Bangla alphabet
First-year: Epar Bangla Opar Bangla: Bangla across Borders! by Carol Salomon, Nandini Abedin, & Klaus Brandl
licensing: University of Washington Introduction to Bengali: Part I, by Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Somdev Bhattacharji, & Suhas Chatterjee (Delhi: Manohar & Am. Inst. of Indian Studies) buy: South Asia Books view online: The University of Chicago, Digital South Asia Library download* dialogs & vocabulary in Bangla script: download 190KB audio files (mp3 format): Indiana University, Center for Language Technology
Introduction to Bengali: Part II, by Somdev Bhattacharji (reader to accompany Part I) download 3.3MB
Bengali: A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself Books), by William Radice (London: Hodder & Stoughton) buy: Amazon.com
Online Bangla course from Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata: Bangla Online
Second-year: Bengali Prose Reader for Second-Year Students, by Edward C. Dimock, Jr. & Somdev Bhattacharji with Ronald Inden, Arati John, & Clinton B. Seely download 3.9MB
Intermediate Bangla, by Clinton B. Seely download 4.5MB
Bengali Reference Grammar, by W.L. Smith (Stockholm: Association of Oriental Studies)
Bengali: A Comprehensive Grammar, by Hanne-Ruth Thompson (Routledge) buy: Amazon.com
Advanced levels: Bengali Vaisnava Lyrics: a reader for advanced students, by Edward C. Dimock, Jr. & Roushan Jahan download 1.4MB
Dictionaries: Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary, compiled by Sailendra Biswas, revised by Subodhchandra Sengupta (Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad) use online: The University of Chicago, Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Bangla Academy Bengali-English Dictionary, compiled by Latifur Rahman & Jahangir Tareque; edited by Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, & Jahangir Tareque (Dhaka: Bangla Academy)
Samsad Common Words Dictionary [English-Bengali] edited by Anjali Bose (Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad)
Samsad Bangala Abhidhan, compiled by Sailendra Biswas, revised by Shashibhushan Dasgupta and Dineshchandra Bhattacharya (Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad) use online: The University of Chicago, Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Note: The first three dictionaries listed above are recommended for the learner of the language and for everyday use thereafter. Samsad publishes a larger English-Bengali dictionary that is not recommended for English speakers. It tends to give somewhat longer definitions in Bangla rather than concise Bangla equivalents for the English word under consideration. For the more advanced student, there is the fourth entry above. Another Bangla-Bangla dictionary as well as a dictionary specifically for indicating pronunciation will in the future become available online at The University of Chicago, Digital Dictionaries of South Asia Bangla UNICODE fonts: available free & downloadable at The University of Chicago, South Asia Language Resource Center
Facts and figures pertaining to the language: Wikipedia
*The downloadable files are free. They come compressed in "zip" format to download more readily and in Adobe(Tm) Acrobat format for viewing. Stuffit(Tm) Expander, free on the web, will let you "unzip" the files. Acrobat Reader, also free on the web, will let you view the files on your computer.
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