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Conversation skills
Speak clearly, with consideration
Say what you need, listen properly, handle disagreement, hold a boundary, and work out a way forward the other person will actually agree to.
- Language
- Urdu, with a facing English page explaining every exchange
- Length
- 162 pages
- Contains
- Twelve skills, worked dialogues, written exercises, phrase bank, practice logs
- Formats
- Reading edition, bilingual edition, field guide, PDF, Markdown
- Price
- Free. No account, no payment
Editions
The same book, five ways to read itRead online
Reading edition
Built for a screen. Reflows to any width, lets you set the type size, follows light or dark, and returns you to where you stopped.
Urdu and English
Bilingual edition
The printed book exactly as it was laid out, every Urdu page paired with the English page that explains it. Use this one if you want the explanation in view while you read.
Quick reference
Field guide
All twelve skills and their phrases on one page. Meant for a glance before a difficult conversation, not for study.
Download
The complete bilingual book, ready to print or keep. Nothing to sign up for. The file is yours.
Plain text
Markdown
The whole book as plain text, for searching, quoting, translating, or adapting to your own teaching.
The twelve skills
Each one opens in the reading editionPractice and reference
A note on the dialogues
Every conversation in this book is an invented training example. None of it is meant to be learned by heart. The point is to do the same work in your own ordinary Urdu, with your own vocabulary, at the speed a real exchange moves.