Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1964.
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The materials for a basic course in spoken Bengali presented in
this book were prepared by revision of an earlier work dated 1959.
The revision was based on experience gained from 2 years of
classroom work with the initial course materials and on advice and
comments received from those to whom the first draft was sent for
criticism. The authors of this course acknowledge the benefits this
revision has gained from another course, "Spoken Bengali, " also
written in 1959, by ferguson and satterwaite, but they point out
that the emphasis of the other course is different from that of the
"introduction to bengali. " for this course, conversation and
drills are oriented more toward cultural concepts than toward
practical situations. This approach aims at a compromise between
purely structural and purely cultural orientation. Tape recordings
have been prepared of the materials in this book with the exception
of the explanatory sections and translation drills. This book has
been planned to be used in conjunction with those recordings. Early
lessons place much stress on intonation which must be heard to be
understood. Patte drills of english to bengali are given in the
text, but bengali to english drills were left to the classroom
instructor to prepare. Such drills were included, however, on the
tapes.