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To get started, make a selection from the various links. A Major Listing of Urdu Resources for Audio Links An overview of the language from Transparent Language Urdu is part of the Bantu group of languages which stems from the Niger-Congo language family. Contact with Arabic traders along the coast and the establishment of regular trade routes helped spread the language. It also gave it a strong Arabic influence, as is evident from the many words of Arab origin found in the Urdu language today. Even the name "Urdu" comes from an Arabic word meaning "by the coast." Is Urdu a particularly hard language to learn for an English-speaking person? Urdu Phrases links r The name "Pakistan" means "Land of the Pure" in Urdu, Sindhi, and Persian. The Beauty of Pakistan / a video Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a sovereign country located in South Asia and the Greater Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometer coastline along the Arabian Sea in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world and is the second most populous country with a Muslim majority. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British India and has a long history of settlement and civilization including the Indus Valley Civilization. Islamabad the Beauty of Pakistan / a video Islamabad is beautiful. It is a region-wide symbol of progress, innovation and architectural marvel. Settlement in Islamabad, the new capital after Karachi, began in the 1960s. As the city was newly founded, the growth of the population was slow. Being the seat of the Government of Pakistan, initially government servants and employees of the federal administration settled here. Since then, there has been a steady growth in the population of the city, which has swelled to somewhere in excess of a million inhabitants. A Bus Tour of Lahore God can see a black ant walk on a black stone in a black night. The Top Ten Cleanest Cities in Pakistan An Ad For Learning Another Language From YouTube If this turtle can learn Urdu you can too. Entoloma Hochstetter A Blue Mushroom It is a species found in New Zealand and India. Our soccer team is going to win today. Yea Pakistan. We want to race Ben Hur three times around the Roman Coliseum Arena. Now, get those two birds out of our path. Our Urdu teacher has lots of CLASS Urdu is written from right to left just like Arabic and Persian. Urdu has 39 basic letters and 13 extra characters, all together 52 and most of these letters are from Arabic and a small quantity form Persian. It has almost all the sounds available in any other language spoken in the world. 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Urdu Phrasebook Tongue Twisters in Urdu How many you can repeat in one minute? Challenge a friend to say it faster. Basic Words In Urdu (Lesson 1) - A short video. (Lesson 2) - Basic Sentences Now learn some fruits in Urdu A the end, how many can you repeat? Learn Urdu Top 300 Urdu Websites More Top Websites for you to consider Welcome to Pakistan Tourism in Pakistan by Wikipedia Urdu NEWSPAPERS ===> A major listing Urdu Newspapers Online Urdu is the official language of Pakistan, and it is spoken widely in western India. Urdu descends from the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European. Its immediate ancestor was Vedic Sanskrit. Urdu is most closely related to Assamese, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Singhalese, Romany, and Urdu. Photos of Pakistan Learn Urdu Online for Free Select the phrases that you want to learn from the list on the right. These cover a wide variety of Urdu topics, including the numbers in Urdu, Urdu days, Urdu greetings and the months in Urdu. 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Learn Urdu on YouTube Learn Urdu for 1hr17 minutes via the blackboard Urdu for kids DVD set - Children learning Urdu, KiUrdu, Poland Can you understand spoken Urdu? Speaking Urdu (beginners) - A YouTube Video Youtube Tutorials for Learning Urdu Urdu Language Games Urdu Games for Kids Hangman Game for Urdu - Phansi Ghar Online Urdu games - Click and tell online game - Urdu language learning games for kids Lots of fun here with various categories. Hit the CLICK TO PLAY button. Learn to Speak Urdu Language Exchange via Email, Text Chat and Voice Chat Learn Urdu For Free "Fear those who are afraid of you" The Best Way to Learn Urdu by GOOGLE Take a quiz in Urdu These online quizzes are based on the Urdu content in the Transparent Language's Languages of the World program. A blue footed boobie "Fear can make a donkey attack a lion" Jim's Multilanguage Homepage with 31 languages English to Urdu Translator This one provides an translation either direction It is a great site...check it out! Talk about a site that does your language homework...this is it! You select the language you want translated from English and VOILA! Urdu Teacher hints, advice and tips I know from my own experience that being on a continual path of self-improvement is an absolute necessity toward be a good teacher. Hang out with other Urdu educators that you admire. Watch them closely and learn from them. Imitation is the greatest compliment! Whenever you can in your own environment, ask to observe colleagues in action in their Urdu classroom. Pick up ideas that work for them and adopt and adapt them to you own classroom. Always be on the "lookout" for new ideas, new means of teaching, new ways to incorporate things that work for others into your own methodology. Don't hesitate to ask questions of Urdu teachers who have had much success as to how and why that happened. I used to observe elementary teachers and how they interacted with their young students. Always something to learn. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You'll never live long enough to make all of them yourself." Another that I always believed in is - If you think you're green, you'll grow - if you think you're ripe, you'll rot. All true. Don't rot! That's an axiom that will never grow old. You may think that you are the best, but you're not. There is always someone better than you. (I learned this playing basketball) Learn from them. Know what the best practices are and be aware of the current online resources that can be of great help to you and your Urdu language students. Keep your Urdu classroom presentations FRESH. Keep up with innovation and the changing needs of your students by incorporating technology such as computer use, iPhones, iPads, e-mail and a host of other innovations into your routine classroom activities to communicate with others in the target language and to access authentic resources. Stay current with options and trends in the field such as the National Standards and know how to incorporate them into your daily plans. Hopefully these few ideas will aid in your growth and success. Stay with it. Don't throw in the towel like many have, but again as I point out above, whatever new ideas you discover, you must first adopt and then adapt. Not everything you see elsewhere will work for you as I have personally learned. You must adapt those ideas to your own classroom. There are a host of great ideas available on all these sites, but they are only as successful as you will make them. And perhaps most important of all, do ask your students often how they feel about what they are doing and learning and what they enjoy the most and the least in your classroom. Most of all, do enjoy your Urdu students and share yourself with them. [They don't care how much you know until they know how much you CARE] I hope that you picked up some ideas here that will aid in your total success. Have fun in your classroom. (ps I picked up these ideas in a recent dream and wanted to share with each of you) I'm 78 now, but never too old to learn and never too old to share ideas. Best yet, why not be learning another language yourself? Check out one of the sites above. It is a great means to experience first-hand what your students are feeling. Now you are "walking in their shoes." Don't forget to have FUN doing it. (See Below) Jim Becker = BA, Cornell College (Iowa), MA, La Sorbonne (Paris), PhD.-ABD, The Ohio State University (Foreign Language Education) 143 Fun Learning Games and Activities for the Urdu Classroom A wide array of proven fun games and learning activities for teachers to use in the classroom. 35 years of classroom experience for students and their teachers to enjoy. I hope you enjoyed all the Urdu links on this site. Jim Becker, Professor Emeritus and your Webmaster.