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Bengali

Save Bengali as a language-learning interest while level-specific, reviewed instruction is developed.

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  • bengali-a1-dialogues: required audio asset is not ready
  • bengali-a1-pronunciation: required audio asset is not ready

What this course establishes

  • Recognize core Bengali-script patterns and exchange greetings using তুমি or respectful আপনি consistently
  • Exchange name, origin, residence, and languages using introductory postpositions and person forms
  • State non-understanding and request repetition, slower speech, spelling, or confirmation

Entry knowledge

  • No prior Bangla required
  • Ability to read or use an accessible alternative for short Bengali-script text

Scope boundaries

  • Introductory A1-oriented interaction only; not fluency, full conjunct, spelling, pronunciation, classifier, case, or verb mastery, interpretation, translation, certification, or professional-language qualification

Fastest competency route

No fluency or fastest-hour promise; acceleration depends on demonstrated listening, speaking, reading, writing, interaction, script, person forms, postpositions, register, and repair.

  1. Pass script, address, listening, pronunciation, person-form, and postposition diagnostics after approved audio exists
  2. Complete greeting, identity, location, language, and communication-repair performances
  3. Correct script, person, register, meaning, and interaction errors in a final portfolio

Full self-paced route

  1. Bengali script, greetings, and address with qualified-speaker audio
  2. Identity, origin, residence, languages, and person forms
  3. Requests, clarification, and confirmation
  4. Interaction portfolio, feedback, revision, and final assessment

Lesson and assessment map

01

বাংলা লিপি, অভিবাদন ও সম্বোধন

Recognize core script patterns and exchange greetings with consistent informal or respectful address.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

02

পরিচয়, স্থান ও পুরুষ

Exchange origin, residence, and language information using matching person forms and postpositions.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

03

না বোঝা, পুনরাবৃত্তি ও নিশ্চিতকরণ

State non-understanding and request repetition, slower speech, spelling, or confirmation.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

Required applied assignment

Bengali introductory interaction portfolio

Create three contemporary Bangla interactions—greeting, introduction, and communication repair—with accurate Bengali script, consistent address, person/postposition annotations, English functional meanings, and revision. Listening and pronunciation scoring remain unavailable until qualified-speaker audio is approved.

  • Informal and respectful greeting exchanges
  • Identity exchange with origin, residence, languages, postpositions, and person forms
  • Repair exchange with non-understanding, matched request, and confirmation
  • Line-by-line English meaning plus script, address, person, and postposition notes
  • Pronunciation notes tied to approved region-labeled audio once available
  • Revision memo correcting script, person, postposition, register, meaning, or identity inference

Passing standard: 80 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.

Continue after this course

  • Complete independent vowels, dependent signs, consonants, conjuncts, diacritics, inherent vowels, and pronunciation with qualified-speaker audio
  • Noun classification, number, case markers/postpositions, pronouns, honorific levels, and modifiers
  • Tense-aspect-person forms, negation, questions, complex clauses, reading, writing, and conversation
  • Documented Bangladesh and Indian regional vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation variation