Joshua H. Pien

Broschiertes Buch

Beginning Urdu

A Complete Course

Beschreibung

A complete first-year textbook that is designed to help learners acquire the language by actively using it in realistic situations. It develops all four skills-listening, speaking, reading, writing-through a range of tasks and activities, including role plays, games, and short conversations.

Autor

Joshua H. Pien is a faculty researcher and Hindi-Urdu language specialist at the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. Previously he was an assistant professor of Hindi at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. He has also taught Hindi at the University of Wisconsin. Fauzia Farooqui teaches Urdu and Hindi at Princeton University. She has also taught Urdu-Hindi at various other institutions, including the University of Virginia, the Defense Language Institute, University of Michigan, and the American Institute of Indian Studies in Lucknow, India. Her other publications include a monograph on the prose poem in Urdu and various original pieces of poetry, short fiction, and literary criticism, which have appeared in leading Urdu literary journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 217mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1716g
• ISBN-13: 9781589017788
• ISBN-10: 1589017781
• Artikelnr.: 33810704