By TCN News
St. Louis, MO: A new website was launched today to help students become more proficient in Urdu. Site is called Intermediate Urdu and is hosted at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Talking to TwoCircles.net, principal investigator Dr. M. J. Warsi informed that this website is most useful for people with “a basic knowledge of Urdu or those who have taken two semester of language course in any university system.”
Intermediate Urdu comprises sixteen interactive reading passages with corresponding audio and English summaries, dynamic online quizzes, and thirteen video interviews of Urdu scholars. All content is directed towards students at the intermediate level and preparing them for advanced level proficiency.
Among the content to read or listen – a speech of Maulana Azad, Bagh-o-bahaar, Alif laila,
The site utilizes web-based Nastaliq font so that Nastaliq is natively displayed in the site without requiring the user to download an appropriate font.
The website is developed with a grant from the South Asia Language Resource Center at the University of Chicago. “We have plan to make “Advanced Urdu” and then “Beginning Urdu” websites to complete the sequence of Urdu learning,” said Dr. Warsi.
Link:
http://urdu.wustl.edu/