Bangla General Information
Viswayan Compilation of resources WikiPedia - Bengali Bangla - ARCHIVE.ORG
Courses
101 Languages - Bengali Bengali Lesson ILanguages Learn Bengali Speaking Through English myLanguages - Bengali University of Chicago - Digital South Asia Library Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center - Language Survival Kit - Bengali Learn Bangla School Learn Bangla USA Joy Language Services - Bangla GPA school BangaliNET How to speak Bengali - Numbers by Dialect101com Ciil-ebooks - Bangla Course Bangla for Germans - ARCHIVE.ORG wcomotion - Epar Bangla Opar Bangla: Bangla Across Borders! Banglapedia
Phrases
17 Minutes Languages - Bengali myLanguages - Bengali Phrases Master any Language - Bengali Wiktionary - Basic Bengali Phrases Wikibooks - Bengali Common Phrases Wikitravel - Bengali Phrasebook
Grammar
Complete Bengali (Teach Yourself) by William Radice Beginner’s Bengali by Hanne Ruth Thompson Bengali: A Comprehensive Grammar by Hanne Ruth Thompson Essential Everyday Bengali by Hanne Ruth Thompson UChicago Bengali Instructional Textbooks and Materials
References - Dictionaries, Grammar, and Encyclopedias
English and Bengali Online Dictionary and Grammar AL dictionary - English to Bengali Bengali Dictionary - Temporarily down? Lexilogos - Dictionnaire Bengali Ovidhan.org Online Bangla Dictionary Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary Bangla - bdword
Media
Video
TED Bengali Popular Movies summarized in Bangla with Visuals Sisimpur Bangaldesh’s Sesame Street Partner Project Moyur Media Talkingbees-Learn Bengali,Hindi,Music Online Learn Bengali Speaking Through English | Bangladesh language | Bangla Personal Pronouns | Words by RASELraju Institute
Cinema
ZEE5 hoichoi - The best of Bengal
Podcasts
NHK World Japan - Bengali News Mirchi Bangla
Radio
Online Radio FM India - Bengali Live Online Radio - Radio Bhumi Radio Foorti Bhoot FM Jago FM Dhaka FM Bangla Radio Canberra Australia
Audiobooks
221bBookStreet on YouTube Audio Book Bangla by Faheem on YouTube Banglar Sera Sahityo on YouTube Mirchi Bangla on YouTube
Pronunciation/Listening
Online Bengali News
Parabaas Abasar Ajantrik small magazine
Reading
Bangladesh Government Textbooks
Newspapers
Abasar ABYZ News Links - Bengali - Some links still work BBC - Bengali DW - Bengali
Literature/reading
- The Complete Adventures of Feluda Vol 1 and 2 by Satyajit Ray (These are mystery novels and stories written for a young adult audience, but immensely popular. Penguin English Translations are available as well as high quality audiobook productions available free from public radio)
- Ekattorer Dinguli by Jahanara Imam, the English translation is titled Of Blood and Fire. You can find a homemade audiobook version online
- Rabindranath Tagore (Won the Nobel Prize in Literature for GITANJOLI)
- Humayun Ahmed
- Mohammed Zafar Iqbal
Bengali Fonts
ScriptSource Bengali Bangla very complete font information and font file formats OmicronLab font list WAZU Japan’s Gallery of Unicode Fonts - Bengali Nongnu Free Bangla Font Avro Keyboard is free, phonetic, and pretty great (though the spellchecker is far from perfect)
Forums
Comics
Religious Material
If you are familiar with the Bible, the Kitabbul Muqaddus is a 4-5th grade Musselmani Bangla translation. There’s a free app of the same name that has the full text, audiobook, and spiritual songs. You can also find religious material for children, which works well as “third-culture” material for bridging contexts.
Sources
Omniglot - Bengali Language Learners’ Forum - Bangla Bengali Resources Language Learners’ Forum - Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) Courses Available for Download