Beginner's Bengali (Bangla) with Online Audio (Hippocrene Beginner's) - Softcover

Thompson, Hanne-Ruth

 
9780781814201: Beginner's Bengali (Bangla) with Online Audio (Hippocrene Beginner's)

Synopsis

Learn Bengali with this complete course, now with free audio download!

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

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About the Author

Hanne-Ruth Thompson is a specialist on Bengali language structures with many years of experience of teaching Bengali at SOAS in London. She is author of Bengali: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge), Bengali published by John Benjamins in Amsterdam, and Beginner's Bengali with Audio CD, Bengali Dictionary & Phrasebook, and Bengali Practical Dictionary, all published by Hippocrene Books.

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ISBN 10:  0781813522 ISBN 13:  9780781813525
Publisher: Hippocrene Books, 2017
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