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Meera wrote:You should learn Bengali with us
I recomend using both Colloquial and TY Bengali.
The TY is good but very challenging and not very user freindly. For example he doesn't even put vocabulary after the dialouges! and I have no idea why he romanzied all the grammar sections.
Bengali is a bit harder than Hindi/Urdu I think because the script isn't always phonetic.
But it might be eaiser for you because it has many more sanskritic words than Hindi/Urdu
Meera wrote:The TY is good but very challenging and not very user freindly. For example he doesn't even put vocabulary after the dialouges! and I have no idea why he romanzied all the grammar sections.
vijayjohn wrote:I think I'd love to do that!
Bijlee wrote:Meera wrote:The TY is good but very challenging and not very user freindly. For example he doesn't even put vocabulary after the dialouges! and I have no idea why he romanzied all the grammar sections.
I think he did it since it's hard to predict the sounds sometimes. Though then I don't see why he wouldn't add it for the dialogues too... But yeah, not having the vocab sucks. I'm constantly having to go back and forth from the glossary back to the dialogues. Have you seen Complete Bengali? I wonder if they decided to fix that.
I would have been so lost learning Bengali with TY if I hadn't known some Hindi first; I remember doing a lot of guessing based off what I knew about Hindi. But it's a great book even so!
Meera wrote:I honestly don't think I could get through that TY if I had no knowledge of hindi/urdu. It would be extreamly challenging. The only TY is good is because there is so little for Bengali.
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