

From these 26 letters, five letters are vowels, and the remaining 21 letters are known as consonants.

These terms are used during the old days of printing before the computer because the old metal blocks for setting type were kept two different cases, one is lower case for small letters, and another is upper case for large letters.Īll of the 26 alphabets are classified into vowels and consonants. Sometimes, small letters are called lowercase letters, and capital letters are called uppercase letters. Large letters are often called Capital Letters.

Each letter of English alphabet has two forms: capital and small letters. The English alphabet has 26 letters that start with ‘a’ and end with ‘z’. These are used to present the basic set of speech sounds of a language.Īlphabet গুলোকে কোন ভাষার বর্ণ বা সংকেত বলা হয়। The alphabet is known as the set of letters or symbols.

The book also comes with a dedicate page where all the and are in one place to go through the letters and alphabets more easily.The modern English alphabet consists of 26 letters, and they are known as Latin alphabet. We have also add pronunciations of each alphabets to help the children understand how to speak the words better. You could read through the book and tell stories about one of your memorable riskshaw () rides or how kathal () is our national fruit and Dhaka () is our capital city and how deeply we feel about eating rice () for both lunch and dinner. We tried to brainstorm and add pictures or illustrations to represent Bangladesh as much as we could to give the children an idea of what Bangladesh is famous for. Hopefully, this book will help Bengali parents everywhere fill that void and start a wonderful habit for their children of reading Bengali books. As immigrants, living away from the motherland, we often miss out on typical Bangali street food, the excitement of Puja or Eid, the and last but not least, the joy of being able to buy and read books written in our own language from local bookshops. Not only just the mother tongue but also teaching different languages to Freya has always been very important to us as parents and the beginning of approaching towards that goal almost always starts with teaching her the alphabets. This book was inspired by Freya, my 11 months old daughter whose parents are Bengali, was born in the UK and now lives in Italy.
