Learn Urdu with Beginner Stories: Interlinear Urdu to English
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Best way to learn Urdu by reading Learn Urdu with classic Urdu fairy tales. The best way to learn Urdu just by reading. No need to look up words with our interlinear material! We have added a word for word interlinear translation to the Urdu text. This means that the meaning of every Urdu word is immediately accessible, which in turn will make it much easier for you to expand your Urdu vocabulary fast. For those who are unfamiliar with the script, we advise to first learn the script but we still added a romanization of the Urdu on top of the script in the first three chapters! For pronunciation after that, check out our free audio on our website. How to learn Urdu with this book Use the following method to learn Urdu vocabulary fast and easy. Read the stories and re-read them until you know almost all the words. This is a fast process because there's no lookup time. Then focus on the remaining words that you still don't know by marking those in the text or noting their pages. Because of the literal and idiomatic interlinear text this is the best way to learn Urdu reading fast. Also, contact us on shop.hyplern.com for non-translated pdf versions of this book with which you can practice reading Urdu without the interlinear translation. The same goes for the mp3s that go with the text. The best app to learn Urdu is also available for this book, HypLern Online. For import on Paperwhite, just ask us for a pdf once you bought the Kindle or Paperback version of this book. The HypLern project has been creating manually word-for-word translated language material since 2006. The aim of our project is to allow students to start reading the language of their choice immediately, and expand their vocabulary fast. Learn Urdu from the basics just by reading from day one. Check out our HypLern interlinear Dutch, German, Russian, Spanish or other languages on desertcart as well! Review: Not the best - Doesn’t really help much . Gives you a few sentences to match words but nothing that tells you how to pronounce them correctly Review: Great for those wanting to qrite or even speak urdu. - Really easy to follow. Its helped my pronunciation of urdu words a lot as well!
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| Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 39 Reviews |
C**A
Not the best
Doesn’t really help much . Gives you a few sentences to match words but nothing that tells you how to pronounce them correctly
C**E
Great for those wanting to qrite or even speak urdu.
Really easy to follow. Its helped my pronunciation of urdu words a lot as well!
M**A
Interessting
Could be useful to compleat students book
C**N
Beautiful stories but the book has major failings for an Urdu learner
I feel this book represents a wasted opportunity. It contains some beautiful, presumably traditional stories in Urdu, and the idea of looking for a different method of language learning is worth considering, although personally I feel that without explanations of grammar points it could only be one part of learning a language rather than the single way. For me, the problem the book that there is no consistent method of transliterating Urdu into English. This should have been clearly set out before the story texts were given. For example, aspirated Urdu sounds are sometimes shown with an ‘h’, sometimes not. Sometimes unaspirated sounds are shown with an ‘h’. Vowel sounds are represented with no particular system. so that for instance in a single line an English “ay’ sound can be represented as ‘ay’ or ‘ee’. Another problem, for me as a beginner (the book is supposed to be for beginners) is that nowhere are we given a good English translation of the stories. I occasionally found that even with English words given below the Urdu, I could not make sense of a line. It is possible to download MP3 audio versions of the stories. These do help - without them I would have given up on this book altogether. However the readings are fairly fast for beginners, and slowing the recordings down inevitably distorts the language. Subtleties of pronunciation are not always easy for a beginner to pick out of a spoken text. I would very much like to see this book republished after much more care and thought have been given to it.
R**N
Total failure of a book
Dont waste your money on the Kindle version as the formatting totally fails and makes it totally unreadable.
P**R
Kindle buyers beware
This is a great idea for a book, but a warning to buyers of the Kindle edition: on my iPad the formatting completely collapses, so it’s unusable. I guess I’ll have to buy the print version, but it isn’t really what I wanted.
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