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Introduction: |
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Bengali or Bangla is an Indigenous language of the
eastern South Asia region known as Bengal. At present, this
region includes Bangladesh and the Indian state of West
Bengal. Bengali declared national and official language of
Bangladesh and is one of the 23 national languages
acknowledged by the Republic of India.In India, it is the
official language of the state of West Bengal and the
co-official language of the state of Tripura, Cachar District
of southern Assam and the union territory of Andaman and
Nicobar Islands. |
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Bengali was also made an official language of Sierra Leone
with the purpose to pay tribute to the Bangladeshi
peacekeeping force from the United Nations stationed there.
Bengali with 200 million speakers is the fifth most widely
spoken language of the world, after Mandarin Chinese, English,
Spanish, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu). In India alone, there
are 70 milllion Bengali speakers, who made it the second most
commonly spoken language in the country. Outside Bangladesh
and India, Bengali is also spoken in Nepal, Singapore, Malawi,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and
the USA. Across all countries where Bengali is spoken, an
additional 5 million people speak it as a second language. |
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Bengali Language: |
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Bengali is an Indo-European language that belongs to the
Bengali-Assamese group of Eastern Zone languages within the
Indo-Aryan subfamily, hence, it is closely related to Assamese
and Oriya. The main dialects of Bengali are;
Central or Standard Bengali, Western Bengali (Kharia Thar, Mal
Paharia, Saraki), Southwestern Bengali, Northern Bengali
(Koch, Siripuria), Rajbangsi, Bahe, Eastern Bengali, Haijong,
Southeastern Bengali (Chakma), Ganda, Vanga, Chittagonian.
Historically it has evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and
Sanskrit languages, but it has developed its own writing
script, known as Bangla or as Kutila-lipi or ‘crooked script’.
Though it highly resembles the Devanagari script of Hindi,
Sanskrit, and other related Indic languages, it does not
follow the grammatical rules of these languages. It has freed
itself from grammatical gender and fixed stress on the initial
syllable of a word or phrase. |
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The Bengali script consists of 12 vowel graphemes and 52
consonant graphemes and is written left to right. Bengali is
also a source for some other related languages in the region,
like Assamese and Meithei that use the Bengali script with
minor modifications. The national anthems of both India and
Bangladesh were written in Bengali by renowned scholar
Rabindranath Tagore. |
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Our Bengali Language Course: |
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We, at Indo Vacations have designed a special
course in
Bengali Language Course that helps you to
learn this fantastic language. While designing this course we
have taken greatest care of the fact, that this course is
intended for people or students who do not belong to the
Bengali speaking regions. This course has planned in
association with experienced instructors, who have expertise
in teaching foreign students whose native language is not
Bengali. This course has planned with enough flexibility in
terms of duration that mainly depends on the interest of
student and the availability of trainer. This course is an
individual course, means you will get lessons by a personal
trainer. You are free to ask questions, take your time at the
exercises and practice the sentences as long as you and your
teachers are satisfied with the pronunciation. Normally these
classes run five days in a week with daily sessions of 5
hours. The daily classes are divided in two sessions pre lunch
and post lunch session. However, the timing can be rearranged
by your trainer with your consent. Our language program is an
inclusive program that includes your accommodation also. We
normally arrange your accommodation within 10 minute reaching
time to your teacher. This will facilitate better coordination
between you and your trainer and safe your time and money as
well. For accommodation, we provide you the different options;
stay with an Indian family or choose a guesthouse or pain
guest accommodation. We generally suggest you to stay with
local family so that you get better environment for learning
the language. You will learn a lot by listening and speaking
to your host family. You will also get a chance to experience
the sweet Bengali culture and Bengali way of living. During
your stay, you will be provided a personal room with bath and
WC, round the clock cold & warm water, meals including
breakfast, Lunch and dinner as well as Tea & coffee,
facilities for laundry, internet etc.
At present, we are conducting this Bengali Language Course in
main cities of West Bengal and other metropolitan cities of
India. We would arrange your transfer from nearby
international Airport, if wished so, on nominal charges. We
could also plan tours to nearby places or any other
destination in India and assist you for every other travel
tour services needed by you. For any further information
regarding Bengali Language Course or travel tour services, do
write us and give us a pleasure to assist you. |
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Bengali Language
Courses - some additional Information !
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We are offering
private language courses and normally these courses
are done by the hobby students from different countries.
There is no school and collage certificate is issued for
these short term language courses. Courses for the beginners
and advance learners are also organized. However you will
get a teaching certificate from your teacher about the
language lessons you have taken from her.
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We would
accommodate you with a small Indian family and you would be
provided a private room with batch and WC. The Room will be
air- cooled. We need to have some details about you with a
recent photograph to forward to the host family.
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You will be
taught by an experienced private female teacher and
the classes will take only 10 min. from the place where you
will be staying. Classes are normally for five days in
two parts in total for five hours.
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Please note
you will be taken care of by your teacher as well as
by the family you would stay with and we do not expect you
be out of the house in the late hours unless informed to the
host family.
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As this is a
private organized course you have the option of choosing
the time you would like to be here and we would check with
the teacher and confirm this by return to you.
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Please also note
that most of the host families cook only vegetarian food in
India so only vegetarian food will be served during the
stay.
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You would be
given the tel. numbers of the house as well as mobile of the
host family so that you can be reached by your family any
time.
For any further
information Team of Indo Vacations will be glad to assist you.
The glossary that
follows lists some important Bengali words with their English
translations:
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hello |
namoshkar |
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invitation |
nimontron/nimontonno |
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water |
jal |
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prayer |
prarthona |
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I |
Aami |
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He |
Se |
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She |
Se |
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You |
Tui / tumi / aapni |
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What is your name? |
Tomar naam ki? |
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What did you do? |
Tumi ki koro? |
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What can I do? |
Aami ki korte pari? |
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Yes, of course. |
Ha nischoy |
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How are you? |
Tumi kamon aacho |
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I am fine |
Aami bhalo aachi |
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