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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The best-selling complete course for a fun and effective way to learn Bengali. This ISBN is for the paperback book. The corresponding audio support (ISBN: 9781444106961) is also available. The book and audio support can also be purchased as a pack (ISBN: 9781444106862).

About the Author

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'.