I took this class for Urdu last year. BYKI, Mango languages and Diigo were very helpful for learning the language as a beginner. For the purpose of my lessons, which is to further perfect a language that I am already fluent at, those resources don't provide much. The resources in the book shelve aren't ideal for my purposes either. Web-based resources like news articles and academic articles definitely help.
I have begun reading articles from the newspaper to get a better sense of advanced vocabulary. I read an article on Hanjin shipping, one of the largest sea transportation companies in the world. The article said that Hanjin had filed for bankruptcy and is going through changes due to their business not being successful anymore ( gas price going down, less things to transport over sea). This helped me brush up on the language more and I learned a word or two from it.
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