Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series) [Audio Cassette]

Tej K. Bhatia (Author), Ashok Koul (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415135427 | ISBN-13: 978-0415135429 | Publication Date: August 23, 2000 | Edition: Cassette

Colloquial Urdu is easy to use and completely up to date! Written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step by step approach to written and spoken Urdu. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes Colloquial Urdu your best choice in personal language learning?
* interactive - lots of exercises for regular practice
* clear - concise grammar notes
* practical - useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
* complete - including answer key and special reference section
By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Urdu in a broad range of everyday situations.

 Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CD/MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquials Pack.

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Language Notes

Text: English --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Routledge; Cassette edition (August 23, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415135427
• ISBN-13: 978-0415135429
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.8 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,424,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars hmmmm..., November 12, 2003

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Daniel Prendergast (London UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series) (Paperback)

This book is fine, a pretty hum-drum outfit like any other 'teach yourself' book. It's pretty good. However, I'm writing this review to let people know that the 'handwriting units' are utterly useless, unless you actually wanted to learn an incomplete alphabet in a childish scrawl. Also, the printed nasta'liq is very tiny, spidery and hard to read. If you have no previous knowledge of Arabic or a derived script, I cannot imagine how you will manage.
I recommend 'Urdu Grammar' by Ruth Laila Schmidt.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, May 12, 2009

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perekladach (Carbondale, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series) (Paperback)

This book is really a knock-off of the author's 'Colloquial Hindi'. Of course the two languages do share a vast vocabulary and grammar in common, but what it really means here is that if you already have one of these books (the Hindi would be the better one to get) you really don't need the other. The dialogues, grammar and exercises are all in a phonetic transcription and only the dialogues (in the back of the book) are given in the nastaliq script. The printing of this beautiful and ornately detailed script is so tiny that it is literally necessary to use a magnifying lens to read it.