Teach Yourself Urdu Book/CD Pack (Teach Yourself Complete Courses) - Softcover

Dalvi, Mohamed; Matthews, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340913886 ISBN 13: 9780340913888

Publisher: Teach Yourself, 2005

Synopsis

TEACH YOURSELF URDU is a complete course in spoken and written Urdu. If you have never learnt Urdu before, or if your Urdu needs brushing up, this is the book you need.
David Matthews and Mohamed Kasim Dalvi have created a practical course that is both fun and easy to work through. They explain everything along the way and give you plenty of opportunities to practise what you have learnt. The course structure means that you can work at your own pace, arranging your learning to suit your needs.
The course contains:

- A range of graded units of dialogues, culture notes, grammar and exercises

- A step-by-step guide to pronunciation

- An Urdu-English vocabulary

- An introduction to Urdu script
By the end of the course you'll be able to cope with a whole range of situations and use the language confidently.
The book (0 340 86725 6) is accompanied by audio material on two cassettes (0 340 86727 2) or CDs (0 340 91389 4), and is available for purchase either separately or as packs with the book (book/cassette pack: 0 340 86726 4; book/CD pack: 0 340 91388 6).

About this title

Book Description:

This double CD pack provides support to the coursebook 'Teach Yourself Urdu', 9780340958841.

About the Author:

David Matthews taught Urdu and Nepali at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London for over thirty years. He has written 17 publications on aspects of Urdu and Nepali language and literature and also worked towards his own PhD on the Urdu of the medieval Deccan. He takes an active part in the activities of Urdu-speaking communities of the UK and Europe, and he has a special interest in the teaching and examining of Urdu in British schools. He is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain.

Mohamed Kasim Dalvi has been Head Urdu and co-ordinator for Community Languages for a London Borough. He is currently Chair of Examinations (Urdu) for Edexcel and teaches at SOAS Language Centre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teach Yourself
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0340913886
• ISBN 13: 9780340913888
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336