Earlier I wrote a little about what my learning plan was.
These were my specific goals:
-Learning how to speak formally so that I can understand things like the news.
-Learning how to write in Bengali script
-Learning how to read in Bengali
-Broaden my vocabulary
-Learn how to tell time
-Learn how to say the days of the week
-Learn numbers
I'm not sure about the order in which I'd approach these in relation to each other- whether I should alternate between the them or work on one, master it, and then move on to the next. I think I want to alternate so that I get an all around experience and get ahead by multitasking.
When it comes to learning how to speak formally and understanding formal Bengali (shuddo bangla, as it is referred to) I think I need to expose myself to watching others speak it more often. I should watch episodes of the news and maybe movies in which they speak in formal Bengali as opposed to colloquial.
For Bengali script, I should familiarize myself with the letters in the alphabet, the shortened forms for the vowels, and then learn how to connect the letters to each other.
After learning the letters and how they connect, I can work on reading them by memorizing the sounds that they make. This part should be the easiest because I can already speak the language.
In order to broaden my vocabulary, I want to eliminate my usage of English words when I talk in Bengali. I can keep a list of the English words I use instead of a Bengali one because I don't know it, and then ask my language partner what the equivalent is. I could get a dictionary, however I can only do that once I master reading in Bengali because the name for the words in most Bengali dictionaries are in Bangla.
Numbers, time, and days of the week are all memorization.
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