Hello from Canada. I am studying Bengali as well. Bengali poetry is especially beautiful to my ear. When I was very young in the 1950s I studied a poem by Tagore called Moja Desh and I remember it to this day. I would love to find it in print again so I could read it and confirm my memory at age 72.
@@QwertyUiop-rp6nc Hello Steven, I hope you’re well. I couldn’t help but wonder if this was the কবিতা that fuels your nostalgia: মজার দেশ - যোগীন্দ্রনাথ সরকার এক যে আছে মজার দেশ, সব রকমে ভালো, রাত্তিরেতে বেজায় রোদ, দিনে চাঁদের আলো ! আকাশ সেথা সবুজবরণ গাছের পাতা নীল; ডাঙ্গায় চরে রুই কাতলা জলের মাঝে চিল ! সেই দেশেতে বেড়াল পালায়, নেংটি-ইঁদুর দেখে; ছেলেরা খায় ‘ক্যাস্টর-অয়েল’ -রসগোল্লা রেখে ! মণ্ডা-মিঠাই তেতো সেথা, ওষুধ লাগে ভালো; অন্ধকারটা সাদা দেখায়, সাদা জিনিস কালো ! ছেলেরা সব খেলা ফেলে বই নে বসে পড়ে; মুখে লাগাম দিয়ে ঘোড়া লোকের পিঠে চড়ে ! ঘুড়ির হাতে বাঁশের লাটাই, উড়তে থাকে ছেলে; বড়শি দিয়ে মানুষ গাঁথে, মাছেরা ছিপ্ ফেলে ! জিলিপি সে তেড়ে এসে, কামড় দিতে চায়; কচুরি আর রসগোল্লা ছেলে ধরে খায় ! পায়ে ছাতি দিয়ে লোকে হাতে হেঁটে চলে ! ডাঙ্গায় ভাসে নৌকা-জাহাজ, গাড়ি ছোটে জলে ! মজার দেশের মজার কথা বলবো কত আর; চোখ খুললে যায় না দেখা মুদলে পরিষ্কার ! This poem, as I’m sure you were able to read, was actually by Jogindranath Sarkar, and not Rabindranath Thakur. It is for this reason that I have a slight doubt as to whether this is the same poem, but I hope you enjoyed the read regardless!
Wow! নমস্কার ! There are so few foreign learners of Bengali it's fantastic to see you. Subscribed! 1:20 100% There are so many more resources for learning Hindi than Bengali 😪😪 I made a video showing the resources I use. Unfortunately Bengali isn't on Duolingo but I found it on another app which is very similar, called Ming. 2:40 the Complete book is what I use although yours looks bigger than mine. This is mainly how I have been teaching myself Bengali. 1:50 I am in the same boat! This is also why I learn. From my point of view, in terms of knowing Bengali and finding Hindi easier (note: I am very much a beginner at Bengali, and I know basically no Hindi), there are lots of crossover words but I find that being able to read Bangla script really helps lean Hindi script. I did the Hindi course on Duolingo for a few days just to see how far I could get based solely on the fact that I can read/write Bangla script. I got surprisingly far! The scripts are so similar 😁😁 5:35 🏆in my case, learning how to read definitely improved my pronunciation, great idea!
From my experience, Hindi is definitely easier to learn after having a foundation of Bengali. I've picked it up a lot faster than I did with Bangla when I was first learning. But I imagine it would be easier the other way around if you learn Hindi first, then it would be really easy to learn Bengali. I am finding the gendered language of Hindi a lot more difficult than Bengali that doesn't have genders or 'to be' verbs. Great to connect with other bideshi Bangla speakers!
Ok so bengali is my mother tongue and while I’m technically bengali and all I don’t understand anything about the language at all. At most my comprehension of bengali is around the age of a 9 year old child… god
Wow! Amazing! It's great to see the kind of effort that you are putting in to learn Bengali. Appreciate it very much. I highly recommend "Borno porichoi" and "Shohoj Path". These two books are the best for learning Bengali. You may also wanna check out "A Grammar of the Bengal Language" by Nathaniel Brassey Halhead. Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark has got an excellent course on spoken Bengali which can be of great help as well. Dhonnobad! Onek onek shubhechha roilo. 🙏
Both my parents are from Bangladesh, but I was born and spent about 1/2 my childhood in the States. My dad works for a global non-profit so the other half was spent around the world, with 2 in New Delhi. It’s very true that knowing Bengali makes Hindi easier, but not the other way around. When I first moved to Delhi around the age of 16, I was able to pick up simple phrases within the first couple of days; meanwhile I knew someone who was a native Hindi speaker with some family in West Bengal, who always mentioned how hard Bengali was. I don’t know 100% why but as I understand it, the reason is because Bengali is relatively older/closer to Sanskrit. And there’s really no shame in not knowing how to read it, I can’t, and my mom lost a lot of her reading ability despite growing up in Bangladesh and studying Bengali literature in college. I also learned a while back that not only does my Bengali have a pretty strong American accent, but it’s also twinged with the regional accent from Chittagong, where my folks are from. Best comparison I can think of would be if someone with parents from the Deep South grew up in Germany and was only really exposed to English at home, around half the time - imagine that accent.
Hi Alaina. So glad I came across your channel today. I'm also an American married to a Bengali and living in Kolkata. I moved here almost 12 years ago but my Bengali is no where near where it should be after that time. My spouse and I mainly speak in English because he is much better at learning languages than I am and picked it up so fast. He also doesn't read or write Bengali (his schooling was in Hindi) so I get to at least read for him when he needs it. I am currently trying to learn Hindi but keep mixing the two together. 🙃 Looking forward to seeing how you progress. Wish I would have kept up with the actual studying after the first couple years!
Alaina, it's a great thing that you're trying to learn Bengali. Don't get intimidated by the process, and all the best for your endeavours of learning the language.
Your handwriting is better than at least half of the Bengalis out there💪👍! Best of luck! And yes, if you learn Bangla, you'll quickly get into the Hindi language.
so proud to see this, keep it up bengali language is quite forgiving so you surely will nail the basics in no time keep practicing I am sure you will succeed
Wow such great help! I'm also Bengali but trying to write it! I should use my rough copy to learn it! Thx so much Alaina!!!!!!! And yes, when you get used to write and say Bengali you will definitely learn Hindi.
The first book I was introduced to was Borno Porichoy ..helped me a great deal... of course I grew up in a Railway Colony where I interacted with so many Bengalis.. so grateful.
you can try benglish = bengali + english like writing bengali in english alphabet, also reading bengali newspaper you will figure that letters are almost same as hindi, try to watch bangla movies and serials as much
Hi UR friend from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 Just saw your vlog on learning bengali, congratulations and good for you 👍 I'm like your husband just cannot read and write but just speak, mainly because growing up in India I attended English medium school and college and hindi was my 2nd language because I went to boarding school in Ranchi Bihar. Then I moved to Canada after my marriage and English became the primary language, with spoken bengali at home. Good luck 👍
Yk a great learning source is like if u live in india go to a book store of something and try and find kids books that they teach in schools with its acually pretty good for learning bengali it also has little stories and poems to read
Brilliant initiative 👍. Just try to speak in Bengali with ur husband at home, he will guide you enough to understand and by this u will have the fluency in Bengali and after sometime in Hindi too and by this you can enrich your CV as well 😅
Hey , I'm a native Bengali speaker. Glad to see that , Americans also interested to learn Bengali language 😍. But I want to exchange language if you want, you will teach me English and i will teach you Bengali. Let's learn..
please teach me bengali! i'm originally from US but my parents are from India. So I speak Hindi but I find Bengali to be especially like SO pretty lol. let's be friends please =) Apni bangla basha bolte pari, khub!!! so great =)
Listen Bengali songs and memorize them .... Learn some proverbs..... Focus on the meaning of the sentence.... Watch Bengali movies with subtitles, pause and rewind multiple times to listen and understand the dialogues... It will be the best organic process .... And speak(practice) as much as possible.... . It will take time but you will be very fluent at the end .... Learn writing after that... 👍👍👍👍
@@BengaliMcGinley really... wow.. what made you interested in bengali ?? Let me guess, you are going to visit West Bengal or Bangladesh.... like British and American English, Bengali of two bengals are different...
I will be very candid here unless you require to read or write in Bengali in the future learning how to write the Bengali alphabets or the grammar will come into very little use , just like your spouse though I am a Bengali I can hardly read or write Bengali due to my convent school background, I can speak Bengali fluently because I grew up with Bengali as my mother tongue so what I am trying to say you can learn fastest spoken Bengali if your husband , in-laws speak to you in bengali every time you talk to them , at first it will be hard for you to understand but gradually you will start picking up the words and sentences and their meaning which will be the doorway for you to master the dialect
I think if you grow up learning Bangla, and you never read/write, then it might seem pointless to learn (because you didn't learn). But as a foreign learner I found that reading/writing helped with pronunciation and was a great foundation to build upon 😃😃
Hey Alaina I forgot to tell ya that the Mega Trade Fair is happenin at The Science City opposite ITC ..there are stalls from Bangkok, Afghanistan,Turkey , Bangladesh and Egypt. Do visit👍
Hey Alaina, just a note, saying namashkar, is religion related, and most of the Bengali speaking population is Muslim, so instead of the Hindu greeting, it would be better to go with the Muslim greeting of Assalamualaikum.
Please buy a book name "Bornoporichoy" or "বর্নপরিচয়" all WestBengal,India childrlearns learn this book, I also learned from this book when i was child. Cause this is a Besic book
so your husband is originally from West Bengal? Do you speak any other languages or you have studied other languages perhaps? i agree that many similarities do exist with Hindi and Bengali so you will definitely pick up one easily when you learn more in the other =)
Hello from Canada. I am studying Bengali as well. Bengali poetry is especially beautiful to my ear. When I was very young in the 1950s I studied a poem by Tagore called Moja Desh and I remember it to this day. I would love to find it in print again so I could read it and confirm my memory at age 72.
That's so beautiful
Hi
You want this language
Moja Desh - Rabindranath can't wrote this poem as soon as possible. What is the summary of this poem?
@@QwertyUiop-rp6nc Hello Steven, I hope you’re well. I couldn’t help but wonder if this was the কবিতা that fuels your nostalgia:
মজার দেশ - যোগীন্দ্রনাথ সরকার
এক যে আছে মজার দেশ, সব রকমে ভালো,
রাত্তিরেতে বেজায় রোদ, দিনে চাঁদের আলো !
আকাশ সেথা সবুজবরণ গাছের পাতা নীল;
ডাঙ্গায় চরে রুই কাতলা জলের মাঝে চিল !
সেই দেশেতে বেড়াল পালায়, নেংটি-ইঁদুর দেখে;
ছেলেরা খায় ‘ক্যাস্টর-অয়েল’ -রসগোল্লা রেখে !
মণ্ডা-মিঠাই তেতো সেথা, ওষুধ লাগে ভালো;
অন্ধকারটা সাদা দেখায়, সাদা জিনিস কালো !
ছেলেরা সব খেলা ফেলে বই নে বসে পড়ে;
মুখে লাগাম দিয়ে ঘোড়া লোকের পিঠে চড়ে !
ঘুড়ির হাতে বাঁশের লাটাই, উড়তে থাকে ছেলে;
বড়শি দিয়ে মানুষ গাঁথে, মাছেরা ছিপ্ ফেলে !
জিলিপি সে তেড়ে এসে, কামড় দিতে চায়;
কচুরি আর রসগোল্লা ছেলে ধরে খায় !
পায়ে ছাতি দিয়ে লোকে হাতে হেঁটে চলে !
ডাঙ্গায় ভাসে নৌকা-জাহাজ, গাড়ি ছোটে জলে !
মজার দেশের মজার কথা বলবো কত আর;
চোখ খুললে যায় না দেখা মুদলে পরিষ্কার !
This poem, as I’m sure you were able to read, was actually by Jogindranath Sarkar, and not Rabindranath Thakur. It is for this reason that I have a slight doubt as to whether this is the same poem, but I hope you enjoyed the read regardless!
HI IAM FROM BANGLADESH AND REALLY GLAD TO SEE THAT AMERICANS ARE LEARNING BENGALI☺☺☺
Wow! নমস্কার ! There are so few foreign learners of Bengali it's fantastic to see you. Subscribed!
1:20 100% There are so many more resources for learning Hindi than Bengali 😪😪 I made a video showing the resources I use. Unfortunately Bengali isn't on Duolingo but I found it on another app which is very similar, called Ming. 2:40 the Complete book is what I use although yours looks bigger than mine. This is mainly how I have been teaching myself Bengali.
1:50 I am in the same boat! This is also why I learn.
From my point of view, in terms of knowing Bengali and finding Hindi easier (note: I am very much a beginner at Bengali, and I know basically no Hindi), there are lots of crossover words but I find that being able to read Bangla script really helps lean Hindi script. I did the Hindi course on Duolingo for a few days just to see how far I could get based solely on the fact that I can read/write Bangla script. I got surprisingly far! The scripts are so similar 😁😁
5:35 🏆in my case, learning how to read definitely improved my pronunciation, great idea!
From my experience, Hindi is definitely easier to learn after having a foundation of Bengali. I've picked it up a lot faster than I did with Bangla when I was first learning. But I imagine it would be easier the other way around if you learn Hindi first, then it would be really easy to learn Bengali. I am finding the gendered language of Hindi a lot more difficult than Bengali that doesn't have genders or 'to be' verbs. Great to connect with other bideshi Bangla speakers!
Ok so bengali is my mother tongue and while I’m technically bengali and all I don’t understand anything about the language at all. At most my comprehension of bengali is around the age of a 9 year old child… god
you'll learn Alina .. bengali is sweetest and easiest language 😊😊
Sohoj noy😂 bes kothin english speaker der jonno😁
Sweetest, yes. Easiest, not at all! 😭
না ভুল
@@aridos2779 yes
No such thing as easy languages
Wow! Amazing! It's great to see the kind of effort that you are putting in to learn Bengali. Appreciate it very much. I highly recommend "Borno porichoi" and "Shohoj Path". These two books are the best for learning Bengali. You may also wanna check out "A Grammar of the Bengal Language" by Nathaniel Brassey Halhead. Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark has got an excellent course on spoken Bengali which can be of great help as well. Dhonnobad! Onek onek shubhechha roilo. 🙏
খুব ভালো লাগলো যে তুমি এত effort দিচ্ছ একটা language কে শিখতে(Good to see your effort to learn the Bengali in such a way)
আস্সালামুআলাইকুম, খুব খুশি হয়েছি বাংলা ভাষার প্রতি আপনার আগ্রহ এবং ভালোবাসা দেখে। অনেক অনেক শুভকামনা রইলো, ধন্যবাদ।
I appreciate ur effort Alaina... All d best... U can do that... আপনি নিশ্চই পারবেন।।।
Both my parents are from Bangladesh, but I was born and spent about 1/2 my childhood in the States. My dad works for a global non-profit so the other half was spent around the world, with 2 in New Delhi. It’s very true that knowing Bengali makes Hindi easier, but not the other way around. When I first moved to Delhi around the age of 16, I was able to pick up simple phrases within the first couple of days; meanwhile I knew someone who was a native Hindi speaker with some family in West Bengal, who always mentioned how hard Bengali was. I don’t know 100% why but as I understand it, the reason is because Bengali is relatively older/closer to Sanskrit. And there’s really no shame in not knowing how to read it, I can’t, and my mom lost a lot of her reading ability despite growing up in Bangladesh and studying Bengali literature in college. I also learned a while back that not only does my Bengali have a pretty strong American accent, but it’s also twinged with the regional accent from Chittagong, where my folks are from. Best comparison I can think of would be if someone with parents from the Deep South grew up in Germany and was only really exposed to English at home, around half the time - imagine that accent.
Hi Alaina. So glad I came across your channel today. I'm also an American married to a Bengali and living in Kolkata. I moved here almost 12 years ago but my Bengali is no where near where it should be after that time. My spouse and I mainly speak in English because he is much better at learning languages than I am and picked it up so fast. He also doesn't read or write Bengali (his schooling was in Hindi) so I get to at least read for him when he needs it. I am currently trying to learn Hindi but keep mixing the two together. 🙃 Looking forward to seeing how you progress. Wish I would have kept up with the actual studying after the first couple years!
That's so great! I would love to meet you some day! Do you have an Instagram? I can dm you my info so we can stay in touch.
Good luck with your learning!
@@alainatoday8519 just sent you a message on IG. 🙂
Alaina, it's a great thing that you're trying to learn Bengali. Don't get intimidated by the process, and all the best for your endeavours of learning the language.
Im studying Bangla for my hubby! I wish I found you sooner! I've struggled for years to learn ugh lol
Great to see that you are learning bengali language. Kudos to you..
Your handwriting is better than at least half of the Bengalis out there💪👍! Best of luck! And yes, if you learn Bangla, you'll quickly get into the Hindi language.
so proud to see this, keep it up bengali language is quite forgiving so you surely will nail the basics in no time keep practicing I am sure you will succeed
Wow such great help! I'm also Bengali but trying to write it! I should use my rough copy to learn it! Thx so much Alaina!!!!!!! And yes, when you get used to write and say Bengali you will definitely learn Hindi.
first 😊😊 really appreciate for frequent vlog .. keep it up 👍🏼😊
Great. Really good to see your dedication for learning bengali. Wish u best of luck. U will learn Bengali very soon.
The first book I was introduced to was Borno Porichoy ..helped me a great deal... of course I grew up in a Railway Colony where I interacted with so many Bengalis.. so grateful.
Great initiative my sister....!!! I salute your courage.....👍👍 Wish you good luck for your new venture...... 🙏🙏
Thanks for this video! I will check out those books. I'm kind of in the same situation learning Bengali.
Your handwriting is so beautiful! Nd appreciate your effort
Your motive is contagious . God bless you . You are looking pretty as always.
Wow..very nice ..all the best Alina 👍
I'm also trying to learn Bengali! :) hopefully I can find someone to learn with me!
Thats cool. Wow. Keep it up👍
Wow beautiful sharing ma ❤😍
All the best 👍🏻, Alina. 😊😊 Keep it up.
I am very happy to see you for learning bengali 😍
you can try benglish = bengali + english like writing bengali in english alphabet, also reading bengali newspaper you will figure that letters are almost same as hindi, try to watch bangla movies and serials as much
আপনি বাংলা শিখছেন এটা দেখে দরুন লাগলো অ্যালাইনা।
I can read most of this, I think! But I still do not understand what it says yet
@@alainatoday8519 he is saying Alaina ,it feels great to me that you are learning Bengali
Bangladeshi Bangla is better Than West Bengal Bangla😌
Plz share your love story. How you met a Bengali guy in USA.
Hi UR friend from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦
Just saw your vlog on learning bengali, congratulations and good for you 👍
I'm like your husband just cannot read and write but just speak, mainly because growing up in India I attended English medium school and college and hindi was my 2nd language because I went to boarding school in Ranchi Bihar. Then I moved to Canada after my marriage and English became the primary language, with spoken bengali at home.
Good luck 👍
Thank you!
Wow I'm trying to learn Bengali but I can't but you are awesome ❣️🌻
Yk a great learning source is like if u live in india go to a book store of something and try and find kids books that they teach in schools with its acually pretty good for learning bengali it also has little stories and poems to read
Merry Christmas🌲 Alaina
Learning Bengali for every Bengali starts with Rabindranath Tagore and IshwarChandra Vidyasagar...
Yes.bornoporichay and sahaj path our first step
I have recently got a book out to learn Bengali as well. So in a way we are starting our journey together
Great!
All the best👍👍👍👍👍
From where can I get that red Bengali learning book in Pakistan ??
Brilliant initiative 👍. Just try to speak in Bengali with ur husband at home, he will guide you enough to understand and by this u will have the fluency in Bengali and after sometime in Hindi too and by this you can enrich your CV as well 😅
So proud of you 👍
I really wanna learn Bengali because there's a book in Bengali that has a wealth of knowledge but there's no translation in any other language.
Lots of love ❤️❤️❤️
Hey , I'm a native Bengali speaker. Glad to see that , Americans also interested to learn Bengali language 😍. But I want to exchange language if you want, you will teach me English and i will teach you Bengali. Let's learn..
please teach me bengali! i'm originally from US but my parents are from India. So I speak Hindi but I find Bengali to be especially like SO pretty lol. let's be friends please =) Apni bangla basha bolte pari, khub!!! so great =)
Listen Bengali songs and memorize them .... Learn some proverbs..... Focus on the meaning of the sentence.... Watch Bengali movies with subtitles, pause and rewind multiple times to listen and understand the dialogues... It will be the best organic process .... And speak(practice) as much as possible.... . It will take time but you will be very fluent at the end .... Learn writing after that... 👍👍👍👍
আমার প্রিয় গান Geeta Dutt Tumi Je Amar 😁😁
@@BengaliMcGinley really... wow.. what made you interested in bengali ?? Let me guess, you are going to visit West Bengal or Bangladesh.... like British and American English, Bengali of two bengals are different...
hi i am from west bengal i know how to speak bengali very good
I will be very candid here unless you require to read or write in Bengali in the future learning how to write the Bengali alphabets or the grammar will come into very little use , just like your spouse though I am a Bengali I can hardly read or write Bengali due to my convent school background, I can speak Bengali fluently because I grew up with Bengali as my mother tongue so what I am trying to say you can learn fastest spoken Bengali if your husband , in-laws speak to you in bengali every time you talk to them , at first it will be hard for you to understand but gradually you will start picking up the words and sentences and their meaning which will be the doorway for you to master the dialect
I think if you grow up learning Bangla, and you never read/write, then it might seem pointless to learn (because you didn't learn). But as a foreign learner I found that reading/writing helped with pronunciation and was a great foundation to build upon 😃😃
So proud of you 👍😚
You can..l appreciate your effort
Hi
You can speaking Bangla???
Hi Alaina, the shirt you wore is really looking good on you.
Aliana I am bengali teacher.can I teach foreign country.
Hey Alaina I forgot to tell ya that the Mega Trade Fair is happenin at The Science City opposite ITC ..there are stalls from Bangkok, Afghanistan,Turkey , Bangladesh and Egypt. Do visit👍
That's so cool! Do you know what day it ends?
@@alainatoday8519 2 jan..
Hey Alaina, just a note, saying namashkar, is religion related, and most of the Bengali speaking population is Muslim, so instead of the Hindu greeting, it would be better to go with the Muslim greeting of Assalamualaikum.
You should join class of Ramakrishna mission institute of culture in golpark, Calcutta.you would be a master in Bengali.
Please buy a book name "Bornoporichoy" or "বর্নপরিচয়" all WestBengal,India childrlearns learn this book, I also learned from this book when i was child. Cause this is a Besic book
Good video 🇧🇩
Nice vlog ❤️
congratulation.
nice to see my state national language 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
so your husband is originally from West Bengal? Do you speak any other languages or you have studied other languages perhaps? i agree that many similarities do exist with Hindi and Bengali so you will definitely pick up one easily when you learn more in the other =)
Merry Christmas🌲🥰 Alaina from Myslf priya and Raina my daughter🥰
I think u should start with the words fisrt.. .... i mean the common bangali words...
Can you help me to speak fluently spoken English
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as a british bengaili this is accurate
I am Bengali
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I speak hindi bengali English 😅
why the difference it is bcoz of ghoti bangaal difference 🙂 ask your teacher 🙂
Then I also help you to speak and write bengali
I consider you more Bengali than many so called Bengalis. Hindi is not that much artistic language as Bengali.
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I think you should listen bengali first , then start speaking
I would suggest the Pimsleur course. never , ever learn from your partner......
I would! Unfortunately, Bengali is not on their list to learn 😔
@@alainatoday8519 really ? Even Thai is available with only a population of 70 million. Wonder if Assimil has anything
@@little_engine_goes_to_Thailand yes! I know! I just doubled checked and no, they don't have it available 😩
You have to take effort on handwriting i am also beginner but take efforts on handwrting