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Arif, your native Bengali teacher
Regular live classes in small groups. Ask questions, practice conversation, progress fast.
You speak Bengali every week, with a native teacher
You join whichever slot suits you, with nothing to book. The joining link arrives by email, and the session is recorded.
- 4 slots this week, across all three levels
- 2 to 5 students per class, all at your level
- Replay available the same evening, with no time limit

Reconnect with Bengali
The language of your parents, your grandparents or your partner. The one you want to pass on to your children.





- Finally understand what is said at the table, and answer back.
- “Hi Mum, I speak Bengali!”
A language is passed down from generation to generation. Now it is your turn.
Start for freeProgress in Bengali between classes, at your own pace
Interactive lessons with native audio, vocabulary, dialogues and quizzes. Everything you need to reinforce your skills between live sessions.
Between classes, you move forward twenty minutes a day
Lessons follow one another in order, with no evening to set aside. Every word is recorded by a native speaker.
- 226 lessons across 49 modules, from beginner to advanced
- Native audio on every word, with a slow-down button
- Your progress is kept, on phone and on computer alike
You hear the language as it is actually spoken
The recordings are made by native speakers, not by a synthetic voice. The slow-down button separates the sounds when it goes too fast.
- Every sentence can be played and slowed down
- The transcription and translation sit under the audio
- You replay it as many times as you need, with no limit
Every module ends with a quiz, not with a ticked box
You are corrected on the spot, with the explanation. A failed quiz can be retaken, with no penalty and no record.
- Immediate correction, with the right answer explained
- An end-of-level test opens the next level
- A level certificate at the end of the course
Your Bengali level, certified in your name
- Issued once you have passed every lesson of a level: beginner, intermediate or advanced
- Downloadable as a PDF and shareable on LinkedIn
- A unique number, verifiable online on targumi.com
- Included in the plans with live classes, from the first payment: it is not issued during the trial
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Your Bengali curriculum
Exactly what you'll find inside the platform: 49 modules, 226+ structured lessons, quizzes and exercises.
- Family members10 min
- The Family Hierarchy10 min
- Blood ties and marriage10 min
- Talking about your family10 min
- Family in Bengali culture10 min
- At the Bengali market10 min
- Currencies , Taka and Rupee10 min
- Quantities and units of measurement10 min
- Bargaining and negotiating10 min
- Modern shopping , supermarkets and cities10 min
- Bengali cuisine , an introduction10 min
- The hilsa , national fish10 min
- Biryani and grand occasions10 min
- At a Bengali restaurant10 min
- Drinks and tea10 min
- Cardinal points and basic directions10 min
- Getting Around Dhaka10 min
- Kolkata , finding your way around the city10 min
- Intercity Transport10 min
- Asking for Directions , Full Dialogue10 min
- Bengali seasons , ঋতু10 min
- Describing the Weather , আবহাওয়ার বর্ণনা10 min
- Talking about the weather in the past and future10 min
- The Monsoon and Bengali Culture10 min
- The human body , মানবদেহ10 min
- The body , limbs and organs10 min
- Health and the doctor , স্বাস্থ্য ও ডাক্তার10 min
- Body and Idiomatic Expressions10 min
- Cricket , ক্রিকেট, a national passion10 min
- Bengali cinema , সিনেমা ও সত্যজিৎ রায়10 min
- Rabindranath Tagore , রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর10 min
- Baul music , বাউল সংগীত10 min
- Professions , পেশা10 min
- The workplace , কর্মক্ষেত্র10 min
- Talking about your job , কাজের কথা10 min
- Job hunting , চাকরি খোঁজা10 min
- At the airport , বিমানবন্দরে10 min
- At the hotel , হোটেলে10 min
- Transport , ট্রেন ও নৌকা10 min
- The Sundarbans , সুন্দরবন10 min
- Rabindranath Tagore , রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর10 min
- Durga Puja , দুর্গাপূজা10 min
- Pohela Boishakh , পহেলা বৈশাখ10 min
- Baul music , বাউল সংগীত10 min
- Numbers 1-10 , এক থেকে দশ10 min
- Numbers 11-100 , এগারো থেকে একশ10 min
- Telling the time , সময় বলা10 min
- Counting with classifiers , গণনা10 min
- Days of the week , সপ্তাহের দিন10 min
- The Bengali months , বাংলা মাস10 min
- Yesterday, today, tomorrow , গতকাল, আজ, আগামীকাল10 min
- Talking about the passing of time10 min
- Basic colours , রং10 min
- Colours and Culture , Symbolism10 min
- Sizes and shapes , বড়, ছোট10 min
- Describing an object by its colour10 min
- The sari and the panjabi , traditional clothing10 min
- Everyday clothing , দৈনন্দিন পোশাক10 min
- Buying clothes , দোকানে10 min
- Describing what someone is wearing10 min
- The rooms of the house , ঘর10 min
- Household objects , জিনিসপত্র10 min
- In the kitchen , রান্নাঘরে10 min
- Inviting someone home , অতিথি স্বাগতম10 min
- Domestic Animals , গৃহপালিত পশু10 min
- The Bengal tiger , রয়েল বেঙ্গল টাইগার10 min
- Bengali nature , গাছ ও নদী10 min
- Describing a Landscape10 min
- Joy and Sadness , আনন্দ ও দুঃখ10 min
- Anger and fear , রাগ ও ভয়10 min
- Describing your mood , মন কেমন10 min
- Expressing Preferences , পছন্দ10 min
- At school , স্কুলে10 min
- School Subjects , বিষয়10 min
- Reading and writing , পড়া ও লেখা10 min
- Studying Bengali , বাংলা শেখা10 min
- On the phone , ফোনে10 min
- SMS and messages , মেসেজ10 min
- Internet and Social Media , ইন্টারনেট10 min
- Asking for a phone number , নম্বর জিজ্ঞেস করা10 min
- The Bengali alphabet12 min
- Namaskar , Bengali greetings10 min
- Rabindranath Tagore and Bengali culture12 min
- Reading the newspapers , পত্রিকা পড়া15 min
- Politics in Bangladesh , বাংলাদেশের রাজনীতি15 min
- Politics of West Bengal , পশ্চিমবঙ্গের রাজনীতি15 min
- Debate and Argumentation , বিতর্ক ও যুক্তি15 min
- Advanced Tagore , রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর15 min
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay , বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়15 min
- Kazi Nazrul Islam , কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম15 min
- Contemporary literature , সমসাময়িক সাহিত্য15 min
- Looking for a Flat in Dhaka , ঢাকায় ফ্ল্যাট খোঁজা15 min
- Furnishing and equipping , আসবাবপত্র ও সরঞ্জাম15 min
- Neighbourhood life , এলাকার জীবন15 min
- Problems and Repairs , সমস্যা ও মেরামত15 min
- At the Doctor's , ডাক্তারের কাছে15 min
- At the pharmacy , ফার্মেসিতে15 min
- Emergencies and hospital , জরুরি বিভাগ ও হাসপাতাল15 min
- Prevention and well-being , প্রতিরোধ ও সুস্থতা15 min
- Dhaka biryani , ঢাকাই বিরিয়ানি15 min
- Bengali Sweets , বাংলার মিষ্টি15 min
- The thali and everyday dishes , থালি ও দৈনন্দিন খাবার15 min
- Street food and chai , পথের খাবার ও চা15 min
- The Extended Family , যৌথ পরিবার15 min
- Bengali weddings , বাঙালি বিয়ে15 min
- Friendship and Neighbourliness , বন্ধুত্ব ও প্রতিবেশ15 min
- Conflict, separation and reconciliation , দ্বন্দ্ব ও বিচ্ছেদ15 min
- Urbanisation and migration , নগরায়ণ ও অভিবাসন15 min
- Women and Social Rights , নারী ও সামাজিক অধিকার15 min
- Education and youth , শিক্ষা ও তরুণ প্রজন্ম15 min
- Religion and Diversity , ধর্ম ও বৈচিত্র্য15 min
- The Ganges-Brahmaputra delta , গঙ্গা-ব্রহ্মপুত্র ব-দ্বীপ15 min
- The Sundarbans and the mangrove , সুন্দরবন ও ম্যানগ্রোভ15 min
- Monsoon and cyclones , বর্ষা ও ঘূর্ণিঝড়15 min
- Environment and Ecology , পরিবেশ ও বাস্তুসংস্থান15 min
- Rabindra Sangeet , রবীন্দ্রসংগীত15 min
- Bengali cinema , বাংলা চলচ্চিত্র15 min
- Pohela Boishakh , পহেলা বৈশাখ15 min
- Cinema, dance and theatre , নৃত্য ও নাট্যকলা15 min
- Digital Bangladesh , ডিজিটাল বাংলাদেশ15 min
- Remote work , দূরবর্তী কাজ15 min
- Social Media , সামাজিক মাধ্যম15 min
- Startups and the Tech Ecosystem , স্টার্টআপ ও প্রযুক্তি ইকোসিস্টেম15 min
- Bengali conjugation10 min
- Family and Social Relations8 min
- At the Market and in Town10 min
- Bengali Food8 min
- + 2 more
- Bankim Chandra and the modern novel , বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র ও আধুনিক উপন্যাস18 min
- Bibhutibhushan and the rural novel , বিভূতিভূষণ ও গ্রামীণ উপন্যাস18 min
- Mahasweta Devi and committed literature , মহাশ্বেতা দেবী18 min
- Michael Madhusudan Datta , The pioneering Bengali sonnet16 min
- + 2 more
- Swami Vivekananda , স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ20 min
- Sri Aurobindo , শ্রী অরবিন্দ20 min
- Tagore the philosopher , ঠাকুরের দর্শন18 min
- The Indian Philosophical Schools , ষড়দর্শন18 min
- Ramakrishna & Vivekananda , Bengali Vedanta goes global17 min
- + 2 more
- The Daily Star , ইংরেজি সাংবাদিকতা18 min
- Prothom Alo , প্রথম আলো18 min
- Anandabazar Patrika , আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা18 min
- Television and digital media , টেলিভিশন ও ডিজিটাল গণমাধ্যম18 min
- Formal registers of the Bangladeshi press , C2 advanced15 min
- + 2 more
- মুক্তিযুদ্ধ , The Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)20 min
- বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান , Father and statesman18 min
- পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ও মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় , Indian Bengali politics17 min
- সুন্দরবন ও জলবায়ু সংকট , The Bengali climate emergency18 min
- পোশাক শিল্প ও শ্রমিক অধিকার , RMG and the Bangladeshi textile industry18 min
- + 2 more
- সাধু ও চলিত ভাষা , The Two Fundamental Registers20 min
- আরবি-ফারসি প্রভাব , Islamic borrowings in Bengali18 min
- ইংরেজি প্রভাব ও বাংলিশ , English in modern Bengali16 min
- বাংলার স্বরতন্ত্র ও ব্যঞ্জনধ্বনি , Advanced phonology18 min
- SOV বাক্যগঠন ও উন্নত পরসর্গ , Advanced syntax20 min
- + 2 more
- বাংলাদেশের অর্থনীতি , Growth and Economic Challenges18 min
- জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু , pioneer of science17 min
- সত্যেন্দ্রনাথ বসু ও কোয়ান্টাম পদার্থবিজ্ঞান , The boson16 min
- Amartya Sen , Welfare economics and the Nobel Prize17 min
- ডিজিটাল বাংলাদেশ , Digital revolution and the future16 min
- + 2 more
- কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম , The Rebel Poet20 min
- নজরুলের রাজনৈতিক কবিতা , Anticolonial Poetry18 min
- সেলিনা হোসেন , Bangladesh's leading female novelist18 min
- হুমায়ূন আহমেদ , The great hero of modern Bengali fiction17 min
- তসলিমা নাসরিন , Controversy and Women's Rights16 min
- + 2 more
- সত্যজিৎ রায় , The great master of Bengali cinema20 min
- রবীন্দ্রসংগীত , Tagore's music as living heritage18 min
- বাংলাদেশি চলচ্চিত্র , Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and the new wave16 min
- বাউল ও লোকসংগীত , Bengali mystic and folk music16 min
- বাংলার চিত্রকলা ও শিল্পকলা , Bengali Painting and Visual Arts15 min
- + 2 more
- প্রবন্ধ রচনা , The Art of Bengali Essay Writing20 min
- আনুষ্ঠানিক বিতর্ক , Formal debate in Bengali18 min
- জনসম্মুখে বক্তৃতা , The Art of Public Speaking in Bengali16 min
- সাহিত্য সমালোচনা , Writing a literary review C217 min
- পেশাদার যোগাযোগ , Advanced Professional Communication C215 min
- + 2 more
- ষড়দর্শন , The Six Schools of Indian Philosophy in Depth20 min
- নারীর অধিকার ও আইন , Women's Rights and Law in Bangladesh17 min
- প্রবাসী বাঙালি পরিচিতি , Bengali diaspora identity16 min
- বাংলাদেশের গণতন্ত্র , Contemporary Debates and Political Crises16 min
- Bengali proverbs12 min
- Advanced idiomatic expressions10 min
- আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা , The giant of the Indian Bengali press16 min
- দৈনিক স্টার পড়া , Reading the Daily Star in Bengali English15 min
- বাংলা একাডেমি ও ভাষা নীতি , Bengali language policy15 min
- রেডিও, টেলিভিশন ও ডিজিটাল মিডিয়া , Bangladesh's Media Landscape14 min
- বিজ্ঞাপন ও মার্কেটিং ভাষা , Bengali advertising language13 min
- + 2 more
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What you'll learn in Bengali
A curriculum designed to get you speaking Bengali in the situations that actually matter to you.
Start for free- 01Bengali alphabet (বর্ণমালা): 50 letters, an abugida script
- 02Conversational Bengali from Dhaka and Kolkata
- 03Literary Bengali of Tagore vs modern spoken Bengali
- 04Bangladesh vs West Bengal: dialectal nuances
- 05Culture: literature, Baul music and Bengali cuisine
- 06Bangladeshi textile, tech and booming economy
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- A complete learning platform: learn to build sentences, listen to audio recorded by native speakers, practise with exercises.
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