Complete Bengali: A Teach Yourself Guide
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0071767037 / 9780071767033
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Teach Yourself Language
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It's easy to teach yourself Bengali!
Complete Bengali: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Bengali, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Bengali with confidence.
Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society.
Features:
One and five-minute introductions to key principles to get you started
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress
Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language
Table of contents
Preface / Script diagrams / Part One: Sounds and script / Review of part one / Part Two: Conversation and grammar / Finding out about someone / Talking to a rickshawallah / Buying fruit and vegetables / Finding out about schools / Arranging a visit / Health and diet / Meeting an artist / Talking to a child / Conversation on a train / Telling stories / Meeting a writer / Learning Bengali / Review of Part Two / Part Three: Literature / The tailor-bird and the cat / Sakuntala / Satyajit Ray / Tagore in England / The Bangladesh War / Shamsur Rahman / The coming of the monsoon / Jibanananda Das / Review of Part Three / Key to the exercises / Glossary / Grammatical index
