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Brownmocha78 Friday 06th of May 2005 10:08:52 PM
Want to learn Urdu - I have grown a common interest in the widly based language of urdu, I want to learn on my own, but don't know what steps to take...Is there and alphabet table.

Nathan_V Saturday 07th of May 2005 07:55:36 AM
urdu - I would try leanring some Hindi becouse even though it's a different alphabet several basic words are the same or realy close. try finding a book or site or even a person who knows the sino-persian alphabet. That should get you off to a good start. You picked a some what hard language,but stick withit asian languages are real cool!!

alexellisuk Sunday 08th of May 2005 06:49:02 AM
Urdu khoob hai! -
Brownmocha78,

It's nice to see someone who is interested in learning something other than the stock European languages.
Stick with Urdu, Hindi shares a lot of vocabulary with Urdu but the script is more complicated.

Now Urdu can be written in many styles, the most common in print are:

[img]http://www.urdudost.com/bis.gif[/img]
1 Naskh is used for typing Persian and Arabic

[img]http://www.moa.ubc.ca/spiritofislam/images/scripts/nastaliq.gif[/img]
2 Nasta'liq is how Urdu is written by hand and in some cases Persian too

Learning the Urdu written script can be a bit daunting, I'd suggest you find a tutorial for learning Arabic (the script) and practise simple words like aap (you), naan (bread), naam (name) and khoob (good).

This doesn't mean you can't start learning Urdu words with a latin script, try to do them together, a good dictionary supporting latin/naskh is [url]urduword.com[/url]

Please let me know how it goes and drop me an email if you need anything.

Khodaa hafez,

Alex

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	Brownmocha78	Friday 06th of May 2005 10:08:52 PM
	Want to learn Urdu - I have grown a common interest in the widly based language of urdu, I want to learn on my own, but don't know what steps to take...Is there and alphabet table.
	Nathan_V	Saturday 07th of May 2005 07:55:36 AM
	urdu - I would try leanring some Hindi becouse even though it's a different alphabet several basic words are the same or realy close. try finding a book or site or even a person who knows the sino-persian alphabet. That should get you off to a good start. You picked a some what hard language,but stick withit asian languages are real cool!!
	alexellisuk	Sunday 08th of May 2005 06:49:02 AM
	Urdu khoob hai! - Brownmocha78, It's nice to see someone who is interested in learning something other than the stock European languages. Stick with Urdu, Hindi shares a lot of vocabulary with Urdu but the script is more complicated. Now Urdu can be written in many styles, the most common in print are: [img]http://www.urdudost.com/bis.gif[/img] 1 Naskh is used for typing Persian and Arabic [img]http://www.moa.ubc.ca/spiritofislam/images/scripts/nastaliq.gif[/img] 2 Nasta'liq is how Urdu is written by hand and in some cases Persian too Learning the Urdu written script can be a bit daunting, I'd suggest you find a tutorial for learning Arabic (the script) and practise simple words like aap (you), naan (bread), naam (name) and khoob (good). This doesn't mean you can't start learning Urdu words with a latin script, try to do them together, a good dictionary supporting latin/naskh is [url]urduword.com[/url] Please let me know how it goes and drop me an email if you need anything. Khodaa hafez, Alex