Learn Bengali Through English Pdf

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Bengali is more widely spoken than French. It is spoken by one of the largest ethnic groups on planet earth and has been voted by linguists as the most beautiful language in the world... So it surprises me in a way, that people so frequently ask me in my YouTube and TikTok comments: "Why are you learning Bengali?". Someone even had the audacity to call it a 'useless language'. Don't worry... That comment got dealt with.

Despite Bengali's accolades as a vast and massively rewarding world language to learn, I do understand that it isn't quite as accessible or as promoted as, say French or Spanish, to English speakers. So allow me to give my best answer as to why I started learning Bengali, why I haven't stopped learning Bengali and how this little passion has turned into an interesting journey that you may like to follow.

However, I recently stumbled upon a frustration which I hadn't experienced as a teacher before. I had a student who just couldn't get to grips with the Arabic script and I just struggled to see what was so hard about remembering some letters. But then it dawned on me: "I haven't experienced learning a new script for 10 years! How would I empathise?". So I thought to myself: "What new script could I learn to experience being a beginner again?"

As I mentioned, this all started out just to practise the script in order to better empathise with my students. But once I started digging, I realised that this is a language has very very high rewards for continued study and some of them might surprise you.

Firstly, Bengali has a consistent literary tradition which is over 1,000 years old. By consistent, I mean is terms of having the same script and language which is accessible to modern Bengalis. So if you love literature like I do, it's a really rich and exciting option.

Secondly, the Bengalis have also produced incredible film and literature in modern times which has made excellent material available to be learned from for people who love languages but can easily get warn out by the intense social demands of having to have lots of conversations - you may know us as 'introverts'. (Oh yeh! I forget to mention, I believe Bengali is a fantastic language for introverts. But that's for another day,).

I love sharing raw and uncut experiences, even if I look silly or vulnerable in the process. So I think it's a shame when you find linguists on YouTube or other social media, they're always this finished product, a polished and scripted presentation of language skill. Of course, this language skill presented by "White guy speaking Chinese" or "kid speaks 6 languages", is an accumulation of hundreds of mistakes, hours of utterly dreadful pronunciation and months of practise, which we never see.

So 4 weeks ago, I started documenting my journey learning Bengali in a YouTube series called "My Bangla Diary". In episode 1, I confess that I knew no Bengali at all, except one word: "Balo or Bhalo, or something, which I'd heard at the mosque... I think ". However, now I can say some phrases, I can read and write the script fairly well and am sharing how I am managing to fit the study in my life as a busy working father and husband.

I upload a new entry into "My Bangla Diary" every Sunday at 9pm UK time and I'm also engaging with anyone else who's interested in the journey throughout the week on Instagram and TikTok. So if you want to find me, just search Sam Martin Burr on any platform.

BEFORE BEING EVEN five percent confident in uttering bare Bengali words, I thought they would come out too crude, funny, even gauche from my unpracticed mouth. In my head, I kept comparing myself to the wizard of words, Jhumpa Lahiri, and how she had legitimized her love affair with Italian, writing an entire book in it, giving interviews, going out in the world with so much gravitas about her love for the new tongue. I, on the other hand, had barely started picking up the language after I moved in with my partner in mid-2018.

As much as we were a part of the same religion, we did not celebrate it at such lengths. Whenever around them, I would try to listen in on their conversations. I wanted to know the real reason behind the celebrations, and somehow it seemed to me that their language was a portal to that. At my house, we only ever celebrated weddings this way, for days on end, stretching to a couple of weeks, at times.

I would hear M speak with parents, argue with friends, politely chat with a colleague, or bargain with a vendor. Subconsciously the language started making home in the crevices of my being. Without even the slightest of prodding I would be able to recall words before colleagues, displaying an unending eagerness to learn more and more.

It was jittery, an exercise in extreme patience and anxiety, but I felt charged. I moved through it electrically, responding to this urge that emanated out of nowhere. I had to fight the natural instinct to give in, back off, be my lazy self, but I continued learning.

In my extended friend circle, I was probably the only one who did not know more than three languages. The Indian equivalent to the dumb, vulgar, uncouth, uncultured American. I hated it and wanted to get rid of the tag. I wanted to show off too, like a guy from the Hindi film industry I was once friends with who knew a sum total of seven Indian languages, and then English. Ashen-faced, I had not been able to look him in the eye then. In this way, learning Bangla for me was an attempt to belong to a bigger populace, to outdo myself and to keep my language-oriented brain engaged.

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You will be guided to use these disciplines across a range of everyday, practical topics, such as expressing biographical information and preferences. The course material draws on a variety of sources and subjects from the modern-day language region, to create an authentic and engaging context.

As the course progresses, it aims to provide you with further confidence and vocabulary to discuss more complex topics, write and read more challenging texts in the language. This course is delivered by the Language Centre.

The course is taught in English and Bengali with coverage of the four key skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing). You will participate in frequent pair work and be encouraged to contribute to class conversation and exercises in the target language. Learning will be reinforced by weekly homework. Although all four language disciplines are used throughout, the first three weeks of this course focus heavily on the alphabet, as the ability to read Bengali is crucial for use of the assigned textbook. You are expected to attend regularly, participate in class and complete homework regularly to ensure learning progress.

This will be achieved through 20 hours of blended learning: this is composed of 15 hours of online structured lessons with the teacher. This is supplemented by a minimum of 5 hours of guided independent learning supported by complementary material and regular feedback from the tutor. The course objective will be achieved within the 10-week course.

The course will be based on the textbook: Radice, William (2016) Complete Bengali (5th Ed.): London: Hodder and Stoughton. Additional own devised material will be provided by the tutor to help foster a more contemporary context.

The textbook is not included in the fee. We strongly recommend waiting until your course is confirmed before purchasing the textbook.

For the first stage of Bengali Beginners (i.e. Bengali Beginners 1), no previous knowledge is required. To be able to join Beginners 2 or 3 you should have completed Beginners 1 and 2 respectively at SOAS Language Centre or have an equivalent knowledge of guided learning hours (20 hours blended learning per each sub-level). The progression route from Bengali Beginners 1 is to Bengali Beginners 2; from Beginners 2 to Beginners 3. Upon successful completion of Bengali Beginners 3 you will be able to progress to the Elementary level course in Bengali.

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The Bengalis are the third largest ethno-linguistic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and the Arabs. A quarter of a billion strong and growing, the community has produced three Nobel laureates, world-class scientists, legendary political leaders, iconic movie stars and directors and an unending stream of writers, philosophers, painters, poets and musicians of the first rank. But, bald facts aside, just who are the Bengalis? What is the community all about? In order to find the answers, the author delves deep into the culture, literature, history and social mores of the Bengalis.

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