Although there is a longstanding general perception that most school and college students have weak English language skills, Dhaka University’s recent admission test results show they are also ...

SBS Bangla’s local contributor, Munasib Hamid, spoke with Sophia Chowdhury, a second-generation Bangladeshi Australian from ...

This movement backwards to find a knot to tie, to find traces of an origin and collect them in the space left hollow within me, is prompted by a prolonged, gnawing emotion of detachment and alienation ...

Ahmed Rafiq, Language Movement veteran and researcher, fails to reconcile with the fact that Bangladesh still has not embedded Bangla at all levels 70 years into the history-bending event. In an ...

Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the ...

A group of Bangladeshi programmers have created a programming language written entirely in Bengali script. It’s called Potaka (Flag), and it’s aimed at encouraging children whose first language is ...

“Language is patriarchal”-- this topic has received much attention from a gender studies perspective. Language is a powerful way to reinforce and normalize the dominance of men over women within socio ...

Language learning application Duolingo has launched a new Indian language course on its platform allowing users to learn English from Bengali. According to an official statement, the application is ...

The West Bengal cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to make Bengali mandatory as a second language in private English medium schools, a senior official said. The cabinet meeting, chaired by chief ...