Lecturer in Urdu with 20+ years' experience: conversational Urdu, script and poetry online
From 68 C$ /h
Assalam-o-alaikum! I'm Asghar, an Urdu teacher from Pakistan with more than 20 years of classroom experience. I am a Lecturer in Urdu at a government postgraduate college in Punjab. I hold an MA and an MPhil in Urdu, and I'm a PhD candidate in Urdu. I also founded Urdu in Translation, an online library of Urdu classics with Roman Urdu and English side by side, and I have translated three books of literary theory into Urdu.
Beginners and intermediate learners: structure first, then use. Each lesson gives you one sentence pattern, the words you need for it, and lots of speaking practice. You speak from lesson one. If you want to read too, an eight-lesson script course takes you through the Urdu letters step by step.
Advanced learners: we read a ghazal, a story or a letter together. First the form, then the meaning, tone and culture behind it. You leave each lesson able to explain a couplet of Ghalib, Iqbal or Faiz in your own words.
Heritage learners who understand some Urdu but want to speak and read with confidence are very welcome. Every lesson ends with short homework and audio you can replay. In your first lesson we find your level, talk about your goal (family, travel, exams, poetry), and I give you a plan for your first month.
Beginners and intermediate learners: structure first, then use. Each lesson gives you one sentence pattern, the words you need for it, and lots of speaking practice. You speak from lesson one. If you want to read too, an eight-lesson script course takes you through the Urdu letters step by step.
Advanced learners: we read a ghazal, a story or a letter together. First the form, then the meaning, tone and culture behind it. You leave each lesson able to explain a couplet of Ghalib, Iqbal or Faiz in your own words.
Heritage learners who understand some Urdu but want to speak and read with confidence are very welcome. Every lesson ends with short homework and audio you can replay. In your first lesson we find your level, talk about your goal (family, travel, exams, poetry), and I give you a plan for your first month.
Location
Online from Pakistan
About Me
Assalam-o-alaikum! I'm Asghar, an Urdu teacher from Pakistan with more than 20 years of classroom experience. I am a Lecturer in Urdu at a government postgraduate college in Punjab. I hold an MPhil in Urdu and I'm a PhD candidate in Urdu.
I help heritage learners who understand some Urdu but want to speak and read with confidence, complete beginners, and advanced students who want to enjoy Ghalib, Iqbal and Faiz in the original.
I also translate. I have translated three books of literary theory from English into Urdu, and I founded Urdu in Translation, an online library of Urdu classics with Roman Urdu and English side by side.
I help heritage learners who understand some Urdu but want to speak and read with confidence, complete beginners, and advanced students who want to enjoy Ghalib, Iqbal and Faiz in the original.
I also translate. I have translated three books of literary theory from English into Urdu, and I founded Urdu in Translation, an online library of Urdu classics with Roman Urdu and English side by side.
Education
PhD candidate in Urdu, Riphah International University (2023-present)
MPhil Urdu, University of Sargodha (2014-2016)
MA Urdu, International Islamic University, Islamabad (2011-2013)
MA English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan (2007-2009)
BEd, Allama Iqbal Open University (2012)
MPhil Urdu, University of Sargodha (2014-2016)
MA Urdu, International Islamic University, Islamabad (2011-2013)
MA English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan (2007-2009)
BEd, Allama Iqbal Open University (2012)
Experience / Qualifications
Lecturer in Urdu, Higher Education Department Punjab (2022-present)
Visiting Lecturer in Urdu, University of Kamalia (2025-present)
Secondary School Educator - Urdu, Punjab School Education Department (2015-2022)
Online Urdu tutor: more than 1,700 lessons taught online
Visiting Lecturer in Urdu, University of Kamalia (2025-present)
Secondary School Educator - Urdu, Punjab School Education Department (2015-2022)
Online Urdu tutor: more than 1,700 lessons taught online
Age
Children (7-12 years old)
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Duration
60 minutes
The class is taught in
English
Urdu
Skills
Availability of a typical week
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