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Practical exercise

Type your name in English and Urdu

The fastest way to learn the keyboard is to type the word you have written ten thousand times in your life, your own name. Today you will type it in both languages, switch between keyboards using the globe key, and end up with a small typed nameplate you can send to your father over WhatsApp.

15 min·starter
Mimi the mascot, encouraging you

Now try it

Type your name in English and Urdu

Stretch

Type the names of all the people who live in your house, one per line, in Urdu. Then translate each one into English on a second line. You should have a two language list of your full family by the end. This is real typing practice with words you actually know.

Goes into your portfolio

A screenshot of a WhatsApp chat with yourself showing your name, a sentence, and emoji, all typed in both English and Urdu.