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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
• Main Kar Saktā Hūṉ · I Can · Level 19, The power word saknā, say what you can (and can't) do
• Chāhiye! · Wants & Needs · Level 20, Need it, want it, should do it, the chāhiye family
• Sab Se Behtar · Comparisons · Level 21, Bigger than, best of all, compare anything with one little se
• Agar Aur Jab · If & When · Level 22, Conditions and timing, the hinge words of real conversation
• Kar Lo, De Do · Compound Verbs · Level 23, The flavor system, lena, dena, jana change a verb's direction
• Safar Bakhair · The Train Journey · Level 24, The B1 capstone, buy the ticket, find the seat, ride the rails
• Jo–Wo · Which and That · Level 25, Relative clauses, the hinge of every complex sentence
• Bolī Jātī Hai · The Passive · Level 26, How signs, news, and polite distance are phrased
• Shāyad Ho · Maybe, Hopefully · Level 27, Doubt, hope, and educated guessing, the grammar of politeness
• Karnā, Karānā, Karwānā · The Causative Ladder · Level 28, Do it, make it happen, have it done, three rungs of one verb
• Sher-e-Punjab · The Izāfat · Level 29, The Persian hinge in every grand title, and the formal register
• Dāwat · The Capstone Evening · Level 30, A whole evening as the mehmān, every B2 pattern at one table
• 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
• Joṛ · Letters That Hold Hands · Reading unit 7, How letters change shape when they join, the key to real reading
• Paṛho! · Real Reading · Reading unit 8, Menus, signs, and invitations, connected text in the wild
• Kahānī · Little Stories · Reading unit 9, Your first connected Urdu prose, three tiny tales from words you know
• Kahānī 2 · More Stories · Reading unit 10, Two more little stories, an invitation, and bazaar bargaining
• Chiṛiyā Ghar · A Trip to the Zoo · Reading unit 11, every animal you can point at, in Urdu
• Duniyā kā Naqshā · The World in Urdu · Reading unit 12, countries whose Urdu names will surprise you
• Rishtay · The Family Tree · Reading unit 13, four aunts, four uncles, and why the words matter
• Ghar · At Home · Reading unit 14, the things in your house, and what you do all day
• Jism aur Mizāj · Body and Mood · Reading unit 15, head to toe, plus how you feel and when
• Shehr aur Mausam · Town and Weather · Reading unit 16, where you are going, and what the sky is doing
• Khānā aur Kapṛe · Food and Clothes · Reading unit 17, what is on the table, and what you are wearing
• Kahānī 3 · Purānī Kahāniyāṉ · Reading unit 18, two folk tales the whole world tells, now in your Urdu
• Kahānī 4 · Do Aur Kahāniyāṉ · Reading unit 19, the thirsty crow and the boy who cried bheṛiyā
• 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
• Tehzeeb · The Art of Aadab · Heritage unit 4, takalluf, titles, and the manners built into the language
• Mushaira · The Poetry Gathering · Heritage unit 5, the live show where Urdu poetry has always lived
• PTV Golden Age · Screen Urdu · Heritage unit 6, the dramas, announcers, and songs that taught a nation its accent
• Khattati · The Written Art · Heritage unit 7, from master calligraphers to truck art. Urdu as a thing of beauty
• Muhāvare · The Idiom Machine · Heritage unit 8, what Urdu says versus what Urdu means
• Ramzān aur Eid · The Great Month · Heritage unit 9, the vocabulary of fasting, moon-sighting, and the sweetest morning of the year
• The Tapped R · ر · Sound School 1, The flappy R you already say in the middle of 'butter'
• The Retroflex Curl · ٹ ڈ ڑ · Sound School 2, Curl the tongue back, the sounds that make Urdu sound like Urdu
• The Dental Touch · ت د · Sound School 3, Soft Ts and Ds, right against the teeth
• The Puff of Air · بھ پھ تھ · Sound School 4, Aspiration, consonants that ride out on a breath
• From the Throat · خ غ ق · Sound School 5, The deep sounds English doesn't have
• The Nasal Hum · ں · Sound School 6, Send the sound through your nose
• 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
• Zubānein · Pakistan's Languages · Pakistan break 7, Urdu is the bridge, not the whole country