Bengali as a Third Language

For many years we have been working on the pedagogic  aspects of teaching Bengali as a Third language. Bengali is not a difficult language. The pronunciation in  Bengali follows its orthography. But there are two difficult    aspects in Bengali. The first difficulty is the presence of about half a thousand    conjunct consonant letters. The second difficulty is due to the absence of the first   vowel-sign in Bengali orthography.

By use of hemeneutic-phenomenographic method, by  which you can teach everybody everything, we have now  solved the problem. (J. Computers and the Humanities, 33(3), 241-245, 1999). We have dissected all conjunct letters which are not used  as initial letters in Bengali word-building. We use the (') apostrophe sign for the unborn first Bengali vowel as an adhoc solution and in accordance with Bengali orthographic  rule. The apostrophe sign is not used for Genitive in  Bengali. It is used to show a missing letter in a word and    already in use here and there. Thus we could decrease the number of letters and signs in  Bengali limited to 108 only (including 10 for digits and 20 for punctuation signs).

Please have a look at   Bengali Letters   Conjunct Letters   Word Building   Modern Textbook in             Bengali   as Foreign Language    by Khaleda Beena et al. ISBN 9197342041 Printed by Inform Trycket, Göteborg, Sweden Published by Bengaliska Magasinet, Göteborg, Sweden May 2000

MODERN TEXTBOOK IN          BENGALI AS     FOREIGN LANGUAGE We shall be obliged if you express your opinion and write to us khaleda_beena@hotmail.com

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