Why is it so difficult for sylhetis' to speak bangla

[NoOneImportant]

Maybe it's me, but i speak awful bangla, even though I try really hard to speak shudo bangla. According to a friend of mine, (who happens to speak beautiful bangla by the way)i speak sylheti with a shudo accent he he he. Hopefully this should improve as im hoping to take GCSE Bemgali next year. Has anyone here taken bengali GCSE, if so, can you tell me how much of the course content is listening & oral.
Ta All
Hope to hear from you soon

NO1Imptnt

[Ahad]

First of all, can I remind you that Sylheti's do speak very good Bangla, and it is a dialect that is easyly understandable by people from other regions of bangladesh. From personal experience having toured dhaka, Commilla, chittagong and other regions in Bangladesh, they find it easier to understand the Sylheti person thatn the Sylheti understanding them.

You seem to be someone very young as you are enquiring about GCSE bangla. Well my advice to you having examined the Bangla GCSE syllabus(London Exam Board)you should AVOID enrolling fro GCSE Bangla as it is very simple. To put it crudely it is possible for primary schoolkids who speak Bangla at home to pass the exam.

Instead, choose another Foreign Language like French, German or Spanish and request the school/college to allow you to sit the exam paper without doing going to lessons for two years.

This is a normal procedure and schools should comply and make it an additional GCSE on top of the others that you are doing.

Ahad.

PS, back to languages 'Shuddo bangla', what percentage of UK's population speak the 'Quessns English?'

[NoOneImportant]

Gosh Ahad you seemed pretty defensive, im sorry if i ofended you in anyway.(i hope it's just the way you speak.)

Ok sylhetis speak great bangla, but i have to exclude myself. The reason why im so concerned about my bangla is because i hope to work in international development (in health promotion)and would love to work in Bangladesh. Being able to speak the language would help.

eeeeks i didn't mean to decieve you about my age, im not in year 9, im an undergraduate.
I was hoping to do the GCSE in the evenings (so you think it will be a waste of money and time?). By the way i did GCSE Spanish at school and i'm also doing it at university.

Anyway thanks for your advice

NoOneImportant

[Suhanaa]

Hahahahahahahahahahah..hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee..hu hu hu huh hu hu..NoOneImportant...that was funny..

Hey Ahad I thought it was the other way round...the Sylhetis find it easier to understand non-Syhlhety dialects as opposed to the non-Sylhetys, who find it very difficult to understand the Sylhety

Anyway I don't think GCSE Bengali seems very simple to kids who were brought up in the UK. The majority of UK population consists of Sylhetys, And let me tell you guyz that (according to me, I don't know about other people)Other Bangladeshi dialects are much more nearer to Shuddho Bangla then Sylhety. Hence Shuddho Bangla sounds more or less like an alien ling to the Sylhety kids at school.
Ahad what you said about GCSE Bengali being simple may apply to those who speak Shuddho bangla (and these kids are bound to be from other regions of Bangladesh and not Sylhet), because for them it's just a case of learning how to read and write the language not how to speak it.

Yo NoOneImportant....why do you wanna learn bengali....YOU ARE No one important..as you say so yourself (kidding)...lol
hee hee hee


Accha ekhon jai..pore aro likhbo

TAke care guyz



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Babz

[OZZ2]

Sylheti is the best

who cares about shudo Bangla !!!

[Ahad]

I know over hundred people who have done GCSE Bangla, but yet dont know anyone who got below a grade C.

I have copies of the exam paper, and have tried it out with 11 year olds, even they can pass it, and they are brought up here.

Furthermore folks, Sylheti's in this country speak a dialect that has mixtures of english sounds/phrases and bits Shuddo Bangl;a and Sylheti Bangla, it could even be a new lamnguage. lol

Anyway, whatever Bnagla you speak folks keep with it, learning a language is a gift and a skill, the more you speak the better equipped you will be in this multi-cultural society.

AA

[heesham]

Testing Bangali, testing Bangali 1,2,3

Shommanitho shodomondoli Bhai & bonera, kemon achen, bhalo (I hope). Jekanay achen Bhalo thakon, Shustho thakon.

Boy those Anu & Abu books are coming handy.

Fortunately, I understand Bangali. Something I was forced to learn as a youngster. Unfortunately, I am hopeless when speaking it. A Dhakaia friend tried to help but gave up hope in the end.

So back to Sylheti I guess.

heesham