Time to cash in. Every word below is one you learned in the speaking levels, now decode it letter by letter. Read right to left, find the shapes, let the dots guide you.
شکریہshukriya: thank youshīn + kāf + re + ye + choṭī he
Good to know
✨ You just read اردو, the language's own name, in its own script. The alif–re break and the dāl–wā'o break mean this four-letter word sits in three separate pieces.
✨ Urdu spelling is far more regular than English: once you know the letters, most words read exactly as written. No 'though/tough/through' nonsense.
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