Thanks, snakelegs.
I am beginning to think that I should look for a proper course, where I live. Or persuade one of my neighbours to teach me.
I'm not sure Urdu is a langauge easily learned from books or internet.
I'm not sure Urdu is a language easily learned at all!! :uuh:
Peace.
yes, if you can find a course, that would be great. (for me there is no such option). it would also be excellent if you could get one of your neighbours to teach you. i had a russian landlady once who asked me if i would teach her english - i said sure, if you will teach me russian. unfortunately this arrangement didn't last very long, so i didn't learn a whole lot. maybe you could offer to help one of your neighbours with english if they will teach you urdu.
urdu is very beautiful - one thing i like about it is you get to learn some arabic and farsi words as well and i can recognize many of the arabic words because they are similar to hebrew.
i am having a real hard time trying to study on my own. either i am a lot dumber than i was when i was young, or i thought i was much smarter than i really was!! partially, it is my own fault because i don't make myself work with the grammar. so i am getting an increasing vocabulary but can't really say much of anything, or put a sentence together. i've been at it for almost 4 years now. i can read articles from the bbc a lot of dictionary, the children's stories are of course the best.
i find the script normally used in urdu quite hard to read - tho
finally it is getting easier, but the fonts the bbc uses are not difficult to learn.
best is to learn some common friendly phrases here, so you can break the ice with your neighbours. i think when they see that you are trying to learn, they will warm up towards you. start with some simple greetings and work your way up to asking them if they will teach you if you teach them english.
good luck.
kittygyal - you're welcome.