Beginning Urdu: A Complete Course

This is an excellent book, with great explanation and exercises to support listening, speaking, reading and writing Urdu. I've been learning Urdu on and off for some time and this is the best book I've found. You can find the audio on the internet.

I've owned the Beginning Hindi book for a while and have completely finished it and I thought I might as well work for the Urdu one too. Just like the Hindi book, this book is fantastic. It has in-depth lessons, lots of exercises for practice, and lots of vocabulary lists to work with. I think this book is perfect for anyone looking into Urdu after learning Hindi, wanting to learn Urdu, or using it in conjunction with an Urdu class. Like the Hindi book, I really appreciated the slow and detailed sound and script lessons because it is one thing that tends to be missing from other Hindi/Urdu textbooks. There were also tons of dictation exercises in both books that were so useful for differentiating the sounds of the language. I highly recommend this book if you want to learn Urdu. If you work through it you will have a decent knowledge of the language afterward.

Book arrived fast and in good condition. Looks good and helpful. But in the description it is said that there is a CD accompanying the book. This CD is missing. As it is needed to follow the book this is really more than sad as it is not possible to buy the CD separately. So book just half helpful.and for this price it should be complete or it minimum should be mentioned that it comes without CD

I've been meaning to review this for a long time but never gotten around to it. This, and its Hindi counterpart, are easily two of my best language-learning books period, out of several dozen.Pros:- Clear-quality audio, and a good amount of it;- Printed in a readable size, which I find can be very frustrating in trying to study languages written in the Arabic-derived script;- Did a very good job teaching the Nastaliq style of handwriting, something I struggled to find elsewhere;- Presents fairly ordinary, everyday vocabulary, which is a wonderful change of pace from books that try to teach military, political and related vocabulary terms before the reader can even carry on a normal conversation;- The grammar explanations given are pretty good;- The appendix appears to include all vocabulary given, as well as grammar summaries;- There's a table with suggested amount of time to be dedicated toward various sections;And probably others that are slipping my mind.Cons:- I really wish this was bound in hardcover. That's literally the only bad thing I have to say about it.

This book is full of great content and learning materials. It provides a lot of vocabulary and sentence examples. Great resource to learn the language!

Having the hobby of learning languages, I was interested in learning Urdu because I thought it would be the easiest to learn since it's the closest to my native language, has almost the same script and has a lot of common vocabulary. Apparently, I was mistaken. A difficult language is difficult for everyone, it really didn't matter that I was lucky to get a boost by my native language and start at 30% common vocabulary (more if you include English), I still got 70% to go.I was looking for resources for learning Urdu and this book was the best one I found. In spite of this book's size, it was very simply written which is a positive thing especially if you are at the beginner's level. The vocabulary included are a lot less useful if you weren't in a classroom, and some of the exercises you cannot do without a partner. I would totally recommend this book, but maybe with other resources for vocabulary.Pros:1. Simple.2. Contains a mix of grammar, vocabulary, listening, and a lot of exercises.Cons:1. Formatted and written for a classroom, and not for self-study.2. A lot of the same vocabulary, many of which are classroom objects.3. Many exercises require partners.4. No answers for most of the exercises.5. Vocabulary are frequently written in romanized Urdu even after you learn how to write them in Urdu script.6. More suited for beginners, you still have to find other resources in order to reach fluency.