Registration

Each user needs to set up an unique identity on the system. Since we want to make sure that we can easily communicate with users, we have chosen an user's Email ID as the most practical and useful unique ID. The user's Name (separated as First Name and Last Name) is useful when communicating with them. Finally, we want to save the geographical location of a user to be sensitive to their time zone when communicating by phone or streaming video that may be useful for the learning process.

Please register by filling in the Registration form. Make sure that the email ID you enter is easily accessible to you. All system communications will be sent to this email. If an invalid email is entered, the registration will be immediately deleted.

The password should be more than 8 characters. Longer passwords are more secure. It is highly recommended that you choose an unique password for each site that you visit. Some people choose a phrase like "WhereTheMindIsWithoutFear" (a famous Tagore poem) so that they can easily remember their password. The password is not displayed on any online screen. In the Welcome email, only the first and last two characters are shown for security reasons. If you forget the password, you will have to register again, and all your usage history will be lost.

After successful registration, an email will be sent to you with Subject: Welcome to supriyosen.net to acknowledge successful registration, document your Profile and to provide a guide to the various capabilities of the site. Please save this email to remember your credentials. A database record is created on the supriyosen.net server to identify you for subsequent visits.

A registered user can use multiple devices and only needs to login from each device as necessary. For example, I use an iMac, an iPad, and an iPhone. For testing, I also have set up a Windows 10 and a Linux Ubuntu 14 under VirtualBox, an App that runs under Mac OS. Only one registration is required.

Since Registration sets up your profile, you should Register again if you want to change your Password, Name or Location. If you want to change your Email ID, you need to register as a new user. The history of your activities can be manually coordinated by sending an email to [email protected]

The registration record on the server will be removed after six months of inactivity or on your emailed request. Registered users will get an activity status report by email twice a month.

Login

For your convenience, the system has been designed to remember your Login credentials on any computer, tablet or smartphone for 90 days from your last visit. If you are a frequent visitor, you can expect to be "auto logged-in" and go directly to the site,

Browser settings on some computers may restricts how long login credentials will be remembered. Public computers like the local Library or Internet Cafes usually reset every day. In these cases, the auto-login will not be effective and you will have to Login every time.

If you are not auto logged-in when you access the site, please Login using the login panel.

Welcome to https://supriyosen.net

Teaching and facilitating the use of the বাংলা Bangla (Bengali) language on the Internet

1 - Casual Interest

You could be a current or potential visitor to "Bengal" or a friend of a Bengali. You may not want to invest a lot of time and effort, but you want to pick up some conversational snippets to gain some confidence in speaking to real people.

• Start with learning some common Words and Phrases using English Phonetic Represenation of Bangla alphabet
  Bangla For Visitors
  More Bangla for Visitors
• Make Simple Sentences in Bangla using English Phonetic Representation
  Quick Sentence Maker

2 - Learn Basics of Bangla Script and Pronunciation

This is important even for reading shop and street signs in Bengali speaking areas. To learn the Bangla script, the letters and words need to be presented with sound so that the learner can see and hear at the same time.

• Delve into the Alphabet, learning how each letter is pronounced, using Phonetic English
  The Bangla Alphabet and Numbers

3 - Learn to Make Sentences

At this stage, people usually enrolled in classroom courses. With the advent of internet learning, online courses, like this site, are filling the void.

• Make simple sentences like "I will eat rice" using Pronouns, Verbs and Nouns. This will give you insight into the Subject-Object-Verb structure of Bangla sentences
  Quick Sentence Maker for simple sentences
• There are rules for using various Parts of Speech like Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Determiners to form grammatically correct sentences. These rules are summarized here
  Bangla Rules! 10 Rules to Perfect Conversational Sentences

4 - Express Yourself with Bangla Writing

Considerable effort is spent creating Bangla text using the universal English ("Latin") keyboard. Most people learn a way (using a software key mapping) to type Bangla text. These Input Method Editors (IMEs) are different across computers, so your carefully learned Mac scheme will not be usable when you use the PC in the local Public Library. Bangla is phonetically consistent. Two methods of writing Bangla which work exactly the same across all platforms

• If you know Bangla, can recognize proper Bangla Spelling, and want to maintain the flexibility of occasionally forming Bangla Compound consonants by yourself, the fastest input method is
  GoogVisual - Writing Bangla Phonetically with Auto-correction
• For the new learner, who wants to maintain the Phonetic English text and the generated Bangla, and would like to see spellcheck prediction, use
  Phonetic Bangla Writer - Writing Bangla Phonetically with dictionary lookup and lookahead spelling suggestions

4 - Take a Complete Course in Bangla - On the internet, anytime, anyplace

This "Guided Course" is intended to take the learner through a journey of learning the Bangla Alphabet followed by the Rules of Grammar that are needed to become adept at Conversational Bangla. Videos have been added to help the learner with the correct pronunciation of the words and sentences that are used in these lessons.

• Guided Course-Learn the Alphabet & Conversational Bangla

5 - Actively Read, Write, Hear and Increase your Knowledge of Bangla

If you live in Bangladesh or West Bengal, your knowledge of Bangla would surely grow through the process of immersion. But many new learners do not live in a Bangla speaking region in the World.
Here is a growing portal of Bangla links for users to experience Bangla Literature, Newspapers, Nagazines, Music, Videos, Movies to stimulate the "Bangali" in you!
Practice makes Perfect