There are many great reasons to learn Urdu…

• Urdu is one of the most widely spoken and understood languages in the world, with around 65m speakers and 52m in India alone.
• Here in Britain, around 400,000 people speak and understand Urdu, making it a vital language for police, health workers, legal professionals, social workers and many other professions.
• If you can speak Urdu, you can also communicate with Hindustani speakers (the fourth most common language in the world) and Punjabi speakers.
• Students who go on to study Urdu at A-level, can gain additional UCAS points which count towards their university applications.
• Urdu is so widespread, even the BBC and Google offer Urdu editions of their services.
• Many English words are commonly used in spoken and written Urdu for example “science” (سائنس).
• Urdu has also contributed a few words to English, including chutney (چٹنی).