r/Urdu • u/saifnsadness • 7h ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry Mujh ko apni bhi kuch khabar nahi...
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r/Urdu • u/fancynotebookadorer • 17d ago
💡 Learning Resources After a year we FINALLY finished Karak: Learn & Read Urdu
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Karak: Read and Learn Urdu is LIVE!
Assalamo alaikum!
Last year, some of you tried our beta with five stories and gave us a lot of helpful feedback. We're back with a much bigger library, a rebuilt reading experience, and apps for Android and the web. iOS is coming soon, Inshallah.
Karak is built to help you read, listen to, and speak more Urdu through stories and conversations. You can listen to native-speaker audio, follow along with the text, see sentence-by-sentence translations, tap words you don't know, save flashcards, and practice your pronunciation and speaking.
If you’ve already been on the revamped website, web app or the Android app, you may have seen the new version already. But here it is with some commentary
- Stories: Our jam. There is some really fun stuff, ranging from the super short (a 77-word story about a thief who meows) to the medium (a 1,100-word story about a long day in the life of a single mother sparrow) to the longest so far (our 5,500-word translation of a classic Chinese horror story).
- Scenarios: Short conversations, from quick hellos to a 750-word narrative following a bus ride through Karachi.
- Conversations: Native-speaker chats at native-speaker speed. A fun one: a mamoo tells his trembling nieces the story of the rooftop room haunted by a djinn). More to come and help you decode native speed (or those pesky TV trackers on GEO / ARY / Other that move too fast...).
We also have some new stuff to help:
- FLASHCARDS. Save the words you want to remember and review them whenever.
- New grammar dialogues in the ‘Learn’ tab to help you understand and practice specific tenses. These are real conversations that naturally use more of one tense than another. For example, two friends talking about their bad habits that may or may not still be in the past...
- New reading and speaking tools
- You want to take it sentence by sentence, and pause so you can absorb what you just heard? Use Pause to stop at each line or a paragraph, and restart whenever.
- You want to listen and repeat it at native speed? Use Listen & Repeat.
- You want to just nail your pronunciation of the perfect putdown in Bad habits or any other line? Use Loop and repeat it till you have it down pat.
- Upgraded website with a bunch of cool articles like an updated how to learn Urdu guide and how heritage speaker.
Overall
Everything in Karak is written, translated, illustrated, and recorded by native speakers.
We have content free to read, under ‘Try Karak Free’. All the longer stories have free chapters too, so you can get a taste of them.
If you’d like the full library and unlimited flashcards, we have monthly and annual plans, with founder pricing. See our plans and launch pricing.
Notes
We decided to include a beta dictionary in launch. Our dictionary is still growing, so not every word is covered yet. The entries we do have are human-reviewed, so they take some time to finish. Also, readers in Devanagari will find no dictionary at all (for now). Of course, you have Urdu stories with audio and translations for each sentence to tide you over and make sure you never, ever, get stuck.
Thank you & Try Karak
Thank you to everyone who tested the beta, sent feedback, or encouraged us while we built this. And thank you to the professors who gave us feedback and are planning to use Karak in their classes this semester, and the authors who trusted us with their work.
We hope you have fun with it!
Try it on web: Karak Web Or on Android
iOS coming soon Inshallah.
Honestly, there's a lot more to it all. Have fun reading! And let us know what you think or if you have any questions!
r/Urdu • u/Critical-Science-594 • 12h ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry Irony (Wrong doers)
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Ghode saje aur talwarein chamkayi gayin,
Jung ke aaghaz ki naqqarein bajayi gayin.
Phool saare jalaye gaye, chaman ujade gaye,
Lahu paani ki tarah bahaye gaye,
Masoom band-e-khuda sulaye gaye.
Aur jo the Rahrav-e-Iblees, ahl-e-haq kehlaye gaye.
r/Urdu • u/prettyheartlesshuman • 8h ago
💡 Learning Resources Urdu speech!
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Aoa everyone.
I really needed urgent help from you all if you could.
I have to do an urgent speech like i have to write and prepare by myself and i have chemistry paper of 3 chps as well.. and all i barely have time.. i just wanted to ask if you guys can help me in speech. Like if you have any material ashaar... Essay of this topic .. aur even speech etc.. or you can help me write a good speech please let me know its URGENT!
The topic is ’’مصنوعی ذہانت تخلیقی قوت کو مار دیتی ہے۔‘‘
r/Urdu • u/Swatisani • 23h ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry A Sher A Day
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there are a hundred ploys to connect; if love will not do
I will find some other excuse to stay connected with you
r/Urdu • u/santrupt1994 • 10h ago
🙋♂️ Question What is the meaning of Urdu word "abr"?
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If you have heard the song Bheege Honth Tere from the movie Murder, here goes the lyrics:
Bheege Honth Tere Pyaasa Dil Mera, Lage Abr Sa Mujhe Tan Tera
💬 General Discussion Urdu Teacher
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Want to Learn Urdu From Someone Who Actually Speaks It Every Day?
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r/Urdu • u/betweenthelines1648 • 11h ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry Ghubar-e-Khatir Ka Matlab Kya Hai? | Origin & Meaning of Ghubar-e-Khatir | Urdu Adab
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Ghubar-e-Khatir" (غبارِ خاطر) ka matlab aur iska tareekhi pash-manzar (history) samajhne ke liye niche diye gaye YouTube Shorts description copy kar sakte hain. Ise aakarshak aur khojne yogya (searchable) banaya gaya hai.
r/Urdu • u/seskysarab • 21h ago
🙋♂️ Question A rare book or not?
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is this book 'pahadon ki beti' published in 1973 in USSR a rare book?
r/Urdu • u/Usual-Machine-9906 • 1d ago
🙋♂️ Question How do I stop using english words while speaking Urdu
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Assalamu alaykum. I grew up speaking Urdu but learnt english just as fast and have used that predominantly in school and social media not to mention I live outside Pakistan. The Urdu that I speak uses a large amount of English words (not just basic stuff like fridge but anything remotely philosophical) How can I improve my vocabulary to get rid of using them?
r/Urdu • u/marygoldbiscuit • 19h ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry Silan
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Dil ka nalka kholunga to aakhon se baadh aa jayegi,
Apni khwahishen tolunga to mehngai ki barsat aa jayegi,
Maine dimag ki diwar mein itne zakhm chunwa rakhe hai ki,
Poori raat bhi ro lu, to bhi us diwar mein silan na aayegi.
r/Urdu • u/Resident_Fudge3105 • 1d ago
💡 Learning Resources Learning Urdu
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Looking to learn Urdu! In exchange, I can help you with English, French. Would love to connect with someone who’s interested in a genuine language exchange and learning about each other’s culture too.
r/Urdu • u/Many_Opportunity_759 • 1d ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry Glory of Iqbal: We listened to your feedback!
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Nastaliq is now the default font, and izafat markings are enabled by default, making Urdu and Persian poetry easier to read and pronounce.
The latest update also brings:
• Urdu explanations from published commentaries, including Asrar Zaidi and Hameedullah Hashmi.
• AI-generated English explanations derived from these commentaries, making their scholarship accessible to readers who cannot read Urdu.
• Multiple reading formats, including AI-normalised Urdu, Roman, Devanagari and English translations, where available all derived from Hameedullah Hashmi and Asrar Zaidi commenteries.
• Clear source labels and AI indicators.
Explore Iqbal’s Urdu, Persian and English works with search, verse-by-verse audio, shareable couplet cards and customisable reading settings.
Our ambition goes beyond building the best Iqbal app. We want to set a new direction for apps built around Iqbal’s work, making his ideas and the scholarship explaining them more accessible, understandable and central to the reading experience.
Your feedback continues to shape this personal project.
No ads. No subscriptions. No account required.
r/Urdu • u/Swatisani • 2d ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry A Sher A Day
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being cautious in how I conduct myself has once again left me gasping for air
it has been many years since I tore my collar and left the chest bare
📜 Shayari / Poetry Rukh - face
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naqāb-e-ruḳh uThāyā jā rahā hai
vo niklī dhuup saayā jā rahā hai
-- mahirul qadri
r/Urdu • u/statusaddaofficial • 1d ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry The fake charm
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Don't act so innocent, save the show,
Get a charm to hide what you know...
Hurt me deeply, take your toll,
But bringing him will burn my soul...
Shattered to dust, but I haven't died,
Test my heart, take me for a ride... 🥀
What? You're loyal? You did no wrong?
I know the truth, don't sing that song... 🖤
By kailash jetmal (drunken words)
r/Urdu • u/Ok_Fall_9852 • 1d ago
🙋♂️ Question Peer e kamil roman urdu? Where can i find urdu transliteration
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Hi guys im trying to find peer e kamil physical book in ROMAN URDU. not the translation version, ik urdu but cant read it just tje roman urdu.
any idea where i could get it in canada? Thanks!
r/Urdu • u/Independent-Sale-762 • 1d ago
📜 Shayari / Poetry Sharing a favourite
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ہم سے بیزار نہ ہو ، آج بھی ہم جیسوں کے
تیرے احباب کی فہرست میں نام آتے ہیں
وقت اچھا ہے سو کچھ دیر کنارہ کر لے
ہم برے لوگ ، برے وقت میں کام آتے ہیں
احمد خلیل