OK I am asking this to those born/raised in the west or where they might not have been taught urdu in school.
Can you read and write urdu? How did you learn?
As for me, well I was taught to speak by my parents as we always spoke it in the home , reading we were taught a little in the masjid but not a great teacher but got the basics. I can read and write very well actually alhamdulillah. The way I got better was firstly my mum used to bring the Daily Jang newspaper to read ( before sky TV etc) and every Wednesday they had a section called Bacho ki Jang ( i think this was the name…bacho ki something anyway ) and I would take out that section, it was full of jokes, short stories. I then progressed onto reading the 3 aurtain stories my mum would read these then I got reading myself and just got better and better. If I was stuck on something of course mum helped out. Writing was good but reading was better, but then I practised writing alot, I then got alot of practice when I married and would write sweet love letters to mu hubz , any thing I was unsure of I wrote in enhlish but mostly it was in urdu.
When my hubz came to the UK, he taught GCSE urdu for about 2 years before leaving to concentrate on his business, he would bring home past GCSE papers and as I was a SAHM with my little boy I would sit doing these all day and have him check them.
He said that if I did the exam I would get an A for sure
**since ALL Muslims can at least read Arabic, i'm sure with a lil help one can learn to read urdu and also with a lil more help he/she can write urdu as well. there is'nt much difference in urdu and arabic letters....urdu has a few more due to influence from Hindi like 'bha, pha, Thaa' etc.
so, it's a blessing to know how to read arabic...this will help greatly in learning to read N write urdu.**
, any thing I was unsure of I wrote in enhlish but mostly it was in urdu.
