Pimsleur Urdu Basic Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-10 CD: Learn To Speak And Understand Urdu With Pimsleur Language Programs (1)

Pimsleur Urdu Basic Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-10 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Urdu with Pimsleur Language Programs (1)

The Pimsleur Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. Completely portable, easily downloadable, and lots of fun. Youll be speaking and understanding in no time flat!This course includes Lessons 1-10 from the Urdu Level 1 Program - 5 hours of audio-only effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. Get a chance to test drive the incredibly effective and efficient, world-famous Pimsleur Program. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Urdu.The Urdu LanguageUrdu is the national language of Pakistan and an official language of the six states in North India with significant Muslim populations. Both Urdu and Hindi are standard registers of the Hindustani language. Before the Partition of India, the terms Hindustani, Urdu, and Hindi were synonymous. Today, though mutually intelligible, they differ in their technical and literary vocabularies with Urdu influenced heavily by Persian and Arabic and Hindi by Sanskrit. There are close to 70 million native speakers of Urdu.Tech Talk- CDs are formatted for playing in all CD players, including car players, and users can copy files for use in iTunes or Windows Media Player.