Beginning Urdu - A Complete Course

Informationen zum Autor Joshua H. Pien is a faculty researcher and Hindi-Urdu language specialist at the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. Previously he was an assistant professor of Hindi at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. He has also taught Hindi at the University of Wisconsin. Fauzia Farooqui teaches Urdu and Hindi at Princeton University. She has also taught Urdu-Hindi at various other institutions, including the University of Virginia, the Defense Language Institute, University of Michigan, and the American Institute of Indian Studies in Lucknow, India. Her other publications include a monograph on the prose poem in Urdu and various original pieces of poetry, short fiction, and literary criticism, which have appeared in leading Urdu literary journals. Klappentext Beginning Urdu helps first-year learners acquire the language by using it in real-life situations. The book and its accompanying audio files-available on the Press website-include explanations of language structures and engaging activities to guide students through their first year of instruction. Zusammenfassung A complete first-year textbook that is designed to help learners acquire the language by actively using it in realistic situations. It develops all four skills-listening, speaking, reading, writing-through a range of tasks and activities, including role plays, games, and short conversations.

Product details

• Authors: Fauzia Farooqui, Joshua H. Pien, Joshua H. Farooqui Pien, Pien Joshua H.
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2012
• EAN: 9781589017788
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-778-8
• No. of pages: 688
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Urdu, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Indic Languages, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Language teaching and learning material and coursework