Gregory Maxwell Bruce

Urdu Vocabulary (eBook, PDF)

A Workbook for Intermediate and Advanced Students

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Take your Urdu vocabulary from intermediate to advanced

• Improve your vocabulary in the Arabic, Persian, Hindi and Sanskrit registers of Urdu
• Work through progressive exercises to practice your language skills
• Learn more about the culture of Urdu-speaking countries with the discussions of linguistic exchange, literature and philology
• For intermediate and advanced learners of Urdu, who are already familiar with Urdu script and basic grammar

This textbook is designed to develop intermediate and advanced students'' Urdu language skills. By learning about the mechanics of word-building, you''ll improve your proficiency in reading, writing and speaking. Each module is based on a register from another language and follows the same structure, with an explanatory introduction illustrated with carefully chosen examples, followed by a range of practical exercises to help you improve and test your skills.

Urdu Vocabulary complements college-level Urdu language and literature courses as well as self-study, making it an ideal resource for students, translators, researchers and scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474467216
• Artikelnr.: 72412543

Autorenporträt

Gregory Maxwell Bruce is a Lecturer in Urdu at the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor and translator of Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue by Shibli Nu'mani (Syracuse UP, 2019) and a regular contributor to Brill's online Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He has previously taught Urdu courses at University of Texas, Austin in 2008 - 2016 and at the South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and How to Use this Book
1. Urdu and English: Shared Histories, Shared Vocabularies
2. The Arabic Element
3. The Hindi Element
4. The Persian Element
5. The Prakrit and Sanskrit Element
Appendix I. Arabic Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix II: Hindi Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix III: Persian Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix IV: Sanskrit Verbal Noun Charts
Index of Topics and Lessons.