Beginner's Bengali (Bangla) : with online audio / Hanne-Ruth Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Hanne-Ruth, author.

Series:

Beginner's guides (New York, N.Y.)

Hippocrene beginner's series

Language:

Bengali

English

Subjects (All):

Bengali language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Bengali language.

Bengali language--Self-instruction.

Bengali language--Spoken Bengali.

Bengali language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Bengali language--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Self-instruction.

Textbooks -- for English speakers.

Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.

Textbooks.

Programmed instructional materials.

Physical Description:

xx, 347 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Online audio edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY491.4482421 : Hippocrene Books, Inc., 2021.

Language Note:

In English and Bengali.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Unit 1 Sounds and script

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

Unit 3

Dialogue What's this? Who is he? (Part Two)

Grammar 2 As a Question Marker

Grammar 3 Pronouns

Idiomatic expressions: like and dislike

Unit 4

Dialogue: Where is Saida?

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

Unit 5

Dialogue At the zoo

Grammar 6 Bangla classifiers

Narrative: My family

Grammar 7 Postpositions

Grammar 8 Obligation

Additional Vocabulary: Animals and people

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

Essential verbs

Verbs say, tell, talk, speak

Unit 7

Dialogue filial Neighbors

Grammar 11 Verb

Grammar 12 Negation

Grammar 13 Indefinites

Narrative: A village holiday

Grammar 14 Emphasizers

Additional Vocabulary: Time and place words

Unit 8

Dialogue: After the invitation

Grammar 15 Quantifiers, amounts

Narrative: Stupid servants

Grammar 16 Comparison

Grammar 17 Verbs of being

Grammar 18 Reflexives and reciprocals

Additional Vocabulary: Telling the time

Unit 9

Dialogue the post office

Grammar 19 Perfective participles (PP)

Verbal sequences

Grammar 20 Compound verbs

Narrative Bad mood

Additional Vocabulary: Around the house

Grammar 21 Causative and extended verbs

Review Exercises

Unit 10

Dialogue the market

Narrative: Sunrise

Grammar 22 Verbal nouns (VN)

Grammar 23 Imperfective participles (IP)

Grammar 24 Impersonal structures

Additional Vocabulary: Food, drinks, and spices

Unit 11

Dialogue: At a hotel

Grammar 25 Conditional participles (CP)

Narrative: Untimely punishment

Grammar 26 Conditional sentences with if

Additional Vocabulary: Common adjectives

Unit 12

Dialogue: Headache

Additonal Vocabulary: Body and health

Grammar 27 Bangla tense use

Narrative: Fearless

Unit 13

Dialogue Which way?

Grammar 28 Compound and complex sentences and conjunctions

Narrative: Seasons

Additional Vocabulary: Nature words

Grammar 29 Correlative structures

Unit 14

Dialogue That's funny!

Grammar 30 Word order

Narrative The Padma

Additional Vocabulary: Abstract nouns

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0781814200

9780781814201

OCLC:

1191175029

Publisher Number:

99987875740