Learning Bengali, a language that ranks among the top ten spoken languages in the world with maximum native speakers in Bangladesh, comprising of 98% of its population.

In India, this language is spoken in the West Bengal state and in the states of Tripura and Assam. Among India, only Hindi has more speakers than Bengali, but India’s national anthem, “Jana Gana Mana,” was written in Bengali.

Many of the Bengali speaking people are found in West Bengal, where it plays an important role in Kolkata and a little over half Kolkata’s population speaks Bengali.

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Finding Free Online Resources

Start your learning with a Foreign Service Institute (FSI) that offers a short course by the US State Department to teach on how to speak the local language and these materials are available online, including a short course on Bengali. If you have an account on social networks you can search for Bengali language pages, it allows you to follow and interact with Bengali speakers and students.

Listen to Bengali poetry and prose

Listen to Bengali literature which can help you immerse yourself in the language and it will also give you the natural sound and rhythm of the language. You can do this along with the native speakers. Especially focus on the conversation rather than reading and writing, where you will learn a lot more quickly instead of trying to learn Bengali script.

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Watch videos to learn Bengali script.

The YouTube Channel “Talking Bees” has many videos you can watch for free which teaches on the Bengali alphabet. It focuses mainly on how to write and pronounce the Bengali alphabet. If you want you can start typing in Bengali script and you can do this by downloading it from online.

Read about news and current events in Bengali

Once you have learned the alphabet, you can start to read Bengali newspapers online or by getting it as a hard copy. You will find it easier to read about the events if you have knowledge about the same previously. Bengali newspapers will also help you to understand Bengali culture well. Hearing

Media

Start to watch Bengali movies, cultural events or news on the television. This will help you to immerse in the language deeply. Also listen to the podcasts, songs and lyrics of those songs. This method will speed up your learning process.

Learn new words

Whenever you see any new words in Bengali try to search that in a dictionary through online and offline resources. This will help you to gain more knowledge on new words and you can frame many sentences through this.

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Finally, an understanding of cultural and religious traditions is very important in learning and understanding the Bengali language.

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