Learn to Read, Write and Enjoy বাংলা [Bangla] Online

Welcome to https://supriyosen.net

This site is designed and developed for those who know English and aspire to learn, write and practice conversational Bangla.

1. Ready to use 24/7, from anywhere in the world as long as you have an Internet connection or Wi-Fi
2. The software can run on any modern Desktop, Laptop, Tablet or Smartphone with Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS or Android
3. The software never has to be installed or maintained by the learner - it is all on the server

There are 1693 Registrants from 60 Countries. The Last 20 Visitors are ...

Click on About Registrants to see a summary of where registrants live, and a short Bangla video about each country.

What Bangla Can You Learn on this Site?

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 Representation 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
  Google Writer - 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

5 - 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

6 - 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

The contents of this site are listed in more detail at About This Site.

If you are not sure that you can entrust your Bangla learning to me, you can check me out by clicking on About Me.

Thank you for visiting this site. If I can help you in any way in your quest to learn and use Bangla, send me a comment by clicking on Mail to Supriyo Sen. I want to make your Bangla experience a most positive one.

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