Daily Archives: January 20, 2009

So how hard can it be for a girl to learn her native language, you ask?  Quite difficult, as I found out this past week. Here’s the deal. I really, really, really want to learn to read/write/speak Urdu. More speak, the writing/reading I could care less about.  I want to learn it for my own reasons, but learning Urdu couldn’t hurt if I ever wanted to work for the FBI.  (“The Philadelphia Division is actively looking for Albanian, Urdu, and Farsi speakers.”) Problem is, my parents are too busy to teach me and local class offerings on Urdu are almost nonexistent. I could go the book/online route, but I’m more of a class person. I ran into couple of dead ends before finding an Urdu course offered at UPenn. Then I found out that registering to audit a course for no credit cost the equivalent of $2400. Insanity! I might as well refresh my French for $165 via Temple’s Center City courses. Ugh. One more reason to hate UPenn.