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• Salaam! · Greetings · Level 1 — Your first words — greet anyone, anywhere
• Mulaqat · Introductions · Level 2 — Say who you are, ask who they are
• Ginti · Numbers · Level 3 — Count to ten, ask 'how many?'
• Khandan · Family & People · Level 4 — Talk about the people in your life
• Khana · Food & Requests · Level 5 — Order food, ask prices, praise the cook
• Sawalat · Question Words · Level 6 — Ask anything — the seven little keys
• Kaam · Essential Verbs · Level 7 — Eat, drink, go, come — the engines of every sentence
• Waqt · Time & Days · Level 8 — Today, tomorrow, and the word that means both
• Rang aur Pasand · Colors & Likes · Level 9 — Say what you love — in full color
• Guftagu · At the Chai Dhaba · Level 10 — The capstone: a real conversation, start to finish
• Raste · Places & Directions · Level 11 — Get anywhere: left, right, straight, and 'where is…?'
• Mausam · Weather · Level 12 — The world's most reliable small talk
• Dil ki Batain · Feelings & Small Talk · Level 13 — Say how you are — and bless like a local
• Mazi · Yesterday's Stories · Level 14 — The past tense — kal finally picks a direction
• Mustaqbil · Tomorrow's Plans · Level 15 — The future tense — and kal pays off twice
• Mat Karo · No, Don't, Stop · Level 16 — Negation and commands — with courtesy built in
• Bari Ginti · Big Numbers · Level 17 — 11 to 100 — landmarks through the beautiful chaos
• Shaadi Mein · At the Wedding · Level 18 — The grand capstone — survive and shine as a wedding guest
• The Script · Meet Nastaliq · Reading unit 1 — Right to left, flowing like calligraphy
• Shape-shifters · Letter Forms · Reading unit 2 — How letters change when they join
• Vowels · The Invisible Ink · Reading unit 3 — Long vowels you see, short vowels you guess
• First Words · Read for Real · Reading unit 4 — Sound out words you already know
• Ginti · Urdu Numerals · Reading unit 5 — Read prices, plates, and clock faces
• Board Parhiye · Signboards · Reading unit 6 — Read the street like a local
• Virsa · Poems & Rhymes · Heritage unit 1 — The verses every Urdu speaker grew up on
• Kahawatain · Proverbs · Heritage unit 2 — The one-liners every aunty has locked and loaded
• Ghazal 101 · Poetry's Crown · Heritage unit 3 — How Urdu's signature art form actually works
• Awaazain · The Urdu Mouth · Sound School 1 — Rolled Rs, curled Ts, puffs of air — train the tricky sounds
• Naqsha · Geography · Pakistan break 1 — K2, the Indus, and five very different provinces
• Saqafat · Culture · Pakistan break 2 — Truck art, qawwali, dramas, and competitive hospitality
• Tareekh · History · Pakistan break 3 — 5,000 years: Indus cities to Independence
• Khel · Sports · Pakistan break 4 — Cornered tigers, squash dynasties, and polo in the sky
• Dastarkhwan · Food · Pakistan break 5 — A regional eating tour, from nihari dawn to falooda midnight
• Qudrat · Nature & Wildlife · Pakistan break 6 — Corkscrew horns, blind dolphins, and leopards made of snow