Because most of the kids in WN's two RugMark classes speak pretty marginal English, Ghanshyam and Rejina--my contacts there--asked that we make sure that the kids know how to fix the Indian and Chinese bicycles most common here, so they have, perhaps, job opportunities in non-tourist shops.
Part of that, I figured, was learning the Nepali names for bicycle parts. Here's the vocab from this week's lesson:
English name/Nepali name (pronunciation)
Tire/Tire
Tube/Tube
Rim/Rim
Hub/Hub
Axle/Laath (LAHT-h)
Cone/Cones (COHN-ess)
Lockring/Wasaar (WASS-ar)
Bearing/Bearing
Spoke/Spoke or Espoke (ESS-poke)
Valve/Baltu (BALL-tu)
Guess what we were learning about this week!
(All Nepali crudely transliterated by me, of course).
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