Learning Journal #3

[Aisha Farooq]

This week we worked on the alphabet system in Urdu. Zaka explained how the alphabet system starts on the right instead of the left. He read through the alphabet once with me reading it aloud afterward. We worked on my pronunciation with the alphabets and how some letters make a guttural sound unlike the alphabet in English. I also wrote out all the alphabets in Urdu. We went over the letters that were mixed around and we worked on which letters could be written better. The second day in the week I learned more about the history in the alphabet system in Urdu. Zaka discussed how the alphabet system in Urdu was a mix of Arabic and Persian after political tensions in history. Zaka also recommended a youtube video on the alphabet song which gave examples of various foods with all the letters from Urdu which we saved to Diigo.