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Basic Urdu
Basic Urdu is a theme-based, interactive open-source online textbook for the true novice learners of the Urdu language. The book uses mixed pedagogical approaches to language teaching to match diverse teaching and learning styles. It aims to help learners achieve intermediate low to mid-proficiency levels set by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
- Author
- Rajiv Ranjan
- Publisher
- Michigan State University
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY
- Language
- EN
Contents· 79 sections
- 01: Urdu and Urdu Script
- 1.01: Urdu Script
- 1.02: Alif and Non-Connectors
- 1.03: be Jim and sin Series
- 1.04: kaaf gaaf swad zwad fe qaaf toe zoe
- 1.05: laam mim nun ain ghain
- 1.06: chhoti ye baRi ye do chashmi he chhoti he hamza
- 02: Beginning Conversations
- 2.01: Review Concepts from Chapter 1
- 2.02: Greetings and Introductions
- 2.03: Informal Conversation
- 2.04: Formal Conversation
- 2.05: Study Abroad
- 2.06: Grammar- Gender and Number
- 2.07: Personal Pronouns with Verb To Be
- 2.08: 2.8 Cultural Notes and Extra Optional Online Materials
- 03: Chapter 3. Family
- 3.01: Review Concepts from Chapter 2
- 3.02: Reading Listening 1-
- 3.03: Reading Listening 2-
- 3.04: Study Abroad
- 3.05: Grammar- Adjectives
- 3.06: Apostrophe S (s) in Urdu
- 3.07: Degrees of Adjectives
- 3.08: Wh Questions Interrogative Sentence
- 3.09: Cultural Notes and Extra Optional Online Materials
- 04: Describing Places
- 4.01: Review Concepts from Chapter 3
- 4.02: Reading Listening 1-
- 4.03: Reading Listening 2-
- 4.04: Reading Listening 2-
- 4.05: Study Abroad
- 4.06: Post-Positions
- 4.07: Oblique Case
- 4.08: There Construction
- 4.09: Cultural Notes and Extra Optional Online Materials
- 05: Expressing Likes Dislikes Needs and Possession
- 5.01: Review of Chapter 4
- 5.02: Reading Listening I-
- 5.03:
- 5.04: Study Abroad
- 5.05: Verb To be in the Past Tense
- 5.06: Subjects with
- 5.07: Need
- 5.08: Expressing Possession in Urdu
- 5.09: Cultural Notes and Extra Optional Online Materials
- 06: Giving Instructions and Making Requests
- 6.01: Review of Chapter 5
- 6.02: Reading Listening 1-
- 6.03: Reading Listening 2-
- 6.04: Reading Listening 3-
- 6.05: Study Abroad
- 6.06: Verbs
- 6.07: Imperative Construction
- 6.08: Objects with and
- 6.09: Expressing Obligations and Suggestions
- 6.10: Cultural Notes and Extra Optional Online Materials
- 07: Expressing Past Present and Future Actions
- 7.01: Review of Chapter 6
- 7.02: Reading Listening 1-
- 7.03: Reading Listening 2-
- 7.04:
- 7.05: Study Abroad
- 7.06: Grammar- Tense and Aspect
- 7.07: Grammar- The Present and Past Habitual Tense
- 7.08: The Present and Past Progressive Tense
- 7.09: Grammar- Simple Future Tense
- 7.10: Cultural Notes and Extra Optional Online Materials
- 08: Talking About the Past and Completed Actions
- 8.01: Review of Chapter 7
- 8.02: Reading Listening 1-
- 8.03: Reading Listening 2-
- 8.04: Reading Listening 3-
- 8.05: Study Abroad
- 8.06: Grammar- Perfective Aspect
- 8.07: Construction
- 8.08: Conjunct Verbs
- 8.09: Subjunctive Mood
- 8.10: Cultural Notes and Extra Optional Online Materials