Learning Objectives

After this module, you can...

• Greet people with the Islamic greeting السلام علیکم (assalām-o-alaikum) and respond with وعلیکم السلام (wa-alaikum-assalām)
• Introduce yourself and say your name: میرا نام ... ہے (merā nām ... hai)
• Ask someone how they are: آپ کیسے ہیں؟ (āp kaise hain?) and reply: میں ٹھیک ہوں، شکریہ (main thīk hūn, shukriyā)
• Say a polite goodbye: اللہ حافظ (allāh hāfiz)
• Recognize that Urdu is written from right to left in Perso-Arabic script