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Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series) 1st Edition

by Tej K Bhatia (Author), Ashok Koul (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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Colloquial Urdu provides a step-by-step course in Urdu as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Urdu in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

• structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar

• an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises

• realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios

• useful vocabulary lists throughout the text

• additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Urdu will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Urdu.

Course components:

The complete course comprises the book and audio materials. These are available to purchase separately in paperback, ebook, CD and MP3 format. The paperback and CDs can also be purchased together in the great-value Colloquials pack.

Paperback: 978-0-415-13540-5 (please note this does not include the audio)

CDs : 978-0-415-28950-4

eBook: 978-0-203-97730-9 (please note this does not include the audio, available from www.tandfebooks.com)

MP3s: 978-0-415-47058-2 (available from www.tandfebooks.com)

Pack : 978-0-415-44539-9 (paperback and CDs)

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  1. ISBN-10
    0415135400
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0415135405
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    August 8, 2000
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
  8. Print length
    368 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (August 8, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415135400
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415135405
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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Daniel Prendergast
3.0 out of 5 stars hmmmm...
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2003
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.
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perekladach
2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2009
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.
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Muhammad Evans
4.0 out of 5 stars Colloquial Urdu
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2013
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Although this book introduces to the Urdu language and gives many useful alternative words or phrases the lack of cursive script examples is very limiting particularly for learners accustomed to reading Arabic or Farsi for whom Urdu pronunciation is made easier by the shared indicators. Value for money but it falls short of high expectatons
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Dr Konrad Schneckenhauer
5.0 out of 5 stars A very good course - if your CDs arrive intact
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2008
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The two best Urdu courses currently available are this one and 'Teach Yourself Complete Urdu'. They are both excellent, but in different ways, so I'll make some comparisons to help you choose. I'll refer to 'Teach Yourself Complete Urdu' as 'TY' and 'Colloquial Urdu' as 'CU'.

Audio material
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Both courses come with CDs containing recordings of the dialogues, and much additional audio material. Be careful when ordering - it's not always clear from the product information whether you're ordering the book, or the CDs, or the pack containing both.

The TY audio material is much better - the actors really do act, and the dialogues flow well. Some of the actors in CU speak in a halting, disconnected way, which makes it hard to get a grip on how a sentence should flow. If you decide to buy CU, beware - the old-style plastic presentation box packaging, containing book and CDs, is hopeless inadequate because the CDs become detached from their anchor points and rattle around in the packaging, which means that they can get so scratched as to be unplayable.

Dialogues
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The TY dialogues are far more useful and practical, dealing with a wide range of everyday situations. The CU dialogues are good, but somewhat wayward in their choice of subject matter.

Writing Urdu
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If you want to learn just to speak Urdu, without learning to write, then TY is not for you, because later lessons do not contain transliteration of the dialogues, and you are left to fend for yourself with the Urdu script. You would do better with CU, where everything in the lessons is in transliteration, and the Urdu script versions of the dialogues are in an appendix at the back (in ridiculously tiny font - anyone over 45 who doesn't have a recently prescribed pair of reading glasses will struggle to read them). The Urdu script in TY is also very small and sometimes indistinct. Both TY and CU have good sections on learning Urdu script, but in CU these sections are totally divorced from the main body of the course. You will get far more practice in the script, and become far more fluent in it, if you opt for TY.

Grammar explanations
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TY is friendlier here, with easy to follow, full and lucid explanations of all grammatical points. CU is very good but uses some odd terminology and could be more lucid when explaining some of the more difficult points. TY provides fuller tabulation of grammatical forms in each lesson.

Transliteration
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I definitely prefer the CU transliteration system, but both are absolutely consistent and clear, and it's very much a personal matter - some people may prefer the TY system.

Summary
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The choice of course depends very much on whether you want to learn the script. If you don't, if you just want to learn to speak Urdu, then CU is the best choice. If you want to learn the script, then go for TY. Both courses are excellent in their different ways, despite any caveats above.
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Judy
5.0 out of 5 stars Not for begginers
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2019
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Nice book but you need help to understand urdu..it should have translation!
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Aftab Hussain
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2014
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Happy with purchase,would use seller again.
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