Lesson 1

Urdu is a very popular language of the subcontinent , second only in the number of speakers to Hindi. It is the national language of Pakistan and an offical language of UP in India . It is the language of poetry and of literature .You may freely copy these lessons for non commercial uses on to your web site , add sound files or modify them in any way you want

Urdu is written in the opposite direction to English ie from right to left.It is an easy language to write fast in , because it has a built in shorthand ! It is very important to read each line slowly and study each part of a figure closely the first time , and then re-read it carefully again to make the whole learning experience easy


This is the most important lesson so once again do it very slowly and carefully and the rest of the 20 or so lessons will then seem very easy

Each sound is represented by a letter . For example lets look at the letter K and N in in the next figure

Each letter is written in a slightly different form depending on whether it comes in the beginning , middle or end of a word or whether it occurs on its own ie in a detached form



The above figure has the detached , initial . medial and final forms of K and N. You may have noted that the detached and final form form are usually very similar.
Note again that the detached form is on your extreme right then the initial , medial and final.