Rice two kilo

English translation: we take the rice to Khilgaon

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English term or phrase:Rice two kilo
Selected answer:we take the rice to Khilgaon
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15:02 Sep 16, 2008
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Geography / Bangladeshi cuisine
English term or phrase: Rice two kilo
Both the person who transcribed the script of this film and I am unable to understand what the person says here. At 02:44 in episode 09 on http://dfg-science-tv.de/projekte/die-5-millionenstadt.html
a Bangladeshi says what sounds like "rice two kilo", but that doesn't make any sense. Does anyone here have a more trained ear for Bangladeshi English?

Of course, the source language is obviously not German, but English -> English generates an error message and Bangladeshi/Pidgin English is not listed here as an option.
David Williams
Germany
Local time: 06:45
we take the rice to Khilgaon
Explanation:
I am so guessing this, but I am confident that he is saying:

We're taking (or we take) the rice to ....

And Khilgaon is one of the districts in Bangladesh (based on an online map).
This makes sense, because after this sentence he says "the rice comes from "....


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Note added at 16 mins (2008-09-16 15:19:17 GMT)
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Actually - Khilgaon is a district in Dhaka, to be more precise.
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Lingua.Franca
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Local time: 06:45
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2 +5we take the rice to Khilgaon
Lingua.Franca
4... taking the rice to Kilgaon, and the rice comes from Dinaspur
Iqbal Bootwalla


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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +5
we take the rice to Khilgaon


Explanation:
I am so guessing this, but I am confident that he is saying:

We're taking (or we take) the rice to ....

And Khilgaon is one of the districts in Bangladesh (based on an online map).
This makes sense, because after this sentence he says "the rice comes from "....


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Note added at 16 mins (2008-09-16 15:19:17 GMT)
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Actually - Khilgaon is a district in Dhaka, to be more precise.

Lingua.Franca
Spain
Local time: 06:45
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Nagyon szépen köszönöm!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Orion Schmidt: I was just about to suggest the same thing.
3 mins

agree  Denyce Seow
1 hr

agree  Jürgen Lakhal De Muynck
1 hr

agree  EC Translate
1 hr

agree  Phong Le
14 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
... taking the rice to Kilgaon, and the rice comes from Dinaspur


Explanation:
The person in the video is talking about the destination and the origin of the rice. Kilgaon appears to be the name of a village (gaon in Hindi, and probably in Urdu-Bengali, means village) and it has been sources from Dinaspur (a town, probably)

Iqbal Bootwalla
Local time: 10:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in HindiHindi
Notes to answerer
Asker: Very many thanks for confirming, and also for clarifying the source, which I had also misheard as Benashpur. Much appreciated!

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