Episode 3: Shashi Tharoor takes a quiz.

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Episode 3 of the Shashi Tharoor interview is finally here! This is the episode in which The English Nut gives Shashi Tharoor a quiz. Find out how Dr Tharoor fares on it.
Many have interviewed Dr Tharoor on the subject of English, but this conversation is special.
I'm The English Nut and I am as obsessed with the language as Dr Tharoor - which makes for a witty conversation indeed. One that is chock-full of observations about English. You can watch it for the learnings, or simply enjoy the banter.
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The questions on the quiz are tough -- and unfair at times. Does Dr Tharoor still manage to sail through it?
In case you are new to The English Nut, I create weekly videos on the nuances of English. My objective is to introduce people to the finer points of the language while keeping them entertained.
English is nuts. And I’m nuts about English.
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Core team on the Shashi Tharoor project: Priyank Bengali, Jay Morzaria
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@guruprasad1358 Год назад

Mr.Shashi Tharoor has changed the way of thinking and speaking of a whole generation to be honest. 😊

@anishaxd Год назад

"why can't you just say day before yesterday" HAHAHA look whose asking😂

@corrupted_conscience Год назад

Still he's passionate about learning new words. Exchange was as sweet as Bengali sweets.

@ravisarjapur Год назад

Both are my favourite men . It is a feast to watch when you both join together like this . Love you both .

@srikanths5178 Год назад

Except for valetudinarian, neologism, and serendipity, I flunked every question. Contrary to popular belief, it is usually words like half-pace that give problems, while longer words are easy to remember. Shashi is spot on when he says reading was the only option those days, in the absence of internet and social media. I picked up several words including rodomontade and farrago from "Reader's Digest" which was in circulation those days and also from noted columnists and humorists like Art Buchwald, Jug Suraiya etc. An interesting episode overall.

@tyajn1 Год назад

Hi can you please tell if the quickest process to enhance vocabulary is reading books only??

@srikanths5178 Год назад

@@tyajn1 It doesn't necessarily have to be books, it could be newspapers, magazines etc. in any format you prefer. Reader's Digest magazine used to have a word quiz section from where I learned several words. Roget's Thesaurus would be of great help too. Of course, reading is the best and the most natural way to improve vocabulary, according to many experts.

@sanchari.c Год назад

What a wonderful video. And truly a treat to listen to two people passionate about a language talk about interesting words and where they came from. Quizzing Dr. Tharoor on social media lingo was a fun idea, but this is so much better! Learnt so much as well. Fantastic content!

@Jay-pl3wk Год назад

Thank you for creating such content! It tickles my brain 🧠

@kreativepulp8760 Год назад

Is that a Shakespearean expression? 😊

@Jay-pl3wk Год назад

@@kreativepulp8760 haha! I wish I knew 🙈

@kreativepulp8760 Год назад

@@Jay-pl3wk Sounds like a question for Dr. Tharoor's next session. 😁

@kajaldey6561 Год назад

Well i believe the fact that the person knows how to respect Tharoor sir.. my ultimate idol of respect and worship... 😊

@abhijl Год назад

Earliest known use of the phrase "Love is blind" is by Chaucer in Canterbury Tales in the late 14th century. Just watched this trivia featured in a Netflix series "The Chair".

@anjalicathrine2677 Год назад

Not a dull moment in those 12 mins … thank you 🙏🏻 for this lovely episode

@arkadebarman3780 Год назад

The conversation between these two great English nuts is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

@Aditya-vu4ey Год назад

I couldn't resist smiling and chuckling all through! 😂❤.. It's always a super warm feeling to watch you cool folks! ❤😻

@kanishksharma4519 Год назад

I absolutely love when Sumanto comes up with Dr. Shashi Tharoor. It's always a pleasure watching them both chat, laugh, grin, joke in a conversation. Thanks Sumanto, i wish you come up with more such videos with Dr. Tharoor. Love watching your videos!

@anandarao.k.g3349 Год назад

As always a wonderful episode, introducing us to some more very interstingly few more new words. Huge appreciation to both the English Nuts and Dr.Shashi Tharoor.

@surajrajbongshi6457 Год назад

I can understand you must be disappointed with the less view but trust me what you put out is pure “Gold” so keep uploading. Wish you a humongous success ❤

@saylibirare3920 Год назад

The segment from 4:24 to 4:31 was so expressive and unusual. You both seemed like kids🤭

@simpletechbyabhinav6235 Год назад

I wonder what his opinion is on people who incorrectly call the letters ABCD alphabets. Those are letters! The word "alphabet" refers to the whole thing abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. That's like calling rooms within a house "houses". I only discovered this year that some people say "alphabets", they mean "letters of the alphabet". If I knew earlier or if people stopped making this mistake, that would have spared me so much confusion when learning Hindi.

@niteshm6 5 месяцев назад

How many Alphabets are in English language?

@simpletechbyabhinav6235 5 месяцев назад

@@niteshm6 An alphabet is "set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, used to represent the basic sounds of a language". So in English, there is 1 alphabet with 26 letters in it. Not 26 "alphabets". Japanese has 2 alphabets*, and a set of pictograms called Kanji. D is the fourth letter of the alphabet, not the fourth alphabet. Edit: *Technically they're syllabaries (for those who want to be nit-picky) and not alphabets because each letter represents a syllable rather than a sound

@niteshm6 5 месяцев назад

@@simpletechbyabhinav6235 Japanese have 2 Alphabets? For a single language or two different languages?

@simpletechbyabhinav6235 5 месяцев назад

@@niteshm6 Yes for 1 language. Actually, technically they're syllabaries (for those who want to be nit-picky) and not alphabets because each letter represents a syllable rather than a sound. This is why people have a hard time learning Japanese. Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) also uses two different writing systems, but people generally use 1 or the other, unlike Japanese, which simultaneously uses Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. From Wikipedia: "The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalised Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis. Almost all written Japanese sentences contain a mixture of kanji and kana. Because of this mixture of scripts, in addition to a large inventory of kanji characters, the Japanese writing system is considered to be one of the most complicated currently in use."

@niteshm6 5 месяцев назад

@@simpletechbyabhinav6235 Good information. I thought all languages have only one alphabet.

@narutoli394 Год назад

Brilliant!!! I enjoyed this video so much.. Thank you for this content...

@manoharmalani1696 Год назад

Such an elegant communicator.

@ShabbirAhmed1995 Год назад

Wow! Mr Tharoor came again on your show!!! We want more of these Mr Nut!!

@TheEnglishNut Год назад

Find out how much Shashi Tharoor scores on the English Nut quiz. You can't miss this one! :)

@neoxz_10 Год назад

Didn't u already upload this?

@piyushjadhav2278 Год назад

Read theory app is great to read according to ur level our sir told

@piyushjadhav2278 Год назад

Sorry website

@arindambhattacharyya Год назад

Please bring Shuhel Seth

@ashleystinyworld3288 Год назад

I waited for this since a long time thanx English nut❤😊😊

@Haractc Год назад

Very enriching! Loved it.

@someRandomNameHere Год назад

I watch RU-vid for this kind of content. Thank you English Nut.

@moony728 Год назад

Extremely enriching experience.❤

@roopalivs6782 Год назад

Omg 🙆🏽 that was such an interestingly entertaining episode. Keep rocking 👍🏾 ✔️ 💯 ✌🏾

@aqibmajeed2620 Год назад

Wow, another fragment of the interview!❤

@ankitasingh6382 Год назад

This was so good! Loved it.❤️

@srinivasnyayapathi9083 Год назад

Absolutely delightful

@vikrantchouhan9908 Год назад

An absolute treat for the lexophiles!! Keep going.

@kasturiswami784 Год назад

I love serendipity,learned it from churchils book long time back.

@kaustubhchakrabarti2400 Год назад

Thank you so much. Love your work ❤

@balajiprasath4760 Год назад

Lovely conversation. Enjoyed the video very much. Way to go..

@jhalakgupta9269 3 месяца назад

WORDS BECOME EXPENSIVE WHEN MR. SHAHSHI THAROOR USE IT ❤❤

@bangtanarmyot07 2 месяца назад

When i heard the word serendipity, it reminded me of the song 'serendipity' by BTS 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

@Sudden570 Год назад

Well done gentlemen, I loved the exchange! :-)

@Tan_May_ Год назад

I wonder how to describe one of my friend with a single word due to her approach of course.. Finally I've found it today. Thanks a ton to Sumanta Da & Tharoor Sir for introducing us with 'Valetudinarian'...😁😁

@ParitoshTripathiOfficial Год назад

One recommendation for you, The English Nut to change the thumbnail a bit so that it looks new or maybe add a 🆕 batch on corner. I misunderstood it for the old episode 2 and ignored it for 11 days despite it being shown many times in my RU-vid recommendations feed.

@TheEnglishNut Год назад

I should have done that.

@bhartigoel2784 Год назад

Beautiful video!

@kiransingh3219 Год назад

Enjoyed it thoroughly

@furqansaad8475 Год назад

Love to see the Shashi sir with you

@5karmax Год назад

Immensely gratified

@mariafatimapais7499 Год назад

Very interesting. Learnt a few new words

@Moodywhoo Год назад

I want more of these please 😭😭

@namasivayamnadarajan6712 Год назад

Please discuss with Tharoor ji on the following two phrases: 1. In terms of - I think it’s misused often where about, regarding, as regards etc would do. 2. As to - here too I feel this is is used where it’s not required.

@koustuvapubandyopadhyay1850 Год назад

LOVELY SESSION !!

@kshanthalareddy1000 Год назад

It's such an interesting ...

@kasturiswami784 Год назад

Enjoyed it!

@krishnaagarwal5163 8 месяцев назад

Wonderful and enjoyable video. I am no expert of English; studied the language up to 12th grade only. But I happen to know (or so I think) one word used by Mr. Tharoor - cattle-class. I suppose it means the economy class of the airplane travel. That was the sense when I heard it being used by a British friend.

@rajsolanki8459 Год назад

Laudable initiative

@WME460 Год назад

Tharoor is like the water Bruce Lee mentioned... he fits in everywhere.

@supersmart671 Год назад

You should do an episode on the impact of the English Bible on English literature

@mailmokena 11 месяцев назад

Very interesting session 👍

@kshanthalareddy1000 Год назад

Please continue the episodes

@sarthakkharade7112 Год назад

two english nuts conversing is such a pleasure to the listeners' ears❤️

@neera01 Год назад

Super duper!!

@naseemfirdaus1789 Год назад

Loved it♥️❤️💜

@farooqakhtarahmed Год назад

These two nuts never disappoint.... Wait, that came out wrong!!!

@Drwackymac Год назад

🤣🤣🤣

@gaunikarora5157 Год назад

Genius Guy

@sreehari3127 10 месяцев назад

1:30 Tharoor is a village in Palakkad, Kerala.

@hailahaiela 4 месяца назад

I want more ❤

@snehasispal833 Год назад

Why can't we have your videos more often?

@Shriv99996 Год назад

Hahahaha..shashi ji...🎉🎉🎉🥰

@JackSparrow-rp6td Год назад

Why this tease? Can't you upload the full episode? I have waited for this part and Ruskin Bond's for more than six months I suppose. But really fascinating to see the English Nut taking on the Big Dady of English Nut. One feedback if you want to take it. Well I've said it before as well that please disable mandatory subtitles and make them optional. The subtitles distract.

@vaibhavjain2969 Год назад

Lots of love

@Shriv99996 Год назад

Interesting ...good show..

@Shriv99996 Год назад

🥰

@kkjune02 Год назад

were all the dr. tharoor episodes filmed in 2020? or is the setup/his clothing the same all the time

@tarhampa2303 Месяц назад

Indian version of Oxford dictionary.... ❤❤❤🎉

@RishabhJha-pd5jq 9 месяцев назад

He is truly genius

@zhayengshiu2031 Год назад

Read, read and read.

@Sikho_With_Samir Год назад

If I wanna choose Tharoor or an Oxford dictionary, I'll choose the former.😀 I read his books and have learnt many new English words. One day, I'll meet you, Sir and cwtch you for sure. 😊

@ash1439 3 месяца назад

I declare my self as a tharoorian from now

@soumyasaha8665 Год назад

I’d like to have one of those English Nut t-shirts. Possible?

@urmila16 9 месяцев назад

De light ful. ☺️

@karthikks6822 Год назад

Caution: these stunts are performed by professions don't try this in your exams 😂😂

@Exposia Год назад

Probability : To take cautions : if you will try this in exam, may be cautiously beaten by Tharoor itself if found wrong.

@sharmapushpa1880 Год назад

Ha or nhi to kya jo check karega agar use samaj hi nhi aaya to wo to number kaat dega phir hum to dekhte reh jayenge😂😂

@sajidanawaz6437 Год назад

Ha ha exactly

@Asavsmrk 10 месяцев назад

@@sharmapushpa1880 where are you from can I know

@sharmapushpa1880 10 месяцев назад

@@Asavsmrk kyu par 😂

@vasqora Год назад

1:18 "its just a made up word" well which word isnt xD

@user-jt1fv3cm7h 4 месяца назад

The eminent mp of Indian parliament ❤❤❤

@RameshSingh-sw5eb 11 месяцев назад

The English Nut and Hindi Blot on it !

@pintuvijayan2724 Год назад

👌👍from Kollam, kerala

@niloufermirza5018 11 месяцев назад

👍👍👍

@advaysri2006 Год назад

What does he mean when he says she surprise everyone by popping it 3.29

@TheEnglishNut Год назад

'Popping it' is an informal way of saying 'dying'.

@advaysri2006 Год назад

@@TheEnglishNut oh always learning something new and you replied thanks !

@soumyasaha8665 Год назад

Regarding “Brontophobia”, I’ve another word , “Ceraunophobia”; which is what I knew as fear of thunder. Was I wrong?

@TheEnglishNut Год назад

You're right. The two words have similar meanings.

@AkashDas-xo2er Год назад

😊😊😊😊😊😊

@allenaventh6249 Год назад

😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🏻

@vasupradhaananth7168 Год назад

Now, I have a different thing to say here, or rather, ask...The English Nut t shirt. Is it available in the market for us, too? I would love to have one

@TheEnglishNut Год назад

Not at the moment. Hopefully later.

@vasupradhaananth7168 Год назад

@@TheEnglishNut Thank you! Hope the book (the one you are writing)happens soon as well🙂🙂...look forward to possessing both

@anicekurian5256 Год назад

Thank you so much Englishnut❤✨🙏

@rishabhkar1244 Год назад

can i meet the english nut

@raj_pirjainia 11 месяцев назад

Shashi knows English more then English itself

@jaymorzaria Год назад

This is madness.

@asokanponnusamy Год назад

I am just a bolt

@TedoR2011 Год назад

Big daddy 😅

@Shriv99996 Год назад

Share with us the money u get once u reach 10k..dude...😂😂😂😂😂..all have gone nuts...😂😂

@prasadpushkar3191 Год назад

Such Rich British English accent! Wonderful...but what's hypocritical is you go off to London and rant against them! While you still speak a good old Londoner English accent! That's particularly strange!