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Are you looking for a complete course in Bengali which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Bengali will guarantee success! Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course. The course is structured in thematic units and the emphasis is placed on communication, so that you effortlessly progress from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations, to using the phone and talking about work. The course is available as a book (9781444106060), as a pack comprising the book and double CD (9781444106862) and as a double CD (9781444106961).

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Author:   William Radice ,  Various
Publisher:   John Murray Press
Imprint:   Teach Yourself
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.104kg
ISBN:  

9781444106961

ISBN 10:   1444106961
Publication Date:   31 December 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

: Preface : Script diagrams : Part One: Sounds and script : Review of part one : Part Two: Conversation and grammar : Finding out about someone : Talking to a rickshawallah : Buying fruit and vegetables : Finding out about schools : Arranging a visit : Health and diet : Meeting an artist : Talking to a child : Conversation on a train : Telling stories : Meeting a writer : Learning Bengali : Review of Part Two : Part Three: Literature : The tailor-bird and the cat : Sakuntala : Satyajit Ray : Tagore in England : The Bangladesh War : Shamsur Rahman : The coming of the monsoon : Jibanananda Das : Review of Part Three : Key to the exercises : Glossary : Grammatical index

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William Radice is Senior Lecturer in Bengali at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has pursued a double career as a poet and as a scholar and translator of Bengali, and has written or edited more than twenty-five books. He has given numerous lectures and poetry readings in Britain and overseas, and has been awarded literary prizes in India and Bangladesh. For the last three years he has written a fortnightly column for the Statesman newspaper in India, and has been a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2 s early morning 'Pause for Thought'.

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