Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners

✍ Scribed by Tej K Bhatia, Ashok Koul

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Series: Colloquial Series
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Colloquial Urdu provides a step-by-step course in Urdu as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Urdu in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
• structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar
• an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises
• realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios
• useful vocabulary lists throughout the text
• additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues.

This second edition has been extensively updated and revised throughout, with particular attention to the Urdu script – coverage is now integrated throughout the book and the script font has been enlarged and improved.

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Urdu will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and for students taking courses in Urdu.

Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on two CDs or in MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquial Urdu pack. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material complements the book and will help enhance learners’ listening and speaking skills.

By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages and at the Intermediate-High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.

Course components:The complete course comprises the book and audio materials. These are available to purchase separately in paperback, ebook, CD and MP3 format. The paperback and CDs can also be purchased together in the great-value Colloquials pack.

Paperback: 978-0-415-58695-5 (please note this does not include the audio)

CDs : 978-0-415-58696-2

Ebook: 978-0-203-84726-8 (please note this does not include the audio, available from www.tandfebooks.com)

MP3s: 978-0-415-58699-3 (available from www.tandfebooks.com)

Pack : 978-0-415-58698-6 (paperback and CDs)

✦ Table of Contents

Colloquial Urdu......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
The Urdu writing system and pronunciation......Page 20
Urdu vowels......Page 21
Urdu consonants......Page 23
Pronunciation practice......Page 29
Part I: Urdu script......Page 39
Script unit 1......Page 41
Script unit 2......Page 45
Script unit 3......Page 51
Script unit 4......Page 56
Script unit 5......Page 64
Part II: Units......Page 73
Unit One......Page 75
Unit Two......Page 94
Unit Three......Page 114
Unit Four......Page 134
Unit Five......Page 157
Unit Six......Page 179
Unit Seven......Page 202
Unit Eight......Page 226
Unit Nine......Page 249
Unit Ten......Page 271
Reference grammar......Page 289
Urdu writing system and pronunciation......Page 318
Script unit 1, 2, 3......Page 319
Unit 1......Page 320
Unit 2......Page 323
Unit 3......Page 324
Unit 4......Page 326
Unit 5......Page 328
Unit 6......Page 331
Unit 7......Page 333
Unit 8......Page 335
Unit 9......Page 337
Unit 10......Page 339
Translations of dialogues and readings......Page 340
Urdu-English glossary......Page 348
English-Urdu glossary......Page 373
Index......Page 395

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Хинди, урду;