Bengali: A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself)

By William Radice

Book Overview

Bestselling language courses! From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly. Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including: Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises Step-by-step guide to pronunciation Practical vocabulary Regular and irregular verb tables Plenty of practice exercises and answers Bilingual glossary The new editions also feature: Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout Self-assessment quizzes to test progress Website suggestions to take language study further

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844237523
• ISBN13: 9780844237527
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Teach Yourself
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

great content poor organization

As I say with every TY book, they always have great content but poor organization. It is not that hard to order the concepts in a logical way so that it helps to faciliate the learning. PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE ORDER OF THESE BOOKS TY!!!!

helpful tool

used it in class. very useful for reading practice. not so much for the practice exercises.

To Bangla or not to Bangla

The cd for this book has some great conversations to practice. However, the time allowed to repeat is minimal. It would be SO much better if more time were allowed. The book is written, it seems, by a professor using college type language. I had studied Bangla many years ago and was using this as a refresher. If I had been brand new to the language...I would have been lost in the wordage. It has, however, been very helpful to me and I would recommend it to someone who plans to be in the country for awhile.

Well-written grammar for a broad range of learning styles.

This book is meticulously crafted and will satisfy the needs of a broad range of learning styles. In addition to lucid explanations of grammar and idiomatic usage, much cultural information, especially as it bears upon speaking habits (including regional and religious variation), is given. Included also is an up-to-date bibliography with references to works on Bengali linguistics, literature, and culture as well as to grammars and dictionaries. This is very useful, as a serious learner will wish to consult a number of sources. The only potential shortcoming -- though some may find this a strength -- is that the first thirteen chapters are devoted to entirely to pronunciation and orthography. Later, most of the text is given entirely in the Bengali orthography in which it is not always possible to predict the presence or absence of the "inherent vowel." Consequently, one is forced to master Bengali orthography before learning most of the grammatical structure. This may slow down the learner who wishes to learn grammar patterns first and acquire the orthography later.

The only great book for learning bengali.

This book is great for someone who wants to learn Bengali. I have tried many other books, and this is the only one that could help...