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Dutch born, wife to an Indian, mother of a trilingual son. We live in Ireland but currently on a long family visit in India. Using this time to pick up my Urdu studies again and improve a lot since I'm surrounded by the language 24/7 now. In the 5 years I've known my husband I've always struggled with studying Urdu since the engaging self-study materials are very limited and I cannot balance time for consistent one-on-one tutoring. Also my husband is from Hyderabad, so the family speaks the Dakkani dialect which is fairly different from the "Pakistani Urdu" taught all the time.
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Sara سارہ
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Mar 31, 2021
Bht khoob. Michelle bht hi khush mizaj talib ilm hain. in sey bat krke hamesha dilli khushi hoti he. Inki Urdu may bht tezi sey behtri aayi he. Mjhe yaqeen he ke inko Urdu mazeed behter hojaigi. Koshish jari rakhiye Khush mizaj: pleasant dilli khushi: heartfelt pleasure tezi sey: fast yaqeen: belive behtri: betterment jari: continue
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  • Commented
    If money is a problem, there are still quite some cheap teachers on here that you can take lessons with :) It helps a lot for practice.
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    August 17, 2020
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  • Corrected
    Tekstje Verhaaltje over een gesprek met een vriend (<em>tekstje is not incorrect in itself, but for the sake of the 'natural flow' of the sentence, verhaaltje suits a lot better</em>)

    Thomas: hoi Jen! Is jouw moeder beter voel en? Voelt je moeder zich nu beter
    Jen: hoi Thomas!!! Ja, ze voelt zich nu veel heel goed. Wij zijn vorig<s style="background-color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">e</s> weekend op de het strand geweest.
    Thomas: wat leuk!
    Jen: een jou? en jij Wat heb je vorig<s style="background-color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">e</s> weekend gedaan?
    Thomas: ik was heel het druk want tijdens Juli had ik veel werk Ik was heel druk want de hele maand juli had ik veel werk te doen
    Jeb: oh... Wat jammer. En wat hebben jouw kinderen gezegd? En wat vonden jouw kinderen hiervan? (<em>your sentence is not necessarily wrong, but based on the context it does not fit very well and does not sound 'natural')</em>
    Thomas: zij hebben gezegd zeiden dat zij vakantie willen (<em>again, not wrong, but less natural</em>)
    Jen: Goed! Je zal met een vakantiewinkel afspreken (<em>I have no clue what a 'vakantiewinkel'/vacation shop is exactly and why Thomas has to meet with it :D so I don't know what you try to tell with this sentence</em>)
    Thomas: ja hoor. Leuk je te zien
    Jen: tot ziens
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    August 15, 2020
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  • Answered
    Yes, this is absolutely fine! The only thing you can change is the order of the words. For an even better flow, you can say: Mijn broer koopt dat koffiemerk elke maand bij Walmart. Saying 'dat koffiemerk' instead of 'dat merk koffie' also makes it even better. This is a very precise correction though which will make it sound more 'native'. Your original sentence is not wrong :)
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    August 15, 2020
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  • Answered
    Yes, this is absolutely fine! The only thing you can change is the order of the words. For an even better flow, you can say: Mijn broer koopt dat koffiemerk elke maand bij Walmart. Saying 'dat koffiemerk' instead of 'dat merk koffie' also makes it even better. This is a very precise correction though which will make it sound more 'native'. Your original sentence is not wrong :)
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    August 15, 2020
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  • Commented
    Ohh thanks so much! I can already read the script very well though. I have trouble without vowel markers just because my vocabulary is not good enough yet to always know which vowels I should read :D Unfortunately even children's books are virtually never printed with vowel markers...
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    August 12, 2020
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  • Commented
    Thanks guys. If anyone can give me tips on multimedia resources and (children's) books in Nastaliq that include vowel signs, please let me know!
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    August 12, 2020
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    I can totally imagine! I admire people who practice verbally with so much ease. It takes me a long time to get comfortable speaking unfortunately. It's easier for me to acquire theoretical knowledge, but then when speaking it becomes hard. And then I know people who get fluent within months, which is always because they dare to speak a lot :)
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    August 10, 2020
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  • Corrected
    Mijn achtertuin in de zomer - graag proeflezen <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">graag</s>

    Ik heb een beetje grote dan kleine achtertuin(<em>I'm not sure what you want to say here exactly</em>). In de zomer <s style="background-color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">ik </s>groei ik graag groenten en kruiden in mijn tuin. Twee weken geleden <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">ik </s>plantte ik tomaten, courgettes, spinazie, wortels, <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">beet </s>bieten en veel peper <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">vanaf zaden</s>. Eerste ik lig zaad in een kleine pak binnen mijn thuis op the ruimte(<em>This sentence is very confusing. Not sure what you want to say exactly. Let me know in English, just like the previously orange-marked sentence</em>). <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">Dan </s>Daarna <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">ik </s>geef ik het water en zonneschijn. Achter dan ik lig het (<em>not sure what you want to say here</em>) de <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">keline </s>kleine plant in mijn tuin in de aarde. <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">Ik heb kruiden lijk</s> De kruiden die ik heb zijn munt, <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">basil </s>basilicum, knoflook, gember en kurkuma. <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">Elke dag ik krijg veel kruiden voor kooken</s>. Hierdoor heb ik elke dag veel kruiden voor bij het koken.
    Ik <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">heb </s>ben heel gelukkig wanneer ik <s style="background-color: rgb(240, 102, 102);">tuineren </s>tuinier.

    Dank je wel!
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    August 10, 2020
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  • Commented
    There are quite some very different words in Dakhani compared to what they speak in Pakistan though, but you get used to it and it's fine. Learning the dialect would make it easier for me, but it's not like Dakhani is a complete different language, so that's a major plus. And when it comes to the 'reverse case'. Yes, it's usually like that. My native language is Dutch (from the Netherlands), but it ain't easy to speak the dialects they use in Belgium and some Caribbean countries. Understanding it is easier.

    Thanks for the textbook suggestion! Textbook-wise I'm already set. I'm using the book from Teach Yourself. It's very good.
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    August 8, 2020
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  • Commented
    Okay my plan was not to start a discussion about dialects :D But anyway, I know it is called Dakhani, but people also call it Hyderabadi Urdu. My husband is from Hyderabad and even in the south of India they speak different dialects of Urdu. So Dakhani is not actually one dialect. There are different dialects within this dialect. And barely anything is used in Pakistani Urdu, true. But that's just an unfortunate fact I have to juggle while learning Urdu, haha. People who speak a Dakhani dialect can understand Pakistani Urdu, so there's no problem there whatsoever.
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    August 8, 2020
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