Deji Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5441 days ago 116 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Hindi, Bengali
| Message 17 of 33 03 January 2010 at 7:28pm | IP Logged |
I don't know why everyone is searching around when we have had Radice's
Teach Yourself Bengali all these years.
Then you just have to settle down and write অ আ ই (that is in Bangla, if you don't
have the font) et al over and over about a thousand times.
I have some scanned copies of pages from a book of nursery rhymes which I
bought in Calcutta. It is good for beginners because the nursery rhymes are in
English, but written in both English and Bengali. So in Bangla it comes out
"Heekaari deekaari daak / Di maaus ren aap di klaak" etc. but since an English-
speaker knows the words already it is a bit easier to practice with. Not to mention
cute illustrations. I'd be happy to upload it if someone can tell me where.
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Deji Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5441 days ago 116 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Hindi, Bengali
| Message 18 of 33 03 January 2010 at 7:48pm | IP Logged |
Bengali language handbook available from ERIC looks very very interesting if you already know a fair bit of Bengali.
However opening up yet another academic's version of Bengali transliteration makes me want to weep. At least the
Bangla typeface isn't too bad, even if the English has awful old typography.
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nahiaali33 Newbie Pakistan stories.pk/urdu-hind Joined 5242 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes
| Message 19 of 33 20 July 2010 at 10:14am | IP Logged |
You want pure Chandipurerb hayqankar --- Bengali Stories, i hope you like it.
http://www.stories.pk/urdu-hindi/chandipurerb-hayqankar-beng ali-stories-t8818.html
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Deji Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5441 days ago 116 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Hindi, Bengali
| Message 20 of 33 26 August 2010 at 5:14am | IP Logged |
Thanks, Nahiaali!
Porte chesta korbo! Ekhon amaar kaache Chaander Pahaar. Eta Bibhutibhusan Bandhopadhyayer katha.
Deji
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Afgjasmine16 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 6007 days ago 29 posts - 55 votes Speaks: Pashto*, English, Hindi Studies: Bengali, Tamil, Indonesian, Turkish
| Message 21 of 33 21 October 2010 at 1:57am | IP Logged |
Hi! I learn Bangla too! here are some links for you that I have used:
http://gobangla.web.officelive.com/default.aspx
http://www.languageshome.com/English-Bengali.htm
http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zben01.htm
http://kksongs.org/language/bengali/lesson01.html
http://all-about-bengali.blogspot.com/
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Heinrich S. Groupie Germany Joined 6937 days ago 63 posts - 85 votes Studies: French
| Message 22 of 33 09 June 2011 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
Hello,
I'm going to West Bengal in about three months. I'll be there for three months and want to get a head start on Bengali. I am thinking about concentrating on speaking and just learning the fundamentals scriptwise.
I see there still is a dearth of decent audio-based Bengali learning materials in the Pimsleur style. Or am I overlooking something? It's been a while since the last post.
Thanks
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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 23 of 33 09 June 2011 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
Heinrich S. wrote:
Hello,
I'm going to West Bengal in about three months. I'll be there for three months and want to get a head start on Bengali. I am thinking about concentrating on speaking and just learning the fundamentals scriptwise.
I see there still is a dearth of decent audio-based Bengali learning materials in the Pimsleur style. Or am I overlooking something? It's been a while since the last post.
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Yes, I don't think there are any audio-only courses for Bengali, I've never seen any.
You might find Colloquial Bengali useful, as it apparently focuses more on conversation than Teach Yourself Bengali, but the basic format is textbook + audio. I think they use script in the book but you might find the TY to be better for teaching the script.
There is a Unilang user called Meera who is actively learning Bengali and using TY Bengali & Colloquial Bengali. You might get more information from them.
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Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6666 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil
| Message 24 of 33 09 June 2011 at 10:48pm | IP Logged |
Deji wrote:
I don't know why everyone is searching around when we have had Radice's
Teach Yourself Bengali all these years. |
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I actually got Teach Yourself Bengali from the library this week and after skimming through it, it really seems a very good book. I like the way how the sounds/letters are introduced subsequently, instead of overwhelming the reader with the entire alphabet right at the beginning.
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