Designed for learners beginning Bengali or those who wish to brush up their knowledge, this course helps users progress from the basics to understanding, speaking and writing Bengali with confidence. Bengali stands sixth in the world in its number of speakers, has the richest and most developed literature in South Asia and is the national language of Bangladesh and the state language of West Bengal. There are also large Bengali-speaking communities in India, the Middle East, North America and Britain. This cassette is designed to support part two of the book "Teach Yourself Bengali", covering communication - conversation and grammar. The units in this section are based on useful everyday dialogues for which the transcripts are presented in the book.
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978-0-340-86031-1 (9780340860311)
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William Radice is Senior Lecturer in Bengali at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has pursued a double career as a poet and as a scholar and translator of Bengali, and has written or edited more than twenty-five books. He has given numerous lectures and poetry readings in Britain and overseas, and has been awarded literary prizes in India and Bangladesh. For the last three years he has written a fortnightly column for the Statesman newspaper in India, and has been a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2 s early morning 'Pause for Thought'.
