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| linguaphile Triglot Newbie India Joined 6310 days ago 14 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Hindi, FrenchC1, German, Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 9 of 33 06 December 2007 at 3:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow!
Now my only problem is that at my current speed of Devanagari reading it would take me ages to get through that material (I've always prioritized the spoken language over written), so definitely more time than I currently have for a language with which I am just flirting (for now;)! So I've downloaded all the files for Bengali (and Marathi and Gujarati :), and once my Hindi skills are better I'll definitely be able to put it to good use... thanks! [I do already have one not-so-great book on Bengali, picked up on my most recent trip to India, and partially read on the plane on the way back, but the stuff in your link will be FAR more helpful... but only once I am ready for it ;)] As far as materials in Hindi for Sanskrit, there's tons of material available... in India. (All really cheap too :) But I know of nothing online myself... So assuming you can't take a trip there anytime soon :), you might put some effort into finding someone who is there and coming to Norway soon, they can probably find a whole bunch of books on the topic that each cost less than the equivalent of 1 Euro (or its Kroner equivalent... I actually stock up on language books when I go there...) Not ideal and not exactly what you seek and possibly not even practical at all for you, but I mention it only because there is really so much material for learning Sanskrit from Hindi and you should try to take advantage of it in SOME way if it interests you enough... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| unmaad Tetraglot Newbie India Joined 6177 days ago 38 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: Bengali*, English, GermanC2, Hindi Studies: Japanese | Message 10 of 33 06 January 2008 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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A word of caution!! Whatever you do, just never try to learn bengali by going through the bengali wikipedia pages. The writing is completely wrong. Although the letters and symbols are correct, the writing arrangement is completely messed up. It took me (a native speaker) 5 minutes to decypher a single small sized paragraph. Unfortunately so far I have not come across any really good material in the net...your best bet will be to get in touch with people who can speak the language.
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| bangla52 Newbie Bangladesh Joined 6167 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 11 of 33 07 January 2008 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||
Actually, there is nothing wrong with Bangla Wikipedia, rather it is YOUR browser which is incorrectly set up and cannot display Unicode Bangla (or, for that matter, any other unicode Indic script). You, and others having such problems can solve this by going to the control panel and enabling complex script support. Details can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDIC Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| unmaad Tetraglot Newbie India Joined 6177 days ago 38 posts - 52 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, GermanC2, Hindi Studies: Japanese | Message 12 of 33 07 January 2008 at 1:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for your help...I was really shocked to find such horrible writing! Thankfully the fault is in my end and not in the site...after all I dont need to learn the language...;)
For other members...I am sure many of you will be stuck with a similar problem. Please refer to the link posted by Bangla52. Do not use wikipedia before enabling this complex language support feature. GL. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6915 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 13 of 33 11 January 2008 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Look what I found!
Bengali language handbook available from ERIC! It looks like it's got a complete grammar, info about different dialects, literature, poetry, script, sounds etc. Looks pretty good, it was written in 1966 though. Here is a supposed illustrated phrase book for Bengali and 14 other languages. However, I couldn't get any of the pictures to show. Does anyone else have this problem? Maybe I need to download it... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| virgule Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6841 days ago 242 posts - 261 votes Studies: Korean | Message 14 of 33 02 February 2008 at 10:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Just to add that Transparent have released a BYKI Bengali.
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| unzum Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom soyouwanttolearnalan Joined 6915 days ago 371 posts - 478 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 15 of 33 28 February 2008 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Peace Corps Bengali
I have just found a Peace Corps course for Bengali with audio, which is fantastic because before this, there weren't really any online resources with audio. I've had a look through, there are 16 lessons and it doesn't look that comprehensive, although the section at the beginning for pronunciation looks pretty good. It has vocabulary and dialogue sections, and the mp3s are just the pdf read out loud. There aren't any exercises but I think this could be useful for getting the sound of Bengali first, and then following it with a proper textbook like Edward Dimock's books. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Deji Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5441 days ago 116 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Hindi, Bengali | Message 16 of 33 03 January 2010 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really like
http://www.bengali-dictionary.com/english-bengali-words-phra ses-contents.html a lot! Sound files too. It has both appropriate words and the phrases. My new project is to be able to say "Education is the formation of the whole man: intellect, mind, body, spirit and soul!" so everyone can understand me. (At the moment a Bengali's response would be "Huh? what was that?") :( 1 person has voted this message useful |
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