Kathamala Bangla Class Fall 2024 Registration

Somerset Bengali Association’s initiative to teach Bengali to children has been going on for four years. In 2020, when the whole world was devastated and panicked by the covid epidemic, a very big problem before us was to maintain the normality even in this confined life of the children at home. From the discussion of solving that problem, the idea of introducing the next generation to their own language, literature and culture emerged, and as a result, we have this Bengali teaching class.

We have Zoom based online classes on weekends. 2 sessions of 8 weeks are taken one day a week in a year. Online summer camp is organized during summer holidays. Based on the ability of the children, we place the children in Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced groups. We teach through rhymes, poems, stories and various myths. The children of our class have now learned to write stories in Bengali, recite poems and speak in Bengali. We are extremely grateful to everyone associated with us for making this initiative of Kathamala a success to introduce the Bengali language to the next generation.