Bengali Flashcards

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how-to

clicking on the card flips from front to back

incorrect will move the card to the back of the current stack

correct will remove the card from the current stack

what correct and incorrect mean is up to you

when the current stack is emtpy, you will be alerted and it will reset

switch between stacks using the select chapter radio buttons

the Reverse Mode checkbox toggles Reverse Mode, displaying the backs of cards first

about

sam raker made this website to help him learn বাংলা (bangla/bengali.)

bangla vocabulary and english translation in the radice stacks are taken from Complete Bengali by William Radice. no copyright is claimed.

vocab in the mango chapters is adapted from the mango languages bengali course. no copyright is claimed

translation of terms in the misc stack is done using google translate, wiktionary, and/or english-bangla.com. some also come from Descriptive Grammar of Bangla by Anne Boyle David.

the paradigms stack has representative verbal noun and tense on the front and the corresponding conjugated forms on the back. this kind of rote memorization has worked for me in the past, so here it is. terminology and forms from Descriptive Grammar of Bangla pp. 192-223. endings are ordered

           আমি (1st)
           তুই (2nd familiar)
           তুমি (2nd non-honorable)
           আপনি/তিনি (2nd honorable/3rd honorable)
           সে (3rd non-honorable)
          
participles are ordered
          perfect
          imperfect
          conditional
          
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the verb endings stack is just verb endings, excerpted for your muttering convenience.

the postpositions stack is adapted from David's Descriptive Grammar of Bangla pp. 158-65.

any mistakes are the fault of sam raker. please let him know if you see any.

d.i.y.

it's just html, css, and vanilla js.

fork the repo and replace the front and back of the objects in cards.mjs (you'll probably want to change the title too)

host your own flashcards on e.g. netlify, or you can run it locally with e.g. static-file-http-server.