Looking for someone to teach me bengali

[Shundori1926]

Hi,
My name is Stacey Mohammed. I am married to a bangladeshi...I was wondering if anyone out there could teach me bengali. I know alittle. My husband works alot so we don't spend that much time together. I would be so happy if someone could. please respond. thank you.
Stacey
P.S. I am going to Bangladesh next year... I need to learn as much as I can before then

[Faisal_Aslam]

I know some Bangali ...
they say Assalam-o-Alliakum instread of Hi ...
Also I advice you to learn cooking fish before leaving to bangladesh...

I will teach more after learning myself...

Faiasl Aslam

[1Q8AL]

Originally posted by Shundori1926
Hi,
My name is Stacey Mohammed. I am married to a bangladeshi...I was wondering if anyone out there could teach me bengali. I know alittle. My husband works alot so we don't spend that much time together. I would be so happy if someone could. please respond. thank you.
Stacey
P.S. I am going to Bangladesh next year... I need to learn as much as I can before then

Hi Stacey, how comes your husband doesn't make time for you, or is it he just chuck you in the kitchen?. He's not the old fashioned type is he?.
I think the basic words you should learn are the greetings and what in laws and all that would like to hear from you.
I'll try to break the words up so you can understand, it may look like I can't spell but trust me.

'Assalamualaikum': greeting.
' Wah alaikum salam' : response to greeting.
'g' : sorry?
'g, oi' : yes
'g, na' : no or no please.
'g, i chee' : o.k
' amma' : mum ( you say to mother in law)
' abba' : dad ( you say to father in law)
'dadi' : grandma
'dada' : grandpa
' sasi' : dads sister
'sasa' : dads brother
' mama' : mums brother
' mami' : mums sister
' afnee bala achanee' : are you alright or depending what tone you use i.e cheerful tone it could be taken as how have you been keeping.
please also note that 'g' is also used as a reply to elders as a respect. it's like aying yes did you call me.
'amee' : me. you express that when your suprised to,: me? again in a suprised tone.
'aseh' : i have got.
' ny' : i haven't got.
please note that any elders you reply to after being called or asked a question to you always put 'g' before your reply again they like that as a respect.

I think I have wrote what the basic things are after all I don't know a lot of bengali my self apart from the basics like this.
I hope I haven't been too harsh on you or your husband. You will learn a great deal when you go to bangladesh I hope. And you will learn to love the culture I hope. And any way how have you found it so far?
Stacey coming from a different culture how are with the religous side of things or haven't started yet?
again I hope you don't find me being harsh in the tone I'm writing in.

I'm a 21 year old guy just having fun and following the western culture so much I do miss my parents culture. But saying this I didn't have a happy upbringing, but hope to find someone special one day and hope to settle down and descover my culture and others if they be different from me. At the moment I'm travelling a lot and this year I have my brothers with me who are no longer staying with my parents just like me so I'm tied down can't travel. But hopefully sort out something next year for my long, long holiday.

bye bye!

[Suhel]

where u born in 1926??


is that ur lucky number?

[Life]

'Assalamualaikum': greeting.
' Wah alaikum salam' : response to greeting.
'g' : sorry?
'g, oi' : yes
'g, na' : no or no please.
'g, i chee' : o.k
' amma' : mum ( you say to mother in law)
' abba' : dad ( you say to father in law)
'dadi' : grandma
'dada' : grandpa
' sasi' : dads sister
'sasa' : dads brother
' mama' : mums brother
' mami' : mums sister
' afnee bala achanee' : are you alright or depending what tone you use i.e cheerful tone it could be taken as how have you been keeping.
please also note that 'g' is also used as a reply to elders as a respect. it's like aying yes did you call me.
'amee' : me. you express that when your suprised to,: me? again in a suprised tone.
'aseh' : i have got.
' ny' : i haven't got.
please note that any elders you reply to after being called or asked a question to you always put 'g' before your reply again they like that as a respect.




Some very useful info, i'm actually embarassed to admit that i don't speak much bangali and get confused with the different ways to speak to elders etc.

[BENGALI_NUTTER]

HEY U 4 GOT 2 MENTION THESE


'ami tumake fosondo khori' i like u
''ami tumake balo bashi' i love u
'amar nam shundori' my name is shundori


acutally i i'll stop ther.. coz running out of time.. 2 b continued....

[Rupali_r]

Why do you lot make such generalisations???

Geez guys you'll scare away the poor woman!

Faisal why would she have to cook fish? Her husband seems liberal minded if he married a non-bengali girl so maybe he wont expect her to cook.

Iqbal, he's "chucked" her into the kitchen? He may be genuinly busy.

If anyone talked about my husband like that id be furious and no im not being OTT, just a womans point of view thats all and besides you have to admit those were stereotyped views esp seeing as she only gave one visit so far.

Stacey, it really depends on which part of Bdesh your husbands from, if he's from Dhaka (the capital) he'd (and his family or whoever you stay with) speak the proper-ish, dialect, which is reckognised nationally.

Whereas if he's from sylhet (and the majority of imigrants are) then you'd have to learn a regional dialect called sylheti.

Ypu'd be much more successful in learning from a bengali rather than the advice we give on here.

Try to find soemone who'll be willing to spend a few hours a week with you, there moght be another bengali family in your area(depending on wheer you live of course). Sometimes you'll find bengali housewives who stay ah home and want to learn english. that way you can both be helpful towards each other and you'd be able to hear what it sounds like ratherthan seeing it off a computer screen.

Alternatively if you ask at your local library they'd be able to get you some self help books.

Take care, hope it helped

me