Learn Bengali in India

  India

Jaipur

Description: Bengali language - Bengali or Bangla is an Indigenous language of the eastern South Asia region known as Bengal. At present, this region includes Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Bengali declared national and official language of Bangladesh and is one of the 23 national languages acknowledged by the Republic of India.In India, it is the official language of the state of West Bengal and the co-official language of the state of Tripura, Cachar District of southern Assam and the union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Bengali was also made an official language of Sierra Leone with the purpose to pay tribute to the Bangladeshi peacekeeping force from the United Nations stationed there. Bengali with 200 million speakers is the fifth most widely spoken language of the world, after Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu). In India alone, there are 70 milllion Bengali speakers, who made it the second most commonly spoken language in the country. Outside Bangladesh and India, Bengali is also spoken in Nepal, Singapore, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the USA. Across all countries where Bengali is spoken, an additional 5 million people speak it as a second language.

Bengali is an Indo-European language that belongs to the Bengali-Assamese group of Eastern Zone languages within the Indo-Aryan subfamily, hence, it is closely related to Assamese and Oriya. The main dialects of Bengali are; Central or Standard Bengali, Western Bengali (Kharia Thar, Mal Paharia, Saraki), Southwestern Bengali, Northern Bengali (Koch, Siripuria), Rajbangsi, Bahe, Eastern Bengali, Haijong, Southeastern Bengali (Chakma), Ganda, Vanga, Chittagonian.

Historically it has evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pali and Sanskrit languages, but it has developed its own writing script, known as Bangla or as Kutila-lipi or 'crooked script'. Though it highly resembles the Devanagari script of Hindi, Sanskrit, and other related Indic languages, it does not follow the grammatical rules of these languages. It has freed itself from grammatical gender and fixed stress on the initial syllable of a word or phrase.The Bengali script consists of 12 vowel graphemes and 52 consonant graphemes and is written left to right. Bengali is also a source for some other related languages in the region, like Assamese and Meithei that use the Bengali script with minor modifications. The national anthems of both India and Bangladesh were written in Bengali by renowned scholar Rabindranath Tagore.

Highlights: We, at Indo Vacations have designed a special course in Bengali Language Course that helps you to learn this fantastic language. While designing this course we have taken greatest care of the fact, that this course is intended for people or students who do not belong to the Bengali speaking regions. This course has planned in association with experienced instructors, who have expertise in teaching foreign students whose native language is not Bengali. This course has planned with enough flexibility in terms of duration that mainly depends on the interest of student and the availability of trainer. This course is an individual course, means you will get lessons by a personal trainer. You are free to ask questions, take your time at the exercises and practice the sentences as long as you and your teachers are satisfied with the pronunciation. Normally these classes run five days in a week with daily sessions of 5 hours. The daily classes are divided in two sessions pre lunch and post lunch session. However, the timing can be rearranged by your trainer with your consent. Our language program is an inclusive program that includes your accommodation also. We normally arrange your accommodation within 10 minute reaching time to your teacher. This will facilitate better coordination between you and your trainer and save your time and money as well. For accommodation, we provide you the different options; stay with an Indian family or choose a guesthouse or plain guest accommodation. We generally suggest you to stay with local family so that you get better environment for learning the language. You will learn a lot by listening and speaking to your host family. You will also get a chance to experience the sweet Bengali culture and Bengali way of living. During your stay, you will be provided a personal room with bath and WC, round the clock cold & warm water, meals including breakfast, Lunch and dinner as well as Tea & coffee, facilities for laundry, internet etc.

At present, we are conducting this Bengali Language Course in main cities of West Bengal and other metropolitan cities of India. We would arrange your transfer from nearby international Airport, if wished so, on nominal charges. We could also plan tours to nearby places or any other destination in India and assist you for every other travel tour services needed by you. For any further information regarding Bengali Language Course or travel tour services, do write us and give us a pleasure to assist you.

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to World Wide Participants.

Participants Travel to India Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Indo Vacations's Mission Statement: Indo Vacations offers different courses in Hindi in association with experienced instructors in India and abroad. The courses are of different time duration that can be designed as per the interest of student and the availability of the teacher.

Year Founded: 2000