Bengali Language Courses
Bengali is the official language of the world's most densely populated lands: Bangladesh (East Bengal) and West Bengal (a state in India). It is an Indo-European language, evolved from Sanskrit. The language of the famous metaphysical poet Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali is a treasure of great literature, theology, philosophy, and culture.
Bengali Course Offerings
Spring 2010 see course offerings
Elementary Bengali II, FL 295-006
Intermediate Bengali II, FL 295-008
For information about courses and registration, contact
Ms. Faye Walker, 515-9276, efwalker@social.chass.ncsu.edu or
Baishakhi Taylor, 668-2146, bbane2@duke.edu
Bengali at UNC and Duke through Inter-institutional Registration
Bengali
is also available to students at UNC and Duke through
inter-institutional registration. These students may elect to travel to
NCSU but if there is enough enrollment we will try to provide
video-conferencing to your campus. Here is how to register:
1.
Download this form: http://www.ncsu.edu/registrar/forms/pdf/iiregistration.pdf
2. Choose the course name and number you want:
Elementary Bengali I, FL 295-006
Intermediate Bengali I, FL 295-007
3. Fill out the form, obtain the appropriate signatures, and deliver or fax to the inter-institutional contact person on your own campus:
Duke Students, your form goes to:
Dawn Schaefer
705 Broad Street
Phone: (919) 684-4225
dawn.schaefer@duke.edu
UNC Students, your form goes to:
Daniel Collins
105 Hanes Hall
Phone: (919) 962-0505
daniel.collins@unc.edu
NC State Students, your form goes to:
Kia Bradsher
1000 Harris Hall
Phone: (919) 515-1496
kia_bradsher@ncsu.edu
4. Email Baishakhi Taylor (bbane2@duke.edu), notify me that you have registered, and tell me whether you plan to travel to NCSU or whether you would like video-conferencing. This must be arranged at least a month before the first day of class.
Other resources
Foreign Language Area Fellowships for Academic Year and Summer study which pay tuition and a stipend are available to Graduate Students who wish to study Bengali, both at Consortium colleges and at other institutions. See FLAS.
Additional links for the study of Bengali
Bangla online dictionaries
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/dictionary.php
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/dictionary.html
http://www.bangladict.org
Bengali language and script
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~achatt1/evolution.html
Introductory lessons
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/bengali_index.html
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/bengali/
Learn to read Bengali
http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zben01.htm
Bengali cooking
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~palwal/
http://www.calcuttaweb.com/recipes/
Alphabet and writing system
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/bengali.htm
Free bengali fonts
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/bengali.html
http://www.barnamala.com/badda/fonthelp.html
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/Lang/bengali.html
(Ekushey - an add-on for MS Word which enables you to type in Bengali or Assamese)
http://www.altruists.org/projects/ek/
BBC Worldservice in Bengali
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bengali/
Online Bengali magazines
http://www.parabaas.com
http://www.kheyal.com
http://ajantrik.8m.net
http://www.abasar.net
http://www.freewebs.com/guruchandali/
Viswayan - information about Bengali language, literature, drama, video, etc.
http://www.viswayan.com/
Send email in Indian languages, including Bengali
http://www.rediff.com
http://www.sify.com
http://www.banglaexpress.org