Urdu Complete: One-Year Immersion
Script, conversation, poetry, and calligraphy — our flagship guided journey.
What you'll learn
- Read and write Nastaliq fluently, including classical poetry
- Speak idiomatic, graceful Urdu in any setting
- Read Mir, Ghalib, and Faiz in the original with real understanding
- Write your own ghazals and nazms, workshopped live
- Learn Nastaliq calligraphy and finish a framed piece
- Get monthly 1-on-1 mentorship and a personalised study plan
Course curriculum
5 modules · 15 lessons · 140 hours. Green lessons are free previews.
- Welcome to the caravan: how immersion worksPreview18:00
- Your one-year roadmapPreview15:00
- Quiz: Placement assessment30:00
- Full 'Zero to Reading' course, mentor-paced1:00:00
- Weekly live script clinics45:00
- Quiz: Reading fluency checkpoint20:00
- Full 'Adab & Conversation' course1:00:00
- Live conversation circles (weekly)45:00
- Assignment: Recorded conversation evaluation30:00
- Full 'Art of the Ghazal' course1:00:00
- Mir & Ghalib guided readings50:00
- Assignment: Your first complete ghazal1:00:00
- Calligraphy essentials45:00
- Your graduation mushaira — perform your work1:30:00
- Quiz: Final certification exam1:00:00
About this course
Our flagship program: one year, one language, complete transformation. The full path from your first letter to reading Ghalib unaided — combining four courses, weekly live classes, a personal mentor who tracks your progress, monthly mushairas, and a cohort that keeps you accountable. This is how Urdu was always meant to be learned: with ustads, in good company, one beautiful step at a time.
Requirements
- No prior Urdu needed
- Commitment of 4–5 hours per week
Your teacher
Ustad Zafar Hashmi
Urdu Poetry · Poet & Scholar
A published poet and lifelong scholar of Urdu and Persian literature, Ustad Zafar Hashmi has spent three decades teaching the craft of the ghazal and the history of the subcontinent's greatest poets. His courses blend recitation, close reading, and the living tradition of the mushaira — students don't just study poetry with him; they begin to write it.
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