Bangla Alphabet Lesson 1 - VOWELS (SHOROBORNO)

BigZ is back with another lesson. This time I'm stepping up to teach you Bangla alphabets, also known as Shoroborno. This is lesson 1, where vowels are being introduced.

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[luvie]

i am bengali, but i live in america, I can speak bangla, but i cannot read or write it, and i’ve been wanting to learn lately. thank you for making this video!

[amanir]

Thank you for all your videos! I am trying to reconnect with my culture and they’re so useful

[dxxongamer]

Thanks I was born in Kuwait so I don't have the opportunity to learn Bangla but I'm trying my best to learn Bangla (don't mistake I can speak Bangla but I cannot read it)
(Thank you so much) 😊

[azulazk]

Thank you for your work. Such a sweet language

[imamshantoasfi]

Brother, this video is really just perfect. I can speak shudu basha but have no reading ability. My father recently passed and I really wanted to connect with my Bengali heritage as a result. This video is so well made, easy and kind to a novice. Please keep going friend !

[northernmama]

a better example for e is "age". That is because the letter e in "Feldman" is "short" - e.g. pronounced short e as in "elephant" or as the vowel sound you hear when you say BELL or EL or naming the letter L. The actually mouth sound you form with the letter L is le-le-le not el el. So the names of letters are MUCH less important than the sounds they make. Many languages pronounced a, e and i differently, which is hard for non English speakers when learning English. We also see a problem with the letter "i, I", which in some countries is pronounced 'ee' as in "teeth", but in English is pronounced as SHORT i, as in pit, or in, and never as ee (teeth), if at the beginnging of the word, but if followed by e, as in Bite, the i is "long", bike, bite, type, tine, pine, line, etc.
Phonetics are heavily preferred in the English language, and many dictionaries instruct readers to learn the phonetics as part of the language, so that each combination of letters is matched with a phonetic chart.
e.g. consonent blends and vowel blends in english - ea, ie, ch, sh, th,
If you don't learn the phonetics in English, a person learning English will consistently speak the sounds incorrectly, for years, due to poor understanding of the phonetics. That's part of the hilarity of language, but also, for those learning English to recognize that they must KNOW that i is not pronounced ee as it often is in their own language, and e is no pronounced ay as in hay, and o is pronounced open or differently in often. The vowel sounds in English is MUCH more complex than most people appreciate, probably because it draws from many languages. There are also sounds for instance in Bengalese that do not exist in English, and some formations are very difficult for English people to make (as we can appreciate when listening to people with Chinese language background sounding like they have marbles in their mouth when speaking English). These are most ACCENT problems.

When you use the dot in your language, this might be considered an "accent mark" in English phonetics, but is not used in the English language when writing to help readers. One exception might be old King James Bibles, which use phonetics heavily to assist readers with names specfically. Accent marks are used in the French language on certain letters to guide the speaker, and many languages but are completely absent in the English language, except when writing in shorthand, which is a very interesting thing to explore for those learning English (Pitman or Forkner shorthand) as they cut out the cursive vowels and use dots and commas for i and o and a to speed up the writing for the transcriber, and then use lines for long consonants like m or write out the vowel for oooo sounds. It's possibly easier to learn to write English using Forkener, unfortunately, nobody will be able t oread it easily till you write it out in full.

If you struggle to type out the phonetic sounds for some of the consonants in your lesson, take some time to study English phonetics.
For instance, on the consonant lesson, you struggled with the English phonetics, but it's not that hard to do if you understand how the English phonics work -
e.g. undoosteerja, (if you are french you might sound out un as oon, but if english, you would say un (as in under). So it becomes important to know the short/long sounds of English phonics as well.
biosheineenow, law (lah), talibasha, moodonashaw, duntashaw, haw, doisheenaro (roll the rr), doi shin' aro (shin more emphasis using the ' apostrophe mark in absence of the keyboard accent (aka diacritic mark :) for english phonetic use), conductoor, onisha, beeshargo, chandrobintro are some ways I might read the consonants in english (this can be improved upon if the english sounds are not exactly as they should be sounded out in Bengalese).

I observe of course, that Rosho e and dirgho ee are the exact problem that every language has to deal with when it comes to vowels.

Also, it's not really "oi mate" it's actually 'ahoy mate" and was originally on the ships - ahoy, captain, shortened of course to "oi". A better examble would be "boil" or "foil" or "toil" for the purpose of the sounds being use in proper words, rather than using a slang or shortened word.
For instance, just because I say "lo" for Hello" does not mean you should use the world "lo" as an example for how something sounds in your language. It would be better t ouse the word LOW else someone might read it as "law" if the sound of "o" is 'aw'.

Thus picking the right word for the EXAMPLE is as much part of the exercise as trying to spell the bengalese word out. We might assume that everyone speaks English, which simplifies language learning immensely after that, but only if those who have learned English have lost their accents, including losing heavy british accents unfortunately. If you are Canadian, you don't speak with a British accent, and in fact, Canadian English, when done correctly, is a much better sounding language than American or British versions of the Queen's English.

[LearnBengaliwithJAMI]

Nice video! Keep making new lessons brother!

[mohosinahasan]

Thnx this video was helpful compared to the other ones

[speedyboishan]

Hi do you have the rest of the alphabets, thnx

[YoutubeXigote]

It was very helpful and thanks for your good work keep it up

[ShadenHegazy]

Hello, I need to know something, the letter উ, do we read it (u) and it sounds rosho in the words? or the opposite? we read it rosho and sounds u in the words?

[actuallnaba]

I’m fromAmerica but I’m going to Bangladesh 🇧🇩
For the summer with my family, so I
Thought I’d learn some alphabets...

[processandbeing]

Thanks! There are a lot of Bangla-speakers where I live and I want to learn some Bangla as a kind gesture but the app I've found to learn has so-so transliteration into English and no literacy features. This is super helpful! Do you have downloadable resources? An Anki deck or something? That would be helpful when I don't have wifi to watch youtube.

[ChitaliAadhara]

how many letters in the whole alpebet? I'm curious I wanna know

[deepabihani]

Plz make the same kind of channel teaching hindi alphabets. U explain very nicely!

[SalmaAkter-mbxi]

One question, if these are the vowels, are they in banjoborno

[mariamasum]

Wish u can make a video about the weather's, numbers, and also object or thing that start withe alphabet pls u gave me hope in learning my language

[simrajamal]

Hi, I noticed that the vowel Ri is sometimtes placed as the last vowel in order. I'm confused. Where does Ri belong in the list of vowels?

[thkhan]

Wait so is it shorea and shoreo or just a and o

[tan]

Hiya, I wanted to know what the difference between Rosho E and Dirgho E is and the difference between Rosho U and Dirgho U is. From what I’ve read online there is apparently no difference when you read it but what would be the difference when you use them when typing and reading or spelling a word? Thanks I’ve just started learning and your video is very helpful