Indian Accent Listening Practice / Indian accent listening

[Music] all right so today we have nilam with us and we are going to have a class with nilam and she is going to speak indan

action like she is from India uh nilam is a professor in a prestigious college called Prestige Institute of Management from India and uh we are going to have a

small talk with nilam so nilam how are you today I'm thank you so much sir good evening and I'm absolutely fine sir thank you so much for giving me this opportunity it's

really nice to have you in our class and uh thank you so much for taking out some time so uh we are going to have the class I'm going to share uh my screen with you and we are going to practice

some English with you all right yes so let me share uh the screen and we just begin with it uh here okay so let me

share my screen with you now okay so look at these two pictures and try to say what these two pictures are talking about one by one you need to describe

these two pictures and uh we'll see how you come up with the ideas uh so the second picture is little bit

um U tough for me but I'll try my level best to do the Justice would like to start with the first picture sir you mean for the left hand side picture first yes sure you can go ahead with it

okay thank you so much sir for giving me this opportunity and as I can see in the picture that uh the person is walking on one very thin line it is

usually uh Rod you know he's having a rod and on the left part of his Rod there is a heart and on the right side of the of his hand is the

brain uh so the person is walking through the Rope very gently and he is very conscious and apart from it he is also making the balance m in between the heart and the

brain so what I can infer from this picture is that it is very important to have the balance of your mind and the Brain MH you can't be IMM

uh you know while living your life and you cannot be so much practical you need to have a balance of the same for example sir if you take the

decisions of your life on the basis of an emotion it is going to give you um bad result or the consequences may not be the right and if you keep taking the

decisions on the basis of your brain and your own selfish motives or uh according to your own perception then obviously you are doing the Injustice with the

people also as we are living in a society we are comp we are having our Clos in acenes we are surrounded by our loved ones so we should take care of

their own their feelings their um their uh you know their interest as well and um you know there are some people are while they are going uh

through their life they choose the emotions for example sir I also know a lot of talented professionals who could work in the multinational companies can stay away in the Metro such as the

Bangalore or Mumbai but they decided to stay with their own family because they are the only son of their parents and they want to take care of their family in India it is very common to make the

decisions on the basis of an emotions and that's why we see that sometime for the parents will the people marry an appropriate guy which later on they

regret on the other hand we can uh you know there can be the weite as well there are the people who just leave their parents their friends acenes and other people in order to pursue their

dream their career and even if they become the successful they find a kind of an emptiness in their life so uh s it is truly and rightly said that it is

important to have a balance all right now you can go for the second picture sir as I can see that U you know there is

a there is a um door and there is a long queue of the people and what I can infer from this is

that the people are are standing in a queue and they are going um inside the inside the door and

as I can see that there is a road which is curve in nature it is not a straight straight road it is a Curve

Road what I can infer is uh from this picture although it is very difficult for me to understand this picture um what I can uh understand from this picture is that the road of the life is

never easy it is never the straightforward there are the various subs and the towns and there are the times when you have to turn uh in accordance with the situation so the

road is never smooth it is not going to be smooth so there is a person who is having a kind kind of big knife in his hand and he is um he is um you know by

his hand movement uh he can say that instead of uh you know standing in a queue you can go by this um by this road but the road

is again blocked as there are the pile of the brisk which are taken care of and Sir what I can infer from this picture is that perhaps this person is

saying that do not enter this door as you may not be able to return back as you can enter into the road but there is no way of returning out of the road as

we can see that uh on the right hand side the pile of the brisk are there so it is you can enter into the road but uh

you will not get the uh road to get depart and sometime uh in the life it also happen that you enter into the things without thinking that what will

be its consequence whether you will be able to um whether you will be able to come out of it we just enter into the things sometime out of ignorance uh but it is rightly said to

before taking any decision or without before um you know starting anything you have to keep the consequence in your mind so that what I can understand all right very well said you described these

two pictures really nicely and um as you said for the first picture like there is a person who's walking through a small line it's a kind of row where he's

balancing a heart heart and brain as we know like heart and brain these are really very important part of our body and we see like it's really difficult to make a balance between our body our

heart and brain um heart is known as like a sensitive part of our body and brain is a calculative element like all the

decisions we take where we need to go for the calculation part we need to take the help of our brain on the other hand we talk about the heart it takes like all the sensitive things and we take we

make our decisions from a by a heart so very nice like it's really difficult to make a balance but the person is do and if somebody can make a balance between his heart and brain then he may uh

adjust with all the situations or all the complications arise in his slide moving forward to the second picture on the right hand side we see like uh there are two roads to reach a destination one

is a curved Road another one is a straight road many people they are in the queue and there is a small door where people are going through and we see uh they're going towards the curved

Road and a boy on the other hand he is showing the people that there is another road which is a straight one you can go by this but there is a huddle in the beginning like if you want to go with

the straight way you need to First cross this uh wall which is made of bricks so what we can infer from this picture is

um maybe sometimes the way is difficult in the beginning but after that it becomes really very easy for us so we should not enter into something because it seems to be very easy no sometimes we

have something which seems to be difficult in the beginning but later on it becomes really very easy and it makes your destination really very easier so that's what we can understand from this picture you said really nice n and with

this we are moving for the next part of our class and that's a onetoone discussion topic so uh let me share my screen again with you and this time

we'll be talking about a new topic and uh let me see what topic we can discuss about all right the topic we are

going to talk about would be uh nature WIS technology okay so yes uh let me brief you with something like nature it means the

natural things we have and uh technology is something like now one thing we have added into our life that's technology we are using the smartphone we have uh Television Internet AI technology cgbd

and jam there are many things we use nowadays and that makes our life become more easier along with this nature itself is is a remedy for many things so this is what we are going to discuss in

this session the topic is nature WIS technology and we have five questions to be discussed on so the first question for you I'm going to ask is what ways does technology enhance our interactions with

nature uh thank you so much sir for giving me this opportunity and in my opinion technology really enhance our interaction with the nature for example sir if the technology is not available

to us or if the technology were not available to the human being how could we go and dig out the core of the nature

it is out of the technology only that we know that how deep are our oceans is you know as per the scientist um you know

they just dig out into the Pacific Ocean and they were able to know and actually they are not able to calculate the

entire you know I would say the W width and the other part but um they just I think go down to the 1 kilometer deep

inside the ocean apart from it due to the technology it we uh we know about the nature very well so yeah how does

excessive Reliance on technology affect our connection to the natural world nowadays like we are having a dependency or technology and we have a complete Reliance over the technology so how does

it affect our connections with the natural world uh yes sir you absolutely right sir as you mentioned that our excessive Reliance on the technology really affect

our connection to the natural world uh sir uh I would like to take my own example only today only I realized that I'm at to my phone and I'm checking

my phone every now and by then even if there is no notification I'm still using the my phone MH and you know whenever uh you know today I was not feeling well

and I was feeling very drowsy so I just go and take a walk in one Garden which is near my place only and once I I'll

come from this uh nature natural place I felt that the trees are talking to me they are making me the sunset is making the sunset is

giving me the warmth which I never felt and all the confusion sedation and the problems that I had in my mind because I was stuck at my work today has been

answered you know so uh technology is absolutely affecting us for example sir if I'll take the example of the mobile addiction only you felt that it is

giving you the pleasure but you are not but you are unaware of the fact that uh it is taking a lot of things from you for example you are feeling distracted um you know you are giving

your destiny in the hand of a technology and today that's why sir I uninstall I uninstall various applications I uninstall Instagram which the people think that they are the need but they

are not the need and I commit to myself that I will limit the usage of Facebook and I will stop watching the WhatsApp status of the other people because what the other people are doing in their

personal Liv is none of my job wow that's super I mean it's extremely nice you said all right so we are moving towards the next question what are some

benefits of spending time with nature nature compared to relying on technology for entertainment uh sir I would like to

quote one uh one very famous quote given by Swami vivand and in his words uh all all the knowledge that you

require is inside you it is not outside uh so that's what I said uh I felt that when you feel connected to the

nature you come across your own nature for example while I was walking through the garden I felt that I my brother did not

give me the birth to remain Ani anxious person I'm here to achieve the ultimate purpose of my life which is to achieve

the best education to earn livelihood and to feel secure why I am focusing on the things which does not matter to me

so according to me sir the nature introduce yourself to yourself you know it is a journey from compulsory to compulsory and Sir uh you know when I

come in the when I come across the nature whenever I see the bird whenever I see the plant plant never make any effort to grow you know the the bird

never feel anxious about the fact that whether they will get their food or not everything is automatic in the nature same

as so uh nature gives me the hope and apart from it it uh you know it shows the wonderful creation of the God and

the God has created all this thing for us so it gives me a sense

of accomplishment sir which is rare okay that's great so can technology be used to address environmental

challenges and promote sustainability uh yes sir I uh I believe that a technology can be used to address

the environmental challenges and promote sustainability even I would like to urge the scientist also to work in this regard for example sir if you talk about the sea water or an ocean water

obviously we can't drink it because it is salign in nature so can we develop some technology that can transform this salign water into the drinkable

water uh it would be the biggest achievement of the 21st century if we would be able to create the same apart from it sir if you talk about the Bangalore Bangalore is an Hightech

City it is a very famous city of the India and currently 25 million people are residing in the Bangalore so in the 1960s there were the

250 lak sir and today the number of the lack reduced to the 50 nature in numbers it's much bigger the people who are yeah um if you talk about the Richer class or

the Elite Class they they purchase the land near the lack and they are living very well but sir according to the scientist you you know what happened

that before the apartments were made whenever the rain come it the water being you know absorbed by the soil itself but now it is not the case and

now all the environmentalist are having an assumption that within four to five years the City Bangalore will get vanished yeah this is a major assumption

sir by the 2015 Mumbai is going to be elap so it is really very high time that the

technology should be used for a better reason inspire you know in a state of thinking that oh we can create this weapon oh we can become a nuclear weapon so it is really very high time that we

should look on this matter so adding value to this point only I would like to take the example of the namami gang yosa namami gang sche which was launched by

honorable honorable prime minister Mr Narendra Modi G so it is important to clean the water that we have and we are required to create the awareness among the people

that this Mother Earth Is Ours have to take the personal responsibility of the S and Sir once we take care of the basics then obviously it will it is going to create the

sustainability the planet is not only of us it is it belongs to everyone whether it is lizard mouse snake or whether it is even a small insect you know Mother

Earth is everyone's okay fantastic I mean uh the examples you quoted on and uh the references you have given are really nice so with this we are moving forward

the next part next question how can we strike a balance between embracing technology and preserving the beauty and integrity of nature

okay uh so according to me the only way to strike a balance is [Music] to is to limit our

wishes you know uh we have to limit the usage of the plastic we have to limit the things that we really don't require and we are required to limit our

materialistic wishes only and according to me sir only after that we will be able to strike a balance between the technology and the beauty because it is

not only the responsibility of the policy maker or the technologist or the scientist to create the new invention and to work for the mankind it is the responsibility of each one of us and if

we are not aware then obviously sir the technology is not going to give us the result that we require uh for example sir um there is a uh there is a

technology which is working in my Municipal Corporation and what is what does it make sir uh the people of my

city are instructed to keep all the garbage in the two dust bins the first one is the dry gabbage and the second one is the weight gabage garbage sorry

and what happen sir uh whenever the municipal Corporation come they just accumulate all the garbage from

everyone's house and they converted this garbage into uh the something uh very uh something some sub substances which can

improve the fertility of a soil sir here we are using the technology to convert the garbage into the soil fertility substance but until

and unless we make an initiative uh to segregate the garbage according to Mr nothing is possible so

we have to limit our resources and apart from it sir we have to come over our own uh needs sir we really

don't need 365 dresses for every day uh sir everyone wants to look beautiful and that's why we are

purchasing the things we don't need sir even one dress you know the preparation of an one dress or a manufacturing of an

one dress or a one meter cloth requires uh tons of water and we never I mean until and unless this come

in my mind I never had think that oh is this happening that the one meter of the cloth you know when I just go and purchase in the shop for the 100 rupees

in the Indian currency for the manufacturing of that dress you know tons of the water is used right sir even there are the so many people who ate a

nonv I'm I'm not in against of the nonv sir but could you imagine that one in any you know Festival one Buffalo mhm is

you know used for making the food hundreds of the liter water is used to just clean that dead

buffalo to fre her to wash her lever and intestines and the other things sir according to me sir we are required to we must focus on this thing if we want

to create a balance and if we want to face the circumstances and it's fine sir it is our choice sir if you want the development at the cost of the Mother

Earth it's it's our choice sir very at the time criticize or blame anyone sir because it's our choice now we have to go with that yeah absolutely and I think uh the things he brand was really nice

and uh the example you have given for the Buffalo like people they're unaware about it so I mean um it's really fabulous thank you much okay so we're done with nature and Technology and uh

now I would like to give you a quick uh feedback for how you performed so uh as uh nilam you are from India and you speak Indian English so I would say you spoke really nice I didn't find any

grammatical mistake in your speaking even though U the accent was proper a typical Indian accent but somewhere or the other I I felt like um you were with

the same track as you started speaking and you're finishing it until the end so sometimes we need to you know make our speak speaking P up sometimes we need to get it down and this is how it makes

people to be connected with you while somebody is listening to you the rest is okay and I think uh the words we use in your communication are professional and U the rest of the things were really

nice okay so we're done with this and thank you so much for taking out the time and to join this class and uh I'll see you in the next class thank you sir all

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