Urdu Qaida: Learn to Read Urdu

Urdu Qaida for kids and beginners: learn to read Urdu the way teachers teach it, one letter at a time, from the Urdu alphabet (Alif Bay Pay) to real words and full sentences. It is a fully offline Urdu learning app with no ads, for children from age 5, for adults learning Urdu script, and for families abroad who speak Urdu but never learned to read it. If you have wished for a lesson path like the big language apps, but for Urdu reading, this is it. Meet Marko, the little markhor. He says every letter and word aloud in a clear, natural Urdu voice, cheers when you get it right, and never shows you a letter you have not learned yet. HOW IT WORKS • 13 units, one small lesson at a time: hear the letter, find it among look-alikes, see where it sits in a word, trace it, blend it with a vowel, then a four-question check. • Letters are taught in frequency order, so the first six letters already make real words. • Dots-confusable letters (ب پ ت ٹ ث) are taught together, so you learn to tell them apart. • Vowel marks (zabar, zer, pesh) come after the first letters, and stay on until you can read without them. • Join, blend, build words from tiles, dictation, and a unit check that unlocks the next unit. • Naskh for learning, Nastaliq for print: switch between Naskh and Nastaliq any time and re-read earlier units. • Reading speed timer against the commonly used grade-2 benchmark of 60 correct words per minute, so progress is measurable. • Montessori-style order: sound first, shape second, then trace, then build. FOR TEACHERS • Teacher mode with a PIN: class roster, lesson scripts (I do, we do, you do), group activities. • Reading assessment modelled on the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA): letter sounds, nonwords, familiar words, passage, comprehension. Results per child, over time. • Works on one shared phone in a classroom with no internet. FOR PARENTS • Family mode for one to three children on one phone. • Parent report you can share on WhatsApp: units passed, letters and words solid, reading speed, what to practise next. The parent report and the reading assessment use the same bands, so home and school see the same picture. • Spaced review cards bring back exactly the letters and words a child keeps missing. ACCESSIBILITY • Large text, wider letter spacing (dyslexia-friendly), audio-first mode, romanisation on or off. • Child, adult and heritage-speaker tracks change the pace and the hints. PRIVACY • 100% offline. No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Everything stays on your phone. Export a backup whenever you like. Made in Pakistan by one developer. The course, its research and the code are open at github.com/oyekamal/urdu-reading-course. Found a wrong sound or a bug? The More tab has a WhatsApp button.