Learn Urdu (اردو🔊)

No. Start with spoken Urdu in Roman letters, and let the script come second. Learners who speak first stay motivated far longer than learners who drill letters for a month before saying a word.

السلام علیکم🔊🔊 for respect, ہاں🔊🔊 and نہیں🔊🔊, شکریہ🔊🔊, معاف کیجیے🔊🔊, ٹھیک ہے🔊🔊, and میں🔊🔊 — I. With those seven you can open any interaction politely while your vocabulary grows underneath.

The retroflexes and Persian-Arabic sounds — ع غ ق خ🔊🔊 — plus reading right-to-left. Ten minutes of daily listening retunes your ears within weeks; the pronunciation page walks you through each one.