Bengali Learning Materials-- by Arif Billah
Course books
- Teach Yourself Bengali (McGraw Hill, 2003) William Radice [Beginners – Intermediate]
- Intermediate Bangla (LINCOM Europa, Munich, 2002) Clinton Seely [Intermediate]
- Modern textbook in Bengali as Foreign Language (Trycket, Goteborg, 2000) Khaleda Beena [Beginners]
- Essential Everyday Bengali (Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1999) Hanne-Ruth Thompson
- Lonely Planet Bengali Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Publications, 1996) Bimal Maity
- Learning Bengali (Rupshi Bangla, London, 1990) M.R. Hilali [Beginners – Lower Intermediate]
- Bengali for Foreigners (University Press Ltd., Dhaka,1987) Ed. Brother James [Beginners]
- Learn Bengali Yourself (A. Das Gupta, Calcutta, 1989) Bidhubhusan Dasgupta [Beginners]
- Learn Bengali for English Speakers (Saphrograph Corp, USA) Suniti Kumar Chatterji [Beginners]
- An intensive course in Bengali (Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India, 1981)
- Krishna Bhattacharya, A.K. Basu [Lower Intermediate]
- An intensive course in Bengali Krishna Bhattacharya, A.K. Basu
- An Advanced Course in Bengali (South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1978) Bender et al
- Learn Bengali in Thirty Days (Laurier Books Ltd, 2002) N.S.R. Ganthe
- Learn Bengali in a Month (Read Well Publications, India, 1997) N.K. Huha
- Introduction to Bengali Pt. 1 A basic Course in spoken Bengali (French & European Pubns, 1991) Edward C. Dimock Jr
- An introduction to Colloquial Bengali (Central Board for Development of Bengali,1970) Rafiqul Islam
Listening
- Teach Yourself Bengali (Monsur Musa, 2000) William Radice [Beginners to Intermediate level]
- Learn Bengali (Euro Talk) [Beginners level]
Reading
- A Bengali reader for the beginners (Bangla Books, 2000) Ghulam Murshid
Bengali Films
The following films are available in the Resources Room at SOAS Language Centre (available to SOAS registered students and staff, under ERA licence). You will find there a description of the content of the films.
- Pather Panchali (Dir. Satyajit Ray, 1955) [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate, English subtitles]
- Charulata (Dir. Satyajit Ray) [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate, English subtitles]
- Aparajito (Dir. Satyajit Ray, 1957) [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate, English subtitles]
- Days and Nights in the Forest (Dir. Satyajit Ray) [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate, English subtitles]
- Kanchenjungha (Dir. Satyajit Ray, 1962) [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate, English subtitles]
- The Stranger (Dir. Satyajit Ray, 1962) [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate, English subtitles]
- Shakha proshakha (Dir. Satyajit Ray) [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate, English subtitles]
- Jalsaghar (Dir. Satyajit Ray) [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate, English subtitles]
Songs and rhymes
- Bengali Folk Songs (2001) Utpalendu Chowdhury [Lower Intermediate – Intermediate]
Radio and TV Broadcasts
- Bangla TV, London
- Channel S, London
- Betar Bangla (London radio)
Grammar and Lexicography
These books are especially suitable for teachers.
- The verb structure in colloquial Bengali (Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1985)
- Qazi Din Muhammad [Lower Intermediate - Intermediate]
- The noun phrase in Bengali: assignment of the role and the Karaka theory (Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi, 1990) Malaya Gangopadhyay [Intermediate]
- The Portuguese contribution to Bengali prose, grammar and lexicography (Bangla Academy, Dhaka,
- Bangladesh, 1976) Abdur Rahman Khondkar [Intermediate]
- A grammar of Bengali language (Ananda, Kolkata, 1980) Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
Bengali Dialects
- Learning Sylheti (London: Centre for Bangladesh Studies, 1996) Rod Chalmers [Beginners Level]
- Introduction to an East Pakistani dialect (University of Minnesota, St. Paul, 1963) Rafiqul Islam
Bengali Culture
- Rabindranath Tagore - Selected Poems (Penguin, 1987) Trans. William Radice
- Rabindranath Tagore - Selected Short Stories (Penguin, 1994) Trans. William Radice
- Lonely Planet Bangladesh (Lonely Planet Publications, 2000) Richard Plunkett et al
- Adhunika bamla chanda (Kalyani: Dipali Sen, 1980) Nilaratan Sen
- Bengali poetry into English: an impossible dream (University of Melbourne Indian studies; 1977) Maddern Marian
Dictionaries
- Bangla Academy Bengali-English Dictionary (The Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1994) Ed. Mohammad Ali et al.
- Bangla Academy English-Bengali Dictionary (The Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1994) ed. Mohammad Ali et al.
- Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary (Sahitya Samsad, Kolkata, 2000)
- The modern Bengali dictionary for non-Bengali readers (The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 1999) Asit Kumar Bandyopadhyay
- Milet Bilingual Visual Dictionary (Bengali –English) (Milet Publishing) Jean-Claude Corbeil / Ariane Archambault
- Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Bengali (OUP) E C Parnwell
