Re: All you guppies living abroad!!
several times a week for both.
once I had the basics going, my parents bought us tons of urdu books ranging from taalem o tarbiyat to, naunehaal, bacchon ki dunya,
from grade 5 onwards I studied urdu formally as my parents decided that Pakistan Embassy school. So I had an edge compared to kids overseas who did not go to schools where urdu was taught, but to this day I am surprised that I did better in urdu during my 2 years for high school in Pakistan than majority of my classmates who were born and raised in Pakistan.
Later I was heavily into books by ishtaiq ahmed, and later ibn e safi, shafeed ur rehman, Mushtaq Yusufi, Ibn e Insha etc which really helped.
For me the 2 factors that were most important were
- speaking urdu at home with the parents
- books, books and more books