call upon in supplication; entreat

Began – begin -Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

Begged – beg - Call upon in supplication; entreat

Beggar – begur - A pauper who lives by begging

Beginning – beginning - The event consisting of the start of something

Behaviour – behiyvyur - Manner of acting or controlling yourself

Believe – bileev - Accept as true; take to be true

Bench – bench - A long seat for more than one person

Between – between - Internal to, involving members of (a group of people)

Bicycle – bIsikul - A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels

Birth – burth -             The time when something begins (especially life)

Biscuit – biskit - Small round bread leavened with baking-powder

Bladder – bladur - A distensible membranous sac

Blood – blud - The fluid (red in vertebrates)

Bottle – botl - A glass or plastic vessel

Bought – bI - Obtain by purchase

Boundary – bawnduree - The line or plane indicating the limit

Brake – breyk - A restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

Bravely – breyvlee -    In a courageous manner

Bread – bred -             Food made from dough of flour

Break – breyk - Terminate

Breakfast – brekfust -             The first meal of the day (usually in the morning)

Breath – breth - The process of taking in and expelling air

Breadth – bredth - The capacity to understand a broad range of topics

Bridge – brij - A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

Broad – brod - Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

Buffaloes – bufulow - Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

Building – bilding -     A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more

Bullocks – buluk -       Young bull

Business – biznis -       A commercial

Butter – butur - An edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk

Button – butun -         A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats

Butcher – buchur -      Kill (animals) usually for food consumption

Budget – bujit - A sum of money allocated for a particular purpose

Bugle – byoogul - A brass instrument without valves

Buy – bI - Obtain by purchase

Bye – bI - You advance to the next round in a tournament

To be continued next Tuesday...................

Knowledge and Wisdom - A Friday Article

 Let us search for the root causes for this disordered generation. Here I discuss the contribution of education sector in this disorder life of a student. Let me tell you the real reason behind these adverse mentalities, since I believe that we can create solution for every problem which is created but not generated when we search for root reasons. The education of our times is not generated but it is created!

The Glass Curtain effect – The wrong route of Education

The contemporary schools give priority only to teach lessons of the subject exclusively extracted from the prescribed text book. Apart from the topic the students require some application level programme of the subject. The government schools have well qualified teachers who teach to the student scientifically with absolute teaching methodologies. The problem with the government schools is that lack of interest of the teachers due to the lack of strength. This is due to the modern Indian parents habituated to join their kids in glass curtain schools as the academies show high infrastructure and a world of myth.

The parents have a wrong concept about schools. They believe in  hi-fi schools. It’s obvious; the high demand of fee from private schools is due to high packages of talented teachers. The problem starts here itself. The schools charge high fee but they don’t hire qualified and talented teachers. Because the management of School or college education accumulates money in banks. (They already know that their school never exists in future). That is why our schools life span is only three years. Within these three years of span they create worthless and confused generations.

So they pay low package for low standard  teachers. The demand for high standards and talented teachers has been vanished (This is not created Unemployment issue in India as talented survive anywhere of the world due to Globalization). Let me make you clear scribe regarding this talent – today the academies have to look for Global Standards as MNCs in India rapidly increasing. It emerged the corporate culture in India.

Once I have attended on an Assistant Professors Recruitment which held in Vijayawada, in a legendary Academy. Many aspirants attended the recruitment.

I have seen freshers and senior most aspirants. Some of them already have done Doctorate Degrees. I have seen one of the aspirants profile as we both became close friends. He has a great talent in Physical Sciences, who is a Doctorate Graduate. He has teaching experience of eight years in Physics for Post Graduates.

I too saw a lady who is a kid, no experience and she has done her post Graduation in Physics. My Doctorate friend was called inside of the Interview Chamber. After a long time he came back to me with down hearted. He is not got selected. The lady with no experience got selected at the package of Rs 8000 per month. (Later she told me that she joined their only for time pass and experience – she is very straight, but she doesn’t know how to hide her feelings of professionalism) I astonished. This is really a hell for the aspirants. Even she could not speak at least few minutes in English Language. Whereas the academy placed a great cutout at the center of the city – Globalism speaks!

How Globalism speaks with a teacher who speaks only local language, possessed local knowledge, have a frizzed and narrow mind?

A drama of Education for bux! – And the Acting Characters.

The private Educational Organizations prepare strategic plan of campaign. They create many channels in the mission. The main sources are different from school to college. Here I mention the strategic plans of Schools and Colleges separately for the convenience of my mind (as I always get great headache when I think about these strategic plans).

For Schools                                           For Tech and Non-Tech Colleges

PROs                                                     Infrastructure

Rankings                                                Soft Skills

Infrastructure                                         Campus Placements

E-Techno Concept                                Tech-Fests.

Spoken English                                      Experienced Faculty

PRO – Public Relations Officer. His main objective is to do lips labor. He doesn’t know even about the academy which he promotes. The academies don’t have visions and goals (They write on banners some visions which were copied from western universities and colleges). They have only one vision of earning money. This PRO drags parents attention by offering them delicious discounts in the tuition fee. He declares a scheme which based on previous years marks (No consideration of Character of a student). The more marks a student gets in common examination the less fee will be charged by Educational Institutions.

To be continued on the same day of the next week....................Jai

My Experiences With Engineering Graduates! - A Glimpse of "Tell me about Yourself" Question - A Wednesday Article

She pulled her face with a great confusion! She might have understood my stress on the point at the moment ‘very much’

I have already decided not to take her in. She had made a great effort with confidence; unfortunately she doesn’t have a profile of Professionalism.

One of the aspirants, she was from Hyderabad, and she had a face of serious. I bet no man like to speak to that lady! I don’t understand, what makes these ladies so serious.

“………………….my hobbies are watching TV and Gardening...” she answered for my question of Tell me about yourself. It is the last sentence of her whole explanation. Almost she has given me a great biography. I came to know her favorite uncles, her father’s interesting, about her brothers and their talent, her financial condition and about her native place.

(Actually this is nonsense and unnecessary for me)

I tried to keep hiding my feelings.

Suzi is beside me. She understood my condition and she want to stop the lady. At this moment Suzi took the opportunity and asked her,

“Wait…..wait – what do you do exactly in Gardening? I mean……. (Suzi pronounces this word of I mean very frequently) what kind of plants and flowers available in your Garden?”

The lady explained that she likes to plant different spices of Rose plant and also, she loves Mari Gold plants too…… while she was explaining her dreams of Gardening, Suzi interrupted her, and asked a question….

“What do you mean by Raised Bed Gardening?” with a great expression! (Suzi has done a Diploma Course in Gardening)

The lady doesn’t know this!

God save her.

“I don’t know Mam” She answered, (I could understand the core honesty of her words, but I could not support her informality. She actually wants to say.  “I am sorry mam! I don’t know that.”

Then Suzi again asked her “Acha! (Well) Explain me pruning plants?

This time I could not see the lady’s face, so I began to see her resume. 

I heard nothing from her. I just raised my face to know what happened in meantime.

Exactly at the same moment she answered with a sad smile (hesitatingly)

“I don’t know Mam!”

I could not dare to see Suzi’s face.

But I heard,

“Then tell me what do you know about Gardening?” Suzi asked.

Almost for a few minutes no sound enchanted in the Centralized AC room.

“Actually I grow a little plant in my verandah…….its rose plant in a small clay pot. So I said Gardening is my hobby………………….”

I am really sorry for the lady.

BLOOPER!

To be continued next week of the same day...............Jai

Word-Pronunciation-Meaning (WPM a Tuesday Article)

Guys! I post this vocabulary on every Tuesday. 
Go through with these try to frame a meaningful 
sentence and send that composed sentence to me.

The order is: Word-Pronunciation-Meaning

Absent – absunt - Not being in a specified place

Accept – aksept - Consider or hold as true

Accident – aksidunt -             An unfortunate mishap

Actor – aktu(r) - A theatrical performer

Actress – aktris - A female actor

Address – a’dres - The place where a person or organization can be found

Advice – ad’vIs - A proposal for an appropriate course of action

Advise – ad’vIz - Give advice to

Advocate – advukeyt - Push for something

Admitted – ud’mit - Declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of

Allotted – ulotud - Given as a task

Ardour – aadu(r) - A feeling of strong eagerness

Aeroplane – ehru pleyn - An aircraft

Affectionately – ufekshunutlee - With affection

Affirmative – ufurmutiv - Affirming or giving assent

Again – ugeyn - Another time, repeating

Algebra – aljubru - The mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations

Arithmetic – urithmu tik - The branch of pure mathematics

Assertive – usurtiv - Aggressively self-assured

Attacked – utak - Launch an attack or assault on

Attendance – utenduns - The act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)

Attempt – utempt - Make an effort or attempt

August – ogust - Of or befitting a lord

Aunt – ant - The sister of your father or mother

Autumn – otum - The season when the leaves fall from the trees

Author – othu(r) - Writes professionally (for pay)

Awful – oful -             Exceptionally bad or displeasing

Almost – olmowst - Slightly short of or not quite accomplished;

Already – olredee - Prior to a specified or implied time

All right – ol rIt - An expression of agreement

Altogether – oltu gethu(r) - To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent

Analyse – anu’lIz - Consider in detail and subject to an analysis

Analysis – unalusis - An investigation of the component parts of a whole

Ancient – eynshunt - Belonging to times long past

Angry – anggree - Feeling or showing anger

Area – ehreeu - A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary

Annual – any(oo)ul -Completing its life cycle within a year

Answer – ansur - React verbally

Application – apli key shun - The act of bringing something to bear;

Appeared – upir - Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

Appeal – upeel - Earnest or urgent request

Assure – ushur - Make certain of

Asset – asset - A useful or valuable quality

To be continued next Tuesday………

Different Personalities

Guys I give some list of personalities along with pronunciation path. Let me see around whether useful for you guys! If you get any queries, meet me on electronic mail.

Use these while you speak something about personalities. This will appeal your scholastic attitude!

Different Personalities

1.      Word:                          Egoist

Pronunciation:             ee-gow-ist

Meaning: One who believes in self advancement.

2.      Word:                          Egotist

Pronunciation:             ee-gu-tist

Meaning: One who always talks about accomplishments.

3.      Word:                          Altruist

Pronunciation:             al-troo-ist

Meaning: One who is interested in the welfare of others.

4.      Word:                          Introvert

Pronunciation:             in-tru, vurt

Meaning: One who turns thoughts inwards.

5.      Word:                          Extrovert

Pronunciation:             ek-stru, vurt

Meaning: One who turns thoughts outwards.

6.      Word:                          Ambivert

Pronunciation:             am-bi, vurt

Meaning: One who turns thoughts inwards and outwards.

7.      Word:                          Misanthrope

Pronunciation:             mi-s(u)n, throwp

Meaning: One who hates people

8.      Word:                          Misogynist

Pronunciation:             miso-ju-nist

Meaning: One who hates women

9.      Word:                          Misogamist

Pronunciation:             miso-gu-mist

Meaning: One who hates marriage

10.  Word:                          Ascetic

Pronunciation:             u’se-tik

Meaning: One who does not pursue pleasures of flesh

Knowledge and Wisdom - A Friday Article

It’s really a hard time for me to educate these innocent aspirants of professional graduates. They have a circle which was formed and shaped by their kitten school outdated soooo called masters/Gurus (these people called SIR by students due to imperialism. I am afraid of these imperialism shadows, still in the roots of Indian culture especially in education system). The soo called sirs and student never use their brain to think since we have n number of guides published by cheap marketing publishers with great designs on cover page in the markets to gain only marks in the examinations, not the brains. Our up growing people habituated to buy these books and also became dependant along with soo called masters. The sirs teach only subject in the prescribed words of text books and never go apart from that as they concerned it as illegal and integrity issue. They teach in nontraditional pattern. These kids became frizzed like a cool winter in Kashmir Lake because they never get an opportunity to think and analyze themselves. They grow up with a great negative motive that everybody on the earth has taken birth to cheat each other; this is due to privatization of education and non-reformation of Government teaching pattern in India. When I enter into class, they stare at me. They think that I came to cheat them! (As many outsourcing educational institutions already cheated them along with their school/college). They never give their ears to me. They scan me with their looks. The educational institutions speak about Global parameters and never maintain the global attitude.

Education is business here!

Time Table of a student

Morning 7 to evening 8:30 they engaged with reading and writing. A day starts with study and ends with study. I didn’t see any kind of recreation or self management of time here. Parents and teachers never give them time to think and ink or to play.
Let me scribe you a day life of a student who goes to private school: (provided by a student who study in local private English medium school)


Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru told that the country’s destination was in the class room. Teachers should educate students. Education not in the sense of recitation. It is that – where our students get enlightenment of life and knowledge, where our students know the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

Many years ago Tagore made a great prayer to God:

Rabindranath Tagore

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”

This is Tagore’s prayer! Still echoing in the streets of our villages.

The objective of education is to know the difference between knowledge and wisdom!

Readers! I will post the continuation of this writing on the same day of the next week.