bengali lesson 3/5

Revise the vowel marks

And how these vowel marks modify the letter M

Lets look at five more letters. See if you can read the five words below them -some bits have been filled in
S as in Sum
THE as in THUs
T as in musT
TTH as in TThanda (cold in Hindi)
T' as in roTa ( crying in Hindi)

Here are the answers

Six more constants

GH as in GHee ( clarified butter) , a deep G sounded from the chest
D- hard D as in Dog
SHH- a deeper SH
AD- the tongue is rolled right back and then rolled rapidly forwards to just strike the tip of the hard palate
KH as in loCH THHE - a deeper THE from the chest
Here are the answers

Lets look at the final five consonants - there are examples of the way they sound in a mixture of English , Hindi and Benggali words after the letters. See if you can read them

The JH is a deep J from the chest
This n is exactly like the N in lunch
The Z as in English
The aDH is the tongue rolled right back as in aD and then rolled forwards except that the sound is made from the chest.
Finally the DDH which is D as in Dog but sounded from the chest
Here are the answers

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Here are the detached vowels written on their own.
See if you can read these mixture of Bengali , Hindi and English words where each vowel is used once. The answers are at the bottom of the figure.

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Apart from the 'AN' sound as in the English word cANt there are three other vowel marks.
The first is an NG sound as in the rUNg of a ladder .

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The next one is an accent mark - sort of h sound .

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The third one is a soft T

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In the next lesson we will look at compound letters.