Includes index. "Free audio download" -- p. 4 of cover.
Contents:
Appendix 9 Unit 1 Numbers. 1. The Script: An Overview -- Vowels and vowel signs -- Consonants -- Bangla Alphabetical Order -- 2. Transliteration and Pronunciation -- 2.1. Script and sound -- 2.2. Conjuncts -- 2.3. Voice and aspiration -- 2.4. Dental and retroflex stops -- 2.5. Sibilants -- 3. Bangla Letters, Symbols and Sounds -- Vowels and vowel signs (overview) -- Consonants (overview) -- Other symbols -- Similar letters by shape -- Frequency chart -- 4. Sounds and Script of Individual Letters -- 5. Notes on word and sentence formation -- Vowel Sequences -- Adjacent Consonants -- Punctuation -- Exercises -- Unit 2 -- Dialogue: What's this? Who is he? (Part 1) -- Transliteration and glosses for dialogue -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 1 Sentence construction -- Exercises -- Unit 3 -- Dialogue What's this? Who is he? (Part Two) -- Transliteration and glosses for dialogue -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 2 As a Question Marker -- Grammar 3 Pronouns -- Idiomatic expressions: like and dislike -- Exercises -- Unit 4 -- Dialogue: Where is Saida? -- Transliteration and glosses for dialogue -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 4 Question words -- Narrative: Bimol's village home -- Transliteration and glosses for narrative -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Grammar 5 Case -- Additional Vocabulary -- Numbers to fifteen -- Points on the compass -- Days of the week -- mon heart, mind -- Exercises -- Unit 5 -- Dialogue At the zoo -- Transliteration and glosses for dialogue -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 6 Bangla classifiers -- Narrative: My family -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Grammar 7 Postpositions -- Grammar 8 Obligation -- Additional Vocabulary: Animals and people -- Exercises -- Unit 6 Verbs -- Grammar 9 Bangla verbs complete -- Verb stems -- Vowel mutation -- Verb endings -- Conjugation patterns -- Non-finite verb forms -- Imperatives -- Grammar 10 Making sentences -- Additional Vocabulary -- Essential verbs -- Verbs say, tell, talk, speak -- Exercises -- Unit 7 -- Dialogue filial Neighbors -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 11 Verb -- Grammar 12 Negation -- Grammar 13 Indefinites -- Narrative: A village holiday -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Grammar 14 Emphasizers -- Additional Vocabulary: Time and place words -- Exercises -- Unit 8 -- Dialogue: After the invitation -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 15 Quantifiers, amounts -- Narrative: Stupid servants -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Grammar 16 Comparison -- Grammar 17 Verbs of being -- Grammar 18 Reflexives and reciprocals -- Additional Vocabulary: Telling the time -- Exercises -- Unit 9 -- Dialogue the post office -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 19 Perfective participles (PP) -- Verbal sequences -- Grammar 20 Compound verbs -- Narrative Bad mood -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Additional Vocabulary: Around the house -- Grammar 21 Causative and extended verbs -- Exercises -- Review Exercises -- Unit 10 -- Dialogue the market -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Narrative: Sunrise -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Grammar 22 Verbal nouns (VN) -- Grammar 23 Imperfective participles (IP) -- Grammar 24 Impersonal structures -- Additional Vocabulary: Food, drinks, and spices -- Exercises -- Unit 11 -- Dialogue: At a hotel -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 25 Conditional participles (CP) -- Narrative: Untimely punishment -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Grammar 26 Conditional sentences with if -- Additional Vocabulary: Common adjectives -- Exercises -- Unit 12 -- Dialogue: Headache -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Additonal Vocabulary: Body and health -- Grammar 27 Bangla tense use -- Narrative: Fearless -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Exercises -- Unit 13 -- Dialogue Which way? -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 28 Compound and complex sentences and conjunctions -- Narrative: Seasons -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Additional Vocabulary: Nature words -- Grammar 29 Correlative structures -- Exercises -- Unit 14 -- Dialogue That's funny! -- Vocabulary: Dialogue -- Grammar 30 Word order -- Narrative The Padma -- Vocabulary: Narrative -- Additional Vocabulary: Abstract nouns -- Exercises -- Bangla Grammar Overview -- Answer Key to Exercises -- Dictionaries -- Using Bangla dictionaries -- Bangla -- English Dictionary -- English -- Bangla Dictionary -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 The inherent vowel -- Appendix 2 Consonant conjuncts -- Appendix 3 Verb charts -- Appendix 4 Common verbs -- Appendix 5 Common compound verbs -- Appendix 6 Common conjunct verbs -- Appendix 7 Family relationships, kinship terms -- Appendix 8 Months and seasons -- Appendix 9 Numbers.
Summary:
Spoken by over 200 million people worldwide, Bengali (Bangla) is an official language of Bangladesh and India. It is an Indo-Aryan language that descended from Sanskrit and has a rich thousand-year-old literary tradition. Ideal for those new to Bengali/Bangla, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner's Bengali (Bangla) with Online Audio includes: Introductory Unit 1 that clearly outlines basics of Bengali/Bangla sounds and script and serves as a key building block for subsequent chapters; Fourteen carefully-paced units, each chapter including practical grammar lessons, exercises and vocabulary; Answer key and helpful appendices including verb charts, numbers and kinship terms; Bengali-English and English-Bengali glossaries; Online MP3 audio files for free download featuring pronunciation by native speakers.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.