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Teach Yourself Beginner's Urdu Script

by Richard Delacy

- this book teachers you to read and write the Urdu script its most common form: Nasta'liq. It shows you the shapes of each of the letters and how they fit together.

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Teach Yourself Urdu

by David Matthews & Mohamed Kasim Dalvi

- an up-to-date course in spoken and written Urdu suitable for beginners. Includes a course book containing dialogues, grammatical notes, exercises and cultural information, together with CDs with recordings of some of the dialogues and exercises.

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Urdu for Beginners

by Khawaja M. Zakariya

- quite a basic introduction to the Urdu language. A knowledge of the Urdu script is necessary to get the most from this course.

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Talk Now! Urdu

by Eurotalk

- a basic introduction to Urdu. Includes dialogues, exercises, games, tests and notes in numerous languages. Introduces a fairly limited amount of vocabulary and phrases, but does so in an effective and fun way.

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Colloquial Urdu: The Complete Course for Beginners

by Tej Bhatia

- an introduction to spoken and written Urdu. Includes a course book containing dialogues, grammatical notes, exercises and cultural information. Two audio cassettes with recordings of some of the dialogues and exercises are also available.

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The Oxford Elementary Learner's English-Urdu Dictionary

by Nicholas Awde

- this dictionary is intended for Urdu speakers learning English, but is also useful to English speakers learning Urdu.

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Urdu-English/English-Urdu Dictionary and Phrasebook: Romanized

by Nicholas Awde

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Urdu: A Essential Grammar

by Ruth Laila Schmidt

- a clear, fairly comprehensive Urdu grammar reference book.

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