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For Teaching Bengali as a Second or Third Langauge Modern Textbook in Bengali as Foreign  Language                                           by Khaleda Beena and S M Babulanam   This book was ultimately printed in Sweden (Informtrycket, Goteborg); May 2000;   ISBN 9197342041; Pages 176, size: 2cm x29cm x21cm, Price: 29 Euro+ Freig

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART 2 Bengali Sentence Making   and Grammar

PART 1 Bengali Letters and Words

Chapter 6 Measuring Terms

Chapter 1  International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA

Chapter 7 Parts of Speech

Chapter 2  Bengali Letters

Chapter 3  Vowel-Signs

Chapter 8  Verb

Chapter 9 Case and Word Order

Chapter 4 Bengali Word Building

Chapter 10 Case and Word Order

Chapter 5 Conunct Letters

Bengali Easy Orthography

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This book has been created in Sweden out the results of research in teaching  Bengali as a Third language by Hermeneutic pedagogy and Phenomenographic method. The students, teachers, mentors and educationists worked together to teach each other and de-centrate themselves in order to understand "If you was me and I were you". Because, in this age,a Third language learner cannot afford more than an hour per week for learning an "unimportant" third language and they have got many other importnant and interesting things to do with a modern Computer and they are never satisfied with a one-year-old computer. The Second generation immigrant Children are stressed in learning the obligatory Second and the B-language (Spanish/French/German).

If you have a Bengali teacher or a mentor, you can skip the first chapter and jump directly to the second chapter of the book. Otherwise you have to go through the first chapter to learn how Bengali speech sounds are associated with the "International Phonetic Alphabets". This is needed if you want to speak Bengali as the natives. When you have gone through these ten chapters, you can read, write, speak and comprehend Bengali speech sounds floating in the air. You can chat even with any one of tens of millions of Bengali illiterates. We transcribe the Bengali pronunciation in IPA. In that sense it is a trilingual book: Bengali, IPA trranscription and English. Bengali spelling is further made easy by dissecting the Bengali letters which are not used as initial letters in word-buliding. But we present the traditional spelling vis-a-vis in smaller letters so that you will not be in puzzle when you face them. You know what it is.

The Bengali book was printed in May 2000. More information about the book is available at the site Libris or from Babulanam You may borrow the book from SOAS (University of London) or other libraries OR You may buy our books from  Wettergrens,Goteborg, Sweden, telephone +46-31-7062537 Akademibokhandeln Akademibokhandeln City, Stockholm Immigrrant Institute, Boras, Sweden Akademibokhandeln LundeQ, Uppsala, Sweden, tel: +46-18-139830 Malmo bokhandel, Malmo, Sweden, tel: +46-40-100470, Fax: +46-40-6110412 Akademibokhandeln Nordstan, Goteborg, Sweden, tel:+46-31-617030

The original book   in Swedish

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