@rome.... Welcome.... Do you speak Urdu?
quick answer is ....only a few words, like very few BUT .... good news is i do have a lot of acquaintances here who speak punjabi and urdu and sometimes i try to learn by repeating after them and they say that i have a good pronunciation
BIENVENIDA!!
urdu is not something that you learn from the intenet,you have must an interection ,i am based in Pk and find that urdu is difficult for me but hey i might be busy with other stuff to learn more advanced urdu.i can only speak the basics
i have learn english without any interaction with anyone, and this was even before the days of the internet , so the only resource open to me was the bbc radio .... but when i went to live in england, then yes it did go up ever so slightly , but i learned from the bbc and had a perfect or near perfect pronunciation which surprised many people when i went to england .
i can say i have a musical ear and can somehow detect the overtones and undertones in southern indo-eurpean languages ( mainly hindi urdu punjabi, italian, spanish portuguese english ) ...outside that group eg danish norwegian it is tough for me to be able to speak with good accents ....so northern indo-euro and eastern indo euro eg russian, and the slavics , would be v tough or me ......my life ambition is to learn hindi urdu and a few other indic based languages ....also very tough for me like arabic is farsi , that is also a tough language, so i prefer urdu any day
i also listen to geo tv and ari tv to the newscasts and the political debate , not knowing 90% of the words , still i listen to get a feel of than language and to take into my soul, its great beauty ....the lady newscaster are so lovely and their clothes ! ..... also morning with farah when i can spare the time ....listening to urdu somehow has a healing effect , for me it has that effect. ....and i like the qawwalis of nusrat fateh ali khan which were introduced to me by a gujerati friend at univ in england
but i am totally zero when it comes to non southern indo-euro langages eg Arabic , Chinese japanese or perhaps African languages which i know nothing about but have heard them through the immigrants here
zindabad,
R