I had no idea NHK even had a Bengali section! I’ve definitely listened to the NHK News for Japanese so that’s another great tip! I’m definitely trying to figure out more stuff to listen/watch to. I’ll probably just get the audio from Forvo for now since I’m sure asking my fiancé’s family would have similar results + lots of stuff they’re dealing with lately so I wouldn’t want to ask anything of them right nowīangladesh in my case, but I’ll still keep her in mind! Thanks for the recommendation ^-^ I suppose that’s fair or them! Languages have a lot of vocabulary and I’m sure I’d be embarrassed if I knew lots of people were going to hear me say things, haha. What other materials are you using to practice?Īre you able to just add the audio column? Apparently Memrise doesn’t let me add columns on my own I also try to read Anandabajar occasionally but I find that quite hard. I am writing all the words down that I don’t know and have massively expanded my Bengali news words course as a result. It’s a Japanese news site, so I have also learned a lot about Japan(!), but they produce material in Bengali, and the podcast just reads out the top stories of the day word for word - so I can listen and also read the same news story in Bengali, which really helps. I have also found the Bengali language news on NHK to be quite helpful.

I always enjoy my conversations with her and it has really helped my listening skills. Not sure if you are connected with Bangladesh or West Bengal, but if the latter, then I can recommend Kushumika as a teacher on italki. I managed to get a native speaker to help with the common verbs 2 through a facebook page, but he didn’t seem that keen to do any more either. My husband did the numbers and basic verbs, can’t remember if he did any others, but he also then got fed up of me asking. (I did get my mother-in-law to record some words for the weather words course, but part way through she became embarrassed and wouldn’t do any more. That should give you the ability to add sound. Hope you see this - I have added you as a contributor to the pronouns & postpositions course. If you would like to help me record audio on a particular course, I’d be happy to add you as a contributor!ĭo stay in touch - and if anyone else spots errors or has suggestions, just let me know On the audio point, I don’t know that many native speakers willing to help me and at least when I started on this project (learning for 6 years now) Forvo didn’t have audio for lots of these words either. I share the courses publicly in the hopes that they might also help others, so it is good to know they are. There weren’t many courses on Bengali when I started on memrise and even now there aren’t too many with more advanced vocab. I try to read some Bengali every day and write down the words I don’t know and put them in a course so I can learn them. I make them to help myself in my quest to become fluent in reading and speaking Bengali. Wow, I didn’t realise anyone had made a forum topic just about my courses! I don’t look at the forums very often - well hardly ever - so apologies for not seeing this til now, and hope you see my reply.įirst, thanks for appreciating my courses.

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