How I Learnt Urdu Script in 1 Month (And How You Can Too!)

I learned to read and write Pakistan's National Language, Urdu, in just one month! I'll take you through the entire process from day 1 and show you exactly how I learnt Urdu.
I learned Urdu reading and writing so quickly because I can already read and write in India's most spoken language, Hindi. Both languages are extremely similar, with the biggest difference being the script they're written in. Hindi is written in Devanagari (देवनागरी), and Urdu is written in Nastaliq (نستعلیق unfortunately here it's showing up in Naskh script due to KZbin). Otherwise, they share most of the same vocabulary, and Indians and Pakistans can understand each other just fine.
For more details on how to learn Urdu (and Hindi), see my blog blog.karlrock.com/how-i-learn....
If you're interested in learning Urdu or Hindi with Dr Todd Nachowitz, check out his non-profit Earth Diverse earthdiverse.org.nz/. They run in-person and online classes. This is not sponsored, and I paid for all my classes.
The restaurant I ate at (5 times now actually) is Dhaba On Highway Hamilton, goo.gl/maps/iJcqSyYZ7LBBsrTJ9. They serve the most authentic Dhaba food I've found in New Zealand. Try the Paratha Thali.
00:00 Why I'm learning Urdu
01:21 Main differences between Hindi & Urdu
04:40 How I found an Urdu teacher
06:42 Class 1: Who is my Urdu teacher?
07:40 Tip: The most authentic Indian food in New Zealand
08:50 The basics of Urdu
10:55 What learning a language looks like... Hard work
12:58 Why Urdu is harder to learn than Hindi
14:10 What I learnt about Urdu after 1-week
17:37 My study setup for learning Urdu
20:51 To learn a language, you have to be committed
25:20 How I learnt Urdu vowels
29:03 What I learnt after 4 Urdu lectures
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[@KarlRock]

Namaste Dosto. Hit "🔔 Set reminder" and I'll be here in the chat before the premiere! "Upcoming Premiere: Watch and chat live with other viewers as this upload is shown for the very first time." For more details on how to learn Urdu (and Hindi) see my blog blog.karlrock.com/how-i-learnt-urdu-and-how-you-can-too/

[@ericcartman6697]

Sanskrit next?? She's the mother of all these languages so 🤷🤷🤷

[@KarlRock]

@@ericcartman6697 No plans for Sanskrit because there's no practical use in it for me (unless I become religious one day, then it would be of use). Manisha studied Sanskrit at school, so she translates words for me from time to time. Next, for reading, I'll probably learn Gujarati or Gurmukhi. Language wise, I have to learn more Haryanvi because I spend so much time there and my family speak in it at home sometimes.

[@armpitbhaigod]

You must learn Bengali to go around in Bangladesh xD

[@ericcartman6697]

@@KarlRock fair enough mate.. If you find an easier version of sanskrit for others to learn, please don't forget to post it on your website. Best wishes from Australia

[@DaysVlogchallangeMviewsdaysago]

Yes boss

[@americanjatt7859]

When you learn urdu you basically learning three languages to read. You can easily read arabic and Persian if you know to read urdu.

[@iRamboxC4x]

That's true, I speak Arabic and Persian and Urdu is basically the mixture of them :D

[@salmamalik7158]

Urdu have lot of Turkey word too.

[@siddharthmehta6220]

Just being able to read the script does no good. Everyone who can read english should be able to read German, French, Spanish, for the most part. All Hindi readers can read Marathi & even Gujarati to a good extent. But what good is all of that. The grammar is totally different between Urdu & Persian/Arabic. Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language. Urdu's grammar is exactly the same as Hindi (technically, they're the same language, Hindustani, just written in different scripts & separated because of Subcontinental politics). Even the basic vocab (80% ish) is the same between the two, and totally different from Arabic & Persian. It's so frustrating, so many people don't seem to understand the difference between script, and the actual language (grammar, vocab, semantics). You can literally write Hindi/Urdu in Roman script (latin alphabets, aka, what we write english in), as most internet users of Subcontinent do, would it suddenly start making sense to a European because they can mumble the words now? Thoda toh dimaag laga liya karo yaar.

[@Suresh_Kamath]

Do not they use the same script for Punjabi in Pakistan.

[@Suresh_Kamath]

@एक लड़का Thanks.

[@SunnyVisions]

I picked up the Urdu script fairly quickly. I learned it because there are some Sikh scriptures in Farsi and some beautiful Sufi poetry in Urdu, Farsi and Shahmukhi Punjabi. I'm a Canadian born punjabi Sikh, so I also had to teach myself the Gurmukhi Punjabi script. Next is Devanagari! سلام علیکم پاکستان کے دوستو

[@abdulmoiz6292]

وعلیکم السلام! آپ کا اردو رسم الخط سیکھنے کا تجربہ پڑھ کر اچھا لگا

[@peterflashman8100]

بہت خوب ! مجھے پنجابی نہیں جانتا لیکں مجھے دونوں ہیندے اور اردو اتے ہیں ۔ ایک دیں میں گورموخی، پنجابی زابان سیکھوئنگا

[@SunnyVisions]

@@abdulmoiz6292 شکریہ عبدل بھائی. اللہ رحمت فرمائے

[@SunnyVisions]

@@peterflashman8100 واہ ثیٹر جی، آپ کا چینل بہت اچھا ہے

[@peterflashman8100]

@@SunnyVisions شکریہ جی۔ مجھے امید ہے کہ اس سال ہندی اور اردو دونوں زبانوں میں مزید ویڈیوز بنائینگا

[@asmaaezzat7829]

As an Arabic native speaker I learned Urdu script in about 10 minutes 😂😂🤝 I love this ❤

[@atifnasirsheikh]

hey could you please help me with any way to learn understanding arabic language? i wanna understand the arabic scholars better and also learn The Holy Quran in its true essence. i am struggling with the language cause i am a revert. could you please help me with the arabic language? (i know how to read its just it makes no sense to me what those words mean).

[@geocritic3577]

as a person who learnt the Arabic script since young I can read Urdu easily as well 😂

[@Ne0n425]

As an urdu native speaker I didn't need to learn arabic 😂(how to read or write it) . But alhamdulillah now I learn its meaning and balaghah To understand quran properly

[@maryamfatima3216]

Because basically urdu is a mixture of arabic, Persian,turkish and Sanskrit

[@zuninona]

lmaooo i’m muslim pakistani and could read arabic since a young age and it took like a week to memorize the alphabet and write/pronounce it too

[@intersanctum]

Sending some love from Croatia to India, Pakistan, and New Zealand.

[@ankushrana3256]

Lot of love from India ✌

[@KarlRock]

♥

[@intersanctum]

@@ankushrana3256 ❤️

[@intersanctum]

@@KarlRock ❤️

[@intersanctum]

@Mohamed Syed Ahmar AbdAllaah ❤️

[@faheemtareen6938]

When he said "wow" many times, I thought he has seen something incredible and expressing his excitement but then I realized he is practicing Urdu alphabet "و" 😂

[@KarlRock]

Hahahaha

[@shahzadmughal7666]

Hahaha 😁😁

[@fahadtahir8468]

Wow

[@arth_chart5280]

Same 🤣

[@xylonbanda]

Wow

[@ramshafaisal4474]

I lovee how hard you're working to learn urdu and keeping up with Hindi at the same time🥺 Love from Pakistan 💚

[@siddharthmehta6220]

I mean it's basically learning a different script. 90% of the spoken language is the same. Not sure how learning same words in Perso-Arabic script can make someone forget the same language in another script.

[@nathformath496]

@@siddharthmehta6220 I agree, Urdu and Hindi are essentially the spoekn same, but they were promoted as different for "political" reasons. Urdu is basically Hindi spoken mostly by Muslims. But they, at one point, were almost interchangeable.

[@azmatsiddique7321]

@@nathformath496 it was hindi created for political gains urdu was sole language urdu is complex hindi is a created language not urdu

[@nathformath496]

@@azmatsiddique7321 Yes, both are relatively "modern" languages and I think both have unique characteristics and ejoyable to learn!

[@siddharthmehta6220]

@@azmatsiddique7321 you are kinda right. Back then, the language was more commonly referred to as Hindustani (not Urdu), or more commonly by its local name like Khari Boli depending on the region. The Nastaliq (Perso-Arabic) script was also more commonly used than Devanagri, even by Hindus. The Brits came along & used it for their strategy of divide & rule to bring back use of Devanagari & call it Hindi amongst the Hindus, and promote Urdu in Nastaliq script as the "Muslim language." Yes, Devanagari is older than Arabic alphabet, but it was pretty much dead because of centuries of Islamic rule.

[@PixelRuzt]

I'm from India and I too started learning Urdu last year. Have made good progress in reading but not that much in writing.

[@sultanashiq]

I did the same with hindi

[@alvenawasim3572]

@Waqas Khon I'll say the opposite, My hand writing still looks like a toddler's

[@MoveandExplore2023]

If you need any help I'm always there :)

[@saleh-dt3qj]

It's pretty easy keep at it if you learn to read and write urdu you can read arabic and Persian as well

[@junaidahmad2805]

I am starting learning Hindi alphabets. How many are there ?

[@LabzPro]

Karl is a fast learner, that’s so amazing!

[@LabzPro]

@@starcraftplayer7084 yeah, I can speak Urdu.

[@Flashbackpika]

Karl bro Love and respect from Pakistan ❤️

[@hariskhan6494]

🇵🇰🇵🇰❤️❤️

[@vishantbhardwaj4430]

Disclaimer: His videos are addictive!

[@ScoutTF2]

i know right, once you watch karl rock, you cant stop!

[@MuhammadAli-jd2ut]

Too late. Already addicted 😜.

[@sponyz]

THE GOOD THING IS ONCE YOU LEARN URDU ALPHABET, THAT WOULD OPEN THE DOORS TO LEARNING PERSIAN AND ARABIC, AS 90% OF THE FONTS ARE THE SAME!

[@o_0264]

And old turkish script too

[@ozahmed4523]

Capital letters means you are yelling.

[@TheYamatai]

What if one learns Arabic?

[@Abdullah-uv9nk]

If your selling point of Urdu is you can learn Arabic and Persian then you're doing a bad job of selling Urdu

[@anshulguptain]

Well, Urdu was made by the converts who wanted to become a a part of their desert cult by copying their culture in our motherland.

[@mzaidshaikh]

You are an inspiration Karl Sir, one of the most intellectual people I've ever seen. I am a pure-hindi and pure-urdu speaker, even the best of linguistics scholars fail to mention the basic point of Hindustani language. The knowledge you have attained in such less time astonishes me. Trust me, most of us Indians don't even know what Hindustani language means, despite being native speakers. Hats off sir, you are a legend. I can probably never thank you enough for what you have done for us Muslims (Indian and outsiders), because of your efforts, everyday lesser and lesser people will be judge for their identity. Jai Hind.

[@KarlRock]

🙏

[@mzaidshaikh]

Thank you so much Karl! ❤️

[@vimalkumar3815]

Mixture of more bhasha makes urdu sweetest language of India🇮🇳😍.

[@mzaidshaikh]

@@vimalkumar3815 Indeed

[@aman_insaan]

@Sohrab The Socialist true dear. Languages and cultures exists in relation to each other. They are for the subjects who speak them And therefore not of a single kind and therefore not monolithic. Nothing exists in compartmentalised form from other things, at least in real world. Don't know of idealists. Btw, I am also a socialist, Communist kind of. What is your flavour of socialism..?

[@gradientO]

"if you can't spead Hindi in India, you'll always be on the outside" South Indians: 😶

[@Haris-gh1kn]

But it's true

[@user-pz4et9pl7p]

I apologize on behalf of people who speak Hindi. I know these people have some kind of superiority complex.

[@ujwalmokashi6702]

South India is real India.

[@lusimyer]

Lol

[@krishivkaran5337]

@@ujwalmokashi6702 All of India is real India. A Northerner is as Indian as a Southerner.

[@prawnk1ng]

A grown man with a wall chart is so cute. 😊

[@justamanofculture12]

😂 😂 😂

[@jannat4585]

Karl you explained how indian people don't speak pure hindi so well, thankyou!! As a native urdu speaker pure hindi is almost unintelligible to me for instance when i listen to a hindi news channel and they're speaking pure hindi i dont understand 😅😅 and everytime i tried to point out how different hindi and urdu are people are so ready to jump at me. I genuinely don't understand when yall speak pure hindi cz it's very very different. But i can understand hindustani just fine ☺️

[@tahaarshadshaheen]

To be honest pure Urdu it's also somewhat difficult for me an Urdu speaker. I learned it in school but never use it.

[@o_0264]

@@tahaarshadshaheen we should use pure Urdu

[@o_0264]

@@bellabell2330 same goes for me but when I read Iqbal's poetry I don't even understand that cause it's pure Urdu and we nowadays mostly use Fkin English words.. I am working on my Urdu.

[@tahaarshadshaheen]

@@o_0264 Language changes as time passes. It is how language evolves. This is natural. No language is the same as what it was a hundred years ago. For example, Japanese is very different from old Japanese. Most Japanese people don't understand their own national anthem because it was written so long ago. We can't use pure Urdu unless we're in an academic environment. It feels forced and unnatural in normal conversation.

[@jazzbollywood]

Excellent point my views exactly. Even in hindi films what you mostly hear is urdu. Hindi is Indian news channels and what Mr. Bachchan speaks!

[@adiddevil]

Urdu is such a beautiful language... Glad ur learning it

[@crentfz]

Yeah ✨

[@royalloyalty8248]

Agree. He should learn Gurmukhi next. Its easy

[@royalloyalty8248]

@एक लड़का Punjabi is easiest to learn. Sikh Punjabi. Not urdu/Persian script Punjabi (this is wayy Harder)

[@royalloyalty8248]

@@ArthoGamer yes. Its easier than Shahmukhi

[@mishaalchaudhry7085]

@एक लड़का Or sunaye apka kya haal hy Khush Raha kren :p lol

[@azharlaher]

Looking forward to this, all the way from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@anatomyformedicalstudentsh7454]

I am Pakistani but I learned how to read and write Hindi, and I found it very easy to learn and I learned it in a week. Now I can read basic Hindi.

[@Vivek_Mandvi96]

तो फिर बता यह पूरा सेंटेंस क्या लिखा है।

[@msr7373]

@@Vivek_Mandvi96 tau phir bata yeh sentence poora kya likha hai?

[@YTMRCODER]

I know Hindi but I wanna learn Urdu since it’s easy,if you know Hindi,then you can learn Urdu just by learning their alphabets! Same for an Urdu speaker

[@purvaaryan6442]

​@@msr7373 No, you're wrong

[@amusliminusa]

me too

[@krishivkaran5337]

Funnily enough I opened KZbin to learn the Nastaliq script, and this video popped up on my recs. Thanks for the help, by the way. Your video was really helpful for me ;-)

[@KarlRock]

Perfect :) KZbin is doing it's job

[@Krish90551]

@@KarlRock pls learn 🙏 south indian language Malayalam 🙏 gods own country kerala...

[@gaipa2006]

I speak Urdu 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰 from Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦. I am a dark skin black man that speaks Urdu 🇵🇰🇵🇰 from Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦.

[@luckystar1408]

o Great...❤️

[@bislergaming5519]

🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@gaipa2006]

@@luckystar1408 I have a video about me speaking Urdu.

[@luckystar1408]

@@gaipa2006 on youtube?

[@gaipa2006]

@@luckystar1408 yes, but it is from a different channel.

[@dickriggles942]

This man defines "going native. "

[@aravul]

😃 nope!! Going native is learning Sanskrit or Tamiz!! Not the language that was invented to convert ppl!!!

[@kaluhellen3696]

@@aravul bro languages aren’t ‘invented’ and definitely not to convert people 😐 . The Norman French didn’t ‘invent’ modern English by adding loads of French words to the English vocabulary to ‘convert’ people or anything like that. All that happened is words from languages spoken by the ruling class (Turkish and Persian words) seeped into the Hindustani vocabulary. The splitting of Hindi and Urdu was propagated for nationalist reasons yes, but at the end of the day they are languages which can be used and enjoyed by anyone and they are both definitely beautiful languages of India (Urdu is a Sanskrit language to the core ??). All of my grandparents learnt Urdu all their lives, some studied it at university and even taught it abroad to foreign governments and they were Hindu Punjabis so please don’t say silly things like Urdu language was made to ‘convert’ people just because it has more foreign influence. All languages are beautiful and it’s a shame you don’t see that beauty in Urdu language. Thanks for your time.

[@j.kgamer6611]

@@aravul lol what 🙄🙄

[@typicalusername659]

@@aravul it is a language derived from persian i think then how tf can it be invented to convert people

[@numairx6034]

@@aravul lol , dude , grow up with your lame shit. Bhakt.

[@aliraza07]

Urdu is mixer of languages... Urdu language can absorb many words of other languages.... Respect all languages. 💚🇵🇰❤️🇹🇷

[@romanali8362]

The dedication in this video 👏 Greetings from Pakistan 🇵🇰

[@336muslim]

Learning a new language, especially with a different alphabet and script from latin, takes a lot of discipline! Much respect!

[@furqanahmad8791]

Karl u can now read Arabic, Amazigh, Persian, Sindhi, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Pashto and Balochi too!

[@powerhousebikki]

But can he understand all of it though? That's the question, learning a script is way easier compared to the language itself.

[@furqanahmad8791]

@@powerhousebikki I said 'u can read' not ' u can understand'

[@powerhousebikki]

@@furqanahmad8791 I never said that you said it.

[@royalloyalty8248]

Yes. That's what I'm saying

[@siddharthmehta6220]

And what good is it if you can't understand it. By that logic he can also ready Marathi, Gujarat (almost Devanagari), German, Spanish, French, samajh ghanta aani. Also, he can only read Punjabi in Pakistan (shahmukhi), Punjabi in India is in Gurmukhi.

[@royalloyalty8248]

Start trying to read urdu newspapers. Once you start reading it, you'll learn it quicker (pronunciation, etc)

[@user-rk3hb4fh3z]

I m feeling Ashamed of myself Urdu is my Language and I can't even read it properly but this a An English guy literally reads better Urdu than me :(

[@hassanshahid2279]

Don't worry! Keep trying and you'll definitely get there!

[@mishaalchaudhry7085]

you should be😭

[@Moon1tt]

ڈوب کے مرجاؤ

[@user-rk3hb4fh3z]

@@hassanshahid2279 thanks for Motivation bro I will try my best

[@nomanmalya]

Tum karachi ajao me sikha dunga

[@Shaxnn___]

Karl fan from india 🇮🇳

[@archismaanrudra876]

@एक लड़काIndia mein bhi Bengali Hain .

[@subhajitbiswas5769]

@एक लड़का keno ki hoilo toke?

[@swagotbharadwaz1645]

@एक लड़का kyu gandu bolta hai sala ..bodjyat I can too understand It .being a assamese

[@rubywaqas3797]

I'm married to a Pakistani. I badly want to learn the language and this videi is a great motivation.

[@Vivek_Mandvi96]

Are you from India? I can't believe you married a paxtani if you r from India.

[@Vivek_Mandvi96]

@Bhadwa Modi fuck off pax I know even after partition millions have relatives both sides. Hating and terrorism is copyrighted by paxtan.

[@Vivek_Mandvi96]

@Bhadwa Modi Nani ottoda

[@user-zv7oq5mq9m]

@ꫝarry K 93000 Pathan transgender surrender in DHAKA and Born bangladesh And your Allah is Gay

[@lionsofafrica3786]

@@user-zv7oq5mq9m imagine being a loser that you will bring up a 1970s war? Btw your cow is gay

[@fairysrreal180]

Karl thank you for an insight of the differences between Hindi and Urdu, BIG RESPECT.

[@aazam]

Dear Karl, I think my comment on your videos (esp. related to Pakistan and India) is overdue. I would like to greatly appreciate how you are promoting the positivity of different cultures. Your videos are so genuine and worth watching because I've seen that you not only point out the negative things in a country (or more so in the case of India and Pakistan), but in a constructive way, and you also highlight the positive things. And that too in a genuine way (without overdoing anything). I also liked that part in your earlier video(s) in which you experimented with saying Namaste in Pakistan. And now encouraging people of Pakistan and India to learn each other's language scripts. That's why your work stands out. Positivity, a showcase of culture and people, negativity in a constructive way, and promoting harmony and peace. That's a true all-in-one package in a travel vlog. Thumbs up. Keep up the great work, Karl. THANK YOU.

[@nooriscool]

KARL I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! KEEP UPLOADING THIS GREAT CONTENT :)

[@williamtompson9470]

So good to see someone like me that’s so passionate about South Asian language and culture . I have also learnt Hindi/Urdu and it’s such an enriching experience, especially, as you said, when you apply in real life situations. I’ve also started to teach myself Farsi and having knowledge of Urdu script and vocabulary is definitely an advantage. Keep it up!

[@itsourlife]

Hey Karl. I think I'll need to discover myself back as an Hindustani (subcontinent) now. This is insane the things that we take for granted get another meaning when you speak about them.

[@agnivamaiti1202]

This is quite an informed explaination of the difference between Urdu and Hindi. Lotta people don't understand that they're basically the same language but merely different forms or registers of it. Thanks for explaining Karl

[@keeloraz9452]

Karl is probably one of the coolest guys I have seen on youtube.

[@afshanashraf8690]

It feels great to see you do so much hard work to learn our language. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 💚

[@Cece_Si]

Thank you so much Karl ! your such a huge motivation…. keep it upppp ❤️

[@johgwynn17]

Namaste Karl! Looking forward to your new video.

[@uttamsampath1214]

Karl Fan from INDIA🇮🇳❤️

[@TheAryanKnight]

@Mohamed Syed Ahmar AbdAllaah bhai bas kar. Rulayega kya

[@zaidrasheed2790]

@Aditya Sahoo the king of kashmir was a non-muslim and all of his riaya was muslim just to take revenge on the muslim he decided their fates into the hands of your cruel leaders and army man and now they are being slayed,raped and what you see is that kashmir is beautiful shame on you guys

[@prabudhprajapati7658]

@@zaidrasheed2790 same ur country doing bro , and which you are saying is our past and we ashamed but present is totally different from our past and now we are developing and also spreading love and happiness

[@prabudhprajapati7658]

@@zaidrasheed2790 but your past and present never changed but getten worst day by day

[@kon.kartik]

@Mohamed Syed Ahmar AbdAllaah wtf🤣 🤣

[@erenyeager5003]

After learning Urdu the vast ocean of sufi literature will be opened for you. It's the most beautiful language in the world. Though i am Bangladeshi but recently i started to learn Urdu, after being encouraged by the Shayari of Mirza Ghalib.

[@sauveerdixit7145]

@@aminaakhlaq5352 Why for ladies only?

[@maryamfatima3216]

Read poetry of Allama Iqbal too brother you will be amazed

[@nadeemafzal4698]

Simply Amazing... Hats off to Karl for showing such enthusiasm for learning Urdu and Hindi. And Btw I think he became addicted to chaye (tea) while living in India/ Pakistan

[@mehmoodulhassan918]

So much love ❤️ to you karl from Pakisan 🇵🇰 and to all Indian brother and sisters ❤️

[@kewalpatil]

Urdu is a very nice language for calligraphy if you're interested in that. Maybe you could learn that too if you want!! 👍👍

[@leokuoershmidt3487]

Hey ! Hey ! I love the way you teach us more of un common but interesting language to learn !! Best of the best Karl!!!

[@gradientO]

Good journey man, I'm learning Arabic now

[@Zain-ul-Abdin_Rajput]

You are such a sincere and hardworking person. Always a pleasure these video. God bless you man!

[@anuskabanerjee6231]

I am also learning اردو script. It's fun

[@strategygames4056]

Good luck sister

[@sadiasuleman1102]

And I’m reading Dewane Ghalib

[@naumanvirk5449]

Your surname looks like bengali

[@anuskabanerjee6231]

@@naumanvirk5449 Yes sir am Bengali

[@anuskabanerjee6231]

@Ottoman empire, I Y I ☪️☪️☪️ In Urdu I am facing same kind of problems. I can read hindi well.

[@ayeshaali2094]

Huge respect!! Inspiring and motivating in fact I am also motivated to learn new language :) TY

[@YashodhanBhale]

I find you very inspiring.. thanks for making awesome videos! It's great to see someone this genuine on KZbin.

[@maryamsukaynah559]

Your description of the two languages is apt, wonderful!

[@ilmkakarwaan]

Wonderful effort! We really proud of you for learning URDU 🇵🇰👍❤️

[@thisischetan]

Happy to see you learning new languages. I'm too learning hangul and hiragana from last 2 months. Urdu is now on my list.

[@achaudhary]

You are doing really well man. Keep it up. Love from the UK.

[@robinridinghood835]

Great to see you in our Hindi class a couple of weeks ago. I was the sick one zooming in! Come again.

[@guriyakyvlog4567]

Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰❤️💜

[@SakeofAllah698]

i know both hindi and urdu but i think urdu is the sweetest language . 99% indian bollywood and all songs are in urdu not hindi

[@ujwalmokashi6702]

Yeah..its urdu film industry not hindi. It should change for sure from now on.

[@swagotbharadwaz1645]

@@ujwalmokashi6702 true

[@swagotbharadwaz1645]

@@ujwalmokashi6702 urduwood

[@emanashraf4551]

That's ture

[@sushantkumar6176]

Syed Ahmed Dehlavi, a 19th-century lexicographer who compiled the Farhang-e-Asifiya Urdu dictionary, estimated that 75% of Urdu words have their etymological roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit, and approximately 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit.🙂

[@durain54]

Quite impressed with your explanation. Keep it up and highlight all positive aspects of both the culture.

[@gawdfather007]

Now this is quality vlog content. Loved it.

[@farhancpa]

Karl, STOP making Pakistanis fall in love with you! You are making an effort to learn another language, it speaks volumes in terms of how ambitious you are. Watch your Pakistani subscribers grow.

[@mutiasariperboelana8059]

The difficult lesson of speaking&writing learning are how to pronouce it and if Urdu or Hindi have tenses: past, present, future, continuous🤔. People who understanding Arabic usually faster study Urdu coz the alphabet almost same. Of course the most easy learning is learning by doing. Practice makes perfect 😁. Nice sharing moment !

[@Defender_928]

❤💚💙

[@lucifergaming4187]

Your cute

[@mutiasariperboelana8059]

@@lucifergaming4187 thank you

[@aminaakhlaq5352]

I'm an urdu language online tutor, translator I have done bachelor's in urdu Language and education If you want to learn urdu don't worry I'm here to teach you For Ladies only....

[@SalmanQureshi13]

A fast learner. Great work. Keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻

[@ammarmalik7775]

Thank you very much for the video - I'm just about to start learning Urdu in London and this has very much inspired me to push ahead (as well as giving me a craving for some aloo paratha too - looks delicious!)

[@santoshi1259]

You are a great inspiration my friend. Luv from Leicester in UK

[@gangstersmma.9661]

I can listen to him all day He has an amazing accent and an angel's voice

[@arpy1734]

Amazing video Karl.. I am an indian kiwi in Auckland recently started reading Ghalib.. was looking for learning urdu videos and found your video.. you inspired me a lot.

[@yuhikali7547]

Karl you‘re sooo informative !

[@mrityunjaysahariahmik6545]

You really described Hindi and Urdu and their differences nicely

[@savneetpaul]

I love your enthusiasm @Karl Rock and love towards other languages. You are an inspiration for Many especially for me. Keep rising and shining. I want one day I want you can read with me Gurmukhi as well so that I can show more cool places of my city back in punjab !!!

[@harshadanafde6986]

Karl this was truly one of the best video ever created by u. i really appreciate your eagerness to learn about different cultures just so that you gel in whichever place u visit and also learn more each passing day. The fact that "Indians and Pakistanis share more similarities than differences was awesome." Very few realise it.👍👍 Eagerly waiting for the video on your experiences of understanding Bhagvad Gita.

[@whiterose4803]

What an amazing video karl... love your dedication ⚘🍃⚘🍃⚘🍃⚘🍃⚘

[@gowthampr5081]

Wah, you are a genius bro. Love from India 🇮🇳

[@proudpanther701]

Many sounds are made in Urdu with zair, zabar and paish. As most people reading Urdu know the word so don't need to write them. Also by learning Urdu you will be able to read Farsi, Pashto, Arabic as they all have mostly same alphabets

[@rafiyashaikh2368]

Love ur dedication, im struggling with chinese and this was inspiring 🥺💕

[@tlgphotographymakeup4736]

Great to see your journey. Great job of taking such beautiful initiatives.

[@909shayan]

Learning a new language gives you a new soul. Love and support from Pakistan 🇵🇰❤️

[@waqasanjum6565]

I grew up speaking, reading and writing urdu but never noticed we leave some of the vowels out, So I guess today I learned something that always knew but didn't know at the same time, Cheers for that Karl.

[@ahsanashfaq4430]

yeah seriously, aur yeh konsi teen sortun ki baat kar raha tha???

[@UmberA]

Love seeing how motivated you are to learn Urdu script! I am hoping to learn the Urdu script soon too so will definitely refer back to this video :))

[@madari2]

very well explained, never watched any one understaning things at that core level

[@obieobrien5883]

I agree with continued practice. I spent 5-years in Germany. Although not very fluent, I have forgotten a lot.

[@googleemployeesarecucks1917]

Karl Appreciate the work u do showing us there are more similarities than differences Keep up the videos 👍

[@aravul]

Similarities? We have more similarities with Nepal than Pakisthan!! Pakisthan has more similarities with their Arab masters!!

[@cibo4569]

@@aravul what on earth? Pakistan is similar to India and vice versa.

[@typicalusername659]

@@aravul lol u talk about how ur different but there are similar people like u in india and pakistan who just abuse each other and spread hate

[@msruag]

@@aravul yall want to distance yourself so bad from us 💀we're literally the same exact people

[@sardarikram8975]

Thank you for putting your effort and time to learn our beautiful language Urdu....Respect❤

[@amitjain8044]

Hi Karl KZbin recommended me a video of yours almost a month ago and since then I just got addicted to your videos.

[@mrbrian826]

That is so funny because i recently started learning urdu to talk to my coworkers and i came across some of your comments on a few videos. My understanding of urdu is that it is spoken the same as hindi but written differently.

[@samadpathiyil3493]

They say the only people who could understand 'pure' Hindi in the initial years were the news readers at All India Radio 😄

[@razahusaini3075]

Lovely video Karl, being a Delhiite and my younger brother being in AKL, we have some commonality. Don't miss any of videos, very informative. Have fun.

[@learnurduwithsara1068]

What a beautiful video. Many of my American/European students don't learn Urdu script which is fine as the script is completely foreign, but learning the script is certainly helpful.

[@texan4548]

Actually Karl the forms of the letters are not so complicated, they're just ligatures that join the letters. It's very natural. Once you learn it, it will be so easy and natural, and you'll be able to write so much more quickly than Hindi, as it's basically writing a 'river' word. It's also much faster than writing in the Latin alphabet, as Urdu (Arabic script) are horizontal letters, while English letters are vertical.

[@strazer5728]

I was told that historically Urdu was created by the Mughal rulers as a common language to communicate with the citizens of greater India at the time. “Urdu” was an actual camp or place where the rulers were based for a period of time and the language came to be called Urdu. They systematically developed Urdu as a mixture of Hindi and Farsi (Persian). All languages evolve over time so Urdu/Hindustani probably merged into one…

[@Abdullah-uv9nk]

Except that "Hindi" being referred to was a mixture of many languages and dialects in North India at that time and NOT the Modern Standard Hindi being spoken today. Urdu descends from Khari Boli which would've been classed as a "Hindi" dialect at that time. There were many others and still are, too.

[@ArshadHussain-cp4vc]

You are wrong, read late professor Shamsur Rehman Faruqi, he is authority on urdu and persian, and history of urdu.

[@accountforcommenting]

@@Abdullah-uv9nk modern hindi also comes from khari boli right

[@aminaakhlaq5352]

I'm an urdu language online tutor, translator I have done bachelor's in urdu Language and education If you want to learn urdu don't worry I'm here to teach you For Ladies only....

[@unknwnfriend4686]

It's funny that all these people are debating about Urdu Persian Hindi etc but still speaking English 😂😂

[@desitravellover2376]

Awesome karl bhai... Lots of love❤

[@shikharpandey2379]

This is so wholesome, I am from India and in my quest to learn Urdu this was my first stop.

[@sushantkumar6176]

Syed Ahmed Dehlavi, a 19th-century lexicographer who compiled the Farhang-e-Asifiya Urdu dictionary, estimated that 75% of Urdu words have their etymological roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit, and approximately 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit.🙂

[@samiaarif3008]

@Fact NaziI think you need to stop acting like a child. He's correct. Most of Urdu words have their etymologies from Sanskrit and for that you really need to understand what etemology is. Urdu is the language which was created to lessen the distance between two nations by Sufis to whom people used to visit from all over India. Please try to object with the strong facts rather than abuses. And I'm Pakistani and an Urdu writer.

[@globalcomparisons1973]

@Gymtim Tim no it is actually mostly sanskrit. and the common man won’t even use the small amounts of persian and arabic roots, It’s just the dialect that is different

[@globalcomparisons1973]

You are totally Right. Urdu is basically hindi and is mostly sanskrit. The common man doesn’t even speak the few persian and arabic roots in urdu. it’s just the dialect that is different

[@globalcomparisons1973]

@Gymtim Tim are you actually from the region? Or have you just read books. The common mans Hindi and the common mans Urdu are exactly the same as neither Pakistanis or Indians speak pure Urdu or pure hindi. Even with efforts to de Sanskritize Urdu. It is still more sanskrit then Persian. I know this first hand. Since I can perfectly understand all parts of Hindi. However I don’t know a word of Persian and can’t understand it

[@globalcomparisons1973]

@Gymtim Tim well i am Punjabi. And i don’t understand a word. Of persian, turkic, pashto, sindhi, balochi or arabic. Whereas i understand hindi speech

[@royalloyalty8248]

Its probably so cool when Indian people can see you can communicate with them in your language

[@khadijamahjabeen5234]

I really like your vlogs. Lots of love from a Pakistani admirer. Stay blessed

[@mohammadhamid9586]

your tea looks soo good i want to try it and by your vid it seems you want to learn urdu badly good job man

[@ahsnsb]

I learned reading Hindi just by watching Doordarshan we used to watch in my childhood

[@namelessmonster8139]

Really ?

[@ahsnsb]

@@namelessmonster8139 yup. We lived near border area so we used to receive doordarshan on antenna

[@namelessmonster8139]

@@ahsnsb waah 😲

[@ballerjames6414]

There’s also 70 million native urdu speakers in India as well. Such a beautiful language. Official language in Many states in india.

[@sumitbhatt3469]

Because it’s India not fraud pakistan.

[@FaridUlIslam-co2ys]

Not 70 but definitely 200 millions in India are native Urdu speakings 70 million are alone in UP only!

[@rohan34]

Very proper analysis of the language... That's good!!

[@chriswilson728]

I love these videos when you have them speeded up plus the music , I just like the whole video in general 😂👍✌