I am serious. I have started Hindi with Rosetta Stone in the interim. This is not very helpful for me, as the vocabulary is childish. Yes, I know Hindi is different, but as far as dialect continuum goes, the mutual intelligibility is pretty high from what I hear so I wanted to start somewhere. Please PM me if you can put me in touch with Urdu tutors. I am primarily interested in spoken Urdu, but would love if I can make my way into Urdu literature and poetry (I would love to be able to quote some Iqbal; I never bothered to read him if I cannot read the originals). I studied Arabic in university, so the advanced vocab from Arabic/Persian will excite me and they will not have to waste their time teaching me writing from scratch (I know there are obvious differences, but I can learn them).
I am serious. I have started Hindi with Rosetta Stone in the interim. This is not very helpful for me, as the vocabulary is childish. Yes, I know Hindi is different, but as far as dialect continuum goes, the mutual intelligibility is pretty high from what I hear so I wanted to start somewhere. Please PM me if you can put me in touch with Urdu tutors. I am primarily interested in spoken Urdu, but would love if I can make my way into Urdu literature and poetry (I would love to be able to quote some Iqbal; I never bothered to read him if I cannot read the originals). I studied Arabic in university, so the advanced vocab from Arabic/Persian will excite me and they will not have to waste their time teaching me writing from scratch (I know there are obvious differences, but I can learn them).