learning Urdu

guess who got an A for urdu exams lolllll cor blimey, whats the world coming to....

gud gud bro mashaAllah guess who failed urdu

ma'salamah

format_quote Originally Posted by hyper~gal

gud gud bro mashaAllah guess who failed urdu

ma'salamah

i think u

yess n i have to re-sit tis a good thing because i'm gonna concentrate now rather than trying to change the time forward so teacher goes early lol i like urdu thanks to the urdu thread [serious alhamdulillah thanks to you bro naj esp n the rest ima concentrate now ]

and i'm soooo off topic

ma'salamah

format_quote Originally Posted by hyper~gal

yess n i have to re-sit tis a good thing because i'm gonna concentrate now rather than trying to change the time forward so teacher goes early lol i like urdu thanks to the urdu thread [serious alhamdulillah thanks to you bro naj esp n the rest ima concentrate now ]

and i'm soooo off topic

ma'salamah

sister inshallah u willpass

u can ask questions me and zak will try to answer insaAllah

thing is lol im rubbish at urdu, writing and speaking, well speaking not exactly fluent....i must have banked me marks on the reading n listening papers...

u fail? thats it, i think u need 2 see my former urdu teacher LoL, no dont lol..he says there are a 100 minutes in a hour...

lolz at 100 mins in an hour, no seriously my urdu teacher doesnt know how to teach her lessons draaaaggg i really wish we had another teacher i wanna learn but sometimes a subject depends also on the teacher well thats wat i feel, she's a nice person but teaching isnt her thing,
bro naj jazakAllah khair jiddan jiddan and zAk he'll give me the but yeh ima bug him aswell, ima bug you both acha

ma'salamah

format_quote Originally Posted by glo

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!!

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.