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Bengali speakers learning Irish
— the mistakes your language makes you commit

Your native language (বাংলা) quietly pushes you into specific Irish errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.

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from your first language

"আমার একটা বই আছে" is already "Tá leabhar agam"

Bengali stands the book beside you rather than owning it, and so does Irish. Feelings take the same road: "Tá ocras orm" = hunger is on me.

from your first language

Verb-last to verb-first

Bengali closes the sentence with the verb ("আমি চা খাই"); Irish opens with it — "Ólaim tae". Say the action before you have chosen the rest.

from your first language

From the -টা suffix to the word "an"

Bengali marks the known thing with an ending (বইটা); Irish puts a separate word in front: "an leabhar". And there is still no word for "a" anywhere.

from your first language

The opening consonant softens

Nothing in Bengali changes a word’s first sound, but Irish does it constantly: cat → mo chat, bean → an bhean, bád → ár mbád. Store the trigger and the mutation together.

from your first language

Irish keeps the little verb

Bengali says "সে ডাক্তার" with no verb at all; Irish needs "Is dochtúir é" — and switches to tá for states: "Tá sé tuirseach".

core challenge

Verb first (VSO word order)

Irish opens the sentence with the verb: "Ólaim tae" = I drink tea, "Itheann Seán arán" = Seán eats bread. Action, then who, then what.

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