| Spoken by: | ~ 60 million (native) |
|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Pakistan, India, Fiji |
| Language family: | Indo-Aryan |
Urdu is the official language of North India, Pakistan, and Fiji.
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The Foreign Service Institute has classified Urdu as a "Hard" language. It is estimated that learning Urdu to a Professional Working Proficiency in the language (a score of Speaking-3/Reading-3 on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale) will take an average of 44 weeks (1100 class hours).[1]
Resources[]
Sublearning - Urdu to English movie subtitle flash cards
Pimsleur offers a course in Urdu
Rosetta Stone offers a course in Urdu
References[]
- ↑ U.S. Department of State; FSI's Experience with Language Learning; https://www.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/c78549.htm