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Let's Learn Bengali

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As a second generation Bangladeshi young person who has grown up in the East End of London and integrated, speaking Bengali became my second language. The only time I used my basic Sylheti Bangla was when I was speaking with my dad and other extended elders; but  mainly spoke English with everyone else. Nowadays, English is the mother tongue for the 3rd and the future generations growing up in the Anglicize Bangladeshi community. These let's learn Bengali books are produced with those key factors and also to adopt to "the way of the days" ways of learning and teaching.  These books have multiple purposes and it is not intended for a single market target, these books are to facilitate learning for the young children/people as well as parents. Parents benefit from the passive learning while they teach it to their children. These books are to facilitate relationship building and nurturing through teaching one's mother tongue language. Today's young parent ta