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Here's part of my Urdu Collection. I have Hifz'd some of these books by heart, and can quote page and line # with my eyes closed. Joking. But some of them I have read for like a dozen times over.
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And you have the surma applicator too. Hahahahahhaaha
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I had done part of grade 6 when I moved to Canada. Therefore, I learned to read and write my basic Urdu at school and we always spoke in Urdu at home. So alhamdulillah I didn’t encounter any difficulties.
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madhane neat stuff but your collection is a bit confoosing. looking at it u can't figure out whether your a man or woman. You've got this great urdu and punjabi collection next to some right old dodgy books like daughters of arabia, princess, mistress of spice, pakistani bride, the troble with islam and to top it off the da vinci code. thats just downright blasphemous.
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Madhanee i want to see you wearing that surma :D
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I stole the Surmchee from my mother. I also have a neat little brass jewelry case from Muradabad (my maternal great grandfather brought it from one of his visists to India). My ancestors were Lohar and worked with metal. I have always found metal work fascinating.
FF ji. I have switched to Mascara now. You know I have green card and nationality now.
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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
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Afia… during the early classes say… upto grades 4/5, we had a tutor who taught both Urdu as well as Quranic recitation - a 2-in-1 sort of thing… and after that essentially parents made sure that Urdu was available at every school they put us in… I remember in a couple of schools, all the Paki parents got together and requested the school admin to offer Urdu as a course and actually helped recruit a teacher as well 
- then during GCSEs’ & A-Levels, folks made sure we had Urdu as a formal course component as well.
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i studied in school 
jahil qaum :o
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Ishtiaq Ahmed or Asfaq Ahmed?
Shabnama I guess is one of the favourite books among people who love to read urdu literature, especially men.
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Aside from two years in Pakistan, have never learned Urdu. It was never taught at any of our schools or by our parents.
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ishtiaq ahmed, you know mehmood farooq farzana, inspector jamshed, khan rehman, kamran mirza, shoki brothers and the like.
ashfaq ahmed was at a much later stage.
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hoti hay, you pathan? 
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i met a pathan two days ago. he was :love: deep hazel eyes. deep dimples in both the cheeks. he said my eyes looked like “jheel saif al malook”. i said i thought a “jheel” was supposed to be blue. he said the actual color of the jheel is green. i was 
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^ hence the song...
aankhoN hi aankhoN me ishara ho geya...
*baithe baithe jeene ka sahara ho geya :D *
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but i crushed his hopes into tiny pieces when he asked me, “so when do you plan to marry” 
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thank you all! :)
hmmmm....so seems i'm on the right track n its not a biggie if i continue it during the week tooo!!
i'll try to get him as many books as i can , once he gets a bit fluent.....!!
thank you once again!!!
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lost me there, whose sheena and whose buddy? and dont go on your usual non sense where nothing means anything
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I think being bilingual or trilingual is a great skill...and best learned the younger you are...thus I would hope to have my children speaking urdu young and then perhaps teach them to read once they can read arabic for the quran. I have taken persian b/c urdu was not offerend in college and it did help my urdu reading but i'm out of practice and it takes ages...i can not write urdu.
I also took an urdu poetry class in college which I loved...amaizing..