Gregory Maxwell Bruce

Urdu Vocabulary (eBook, PDF)

A Workbook for Intermediate and Advanced Students

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook will help intermediate students gain advanced levels of proficiency in Urdu. By learning about the mechanics of word-building through contextualising explanations and practical exercises, learners will develop their comprehension skills in reading, writing and speaking. Each module is based on a register from another language and follows the same structure with a self-explanatory introduction illustrated by carefully chosen examples and a range of exercises to improve and test learners' skills. Urdu Vocabulary complements college-level Urdu language and literature courses as well as self-study, making it an ideal resource for students, translators, researchers and scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474467216
• Artikelnr.: 72412543

Autorenporträt

Gregory Maxwell Bruce is a Lecturer in Urdu at the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor and translator of Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue by Shibli Nu'mani (Syracuse UP, 2019) and a regular contributor to Brill's online Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He has previously taught Urdu courses at University of Texas, Austin in 2008 - 2016 and at the South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and How to Use this Book
1. Urdu and English: Shared Histories, Shared Vocabularies
2. The Arabic Element
3. The Hindi Element
4. The Persian Element
5. The Prakrit and Sanskrit Element
Appendix I. Arabic Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix II: Hindi Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix III: Persian Verbal Noun Charts
Appendix IV: Sanskrit Verbal Noun Charts
Index of Topics and Lessons.