Let s Study Urdu: An Introduction Course

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If you already know Hindi then learning Urdu is mostly about learning a new alphabet and some new vocabulary. I've been studying Hindi since five years but noticed that there was a clear difference between my Hindi courses and Bollywood songs. Turns out that many of the songs were written by Muslims who would be speaking Urdu. And Let's Study Urdu includes song lyrics from both classic and rare Bollywood songs. No other language book that I know of does this. Also, this book has fun with the dialogs that are a full mix of Indian and Western reference (for example, Boston x{0026} Maharashtra, Shahrukh Kahn and Madonna). But one thing that totally knocked me over was that I'd been mispronouncing "ghazal" all these years (the GH is closer to a French R than an English GH). Now that I've been studying Urdu I feel like I know the Urdu-Hindi language better than I used to. My fondness for it is now much greater