🇧🇩 The best podcasts for learning Bengali

SBS produces Bengali news and features for Australia's Bangladeshi community, published as a daily podcast. Episodes are short and clearly spoken, and the mix of Australian and South Asian subject matter gives you vocabulary the Dhaka press will not. One of the few Bengali podcasts with a stable RSS feed rather than a YouTube-only presence.

Mihalis Eleftheriou records real lessons with a real student and walks you through constructing the language yourself using cognates and logic — Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Swahili are covered. Completely free, no ads, no sign-up, funded by donations. The Spanish course in particular is one of the most recommended free resources anywhere; the trade-off is small vocabulary and no reading or writing practice.

Mark Pentleton teaches a genuine student while you listen in, across French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Japanese and Gaelic. The podcast seasons are free on any podcast app and are structured as a real curriculum rather than scattered episodes; the Academy sells premium lesson notes, video and bonus audio. Ideal commuting material for beginners through B1, and the Spanish and French series are the strongest.