HATFIELD – Nita Das stood before a group of North Penn ESL teachers and gave some examples of common basic phrases in Bengali. She pointed to ‘chesta koro,’ which means ‘please try’ in English – an ...

Bengali can be studied as a second language, however, most students choose Hindi or another language instead. Students are not adequately learning Bengali as a result. Bengali is Now Compulsory ...

A group of Bangladeshi programmers have created a programming language written entirely in Bengali script. It’s called Potaka (Flag), and it’s aimed at encouraging children whose first language is ...

Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the ...

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language for the General ...

Want to make money? Turns out it pays to be bilingual—or at least to learn a second language, according to a recent survey by Preply, an online learning platform that connects students with online ...