KARACHI: A duo of brilliant students from Sukkur Institute of Business Administration (SIBA) have launched an educational app for kids; Urdu Qaida. The targeted users of this app are those Pakistanis who live abroad and want their children to learn their motherland language, Urdu.
This app is available for free on all android phones. Urdu Qaida is an interactive app and has been particularly designed to make Urdu learning a fun for today’s kids. This app teaches Urdu through five phases; Urdu Qaida (Urdu alphabet), Mashq Copy (exercise book), Shaklein Pehchanein (recognize the pictures), Matching game and Bubble game.
In the first phase of Urdu Qaida, there will be flash cards with voiceover that will enable the children to learn Urdu alphabets. In the second phase Mashq Copy, you will find an interactive game that will enable the children to write Urdu letters with the help of four different colors of pens.
Shaklein Pehchanein will be more fun for kids. They will have to identify the picture by selecting the correct answer from the given option. Matching game will further enhance their capabilities by enabling the children to match the picture with the relevant word. In the last phase Bubble game, they will have to identify the correct letter flashing in the bubble.
This innovative duo had already launched a successful app for Pakistani news watchers. These entrepreneurs are working hard to serve the Pakistanis as said by Assadullah Laghari, the developer of this app, “People are developing mobile apps for foreign companies and clients and making money, but we wish to serve Pakistanis whether living in the country or overseas”.
The marketing half of this duo Imran Laghari says, we want this and our other upcoming apps to be available on iPhones and Window phones, and yes, we do not only wish but we are working on that as well.
In future they plan to develop other apps particularly for Pakistani children living abroad. These apps will include content like Islamic information, teachings of the Quran, life of the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) and proper way to offer Namaz.
Briefing about the need to launch the Urdu Qaida app, Imran Laghari said, “Well, I would like to give credit to our teacher and mentor Sir Ali Akbar Rizvi (Ex-Director Centre for Entrepreneurial Development and Leadership Sukkur IBA) for initiating and imparting this idea into our minds. He said that our nation’s kids living out of the country need to have a full command over our national language. They must be aware of the beauty of this civilized language.”
He further added, “Kids nowadays are more tech savvy than they used to be in recent past. You will find even a two year kid having a tablet pc and using it like an adult. So we felt the need to launch this app as children do not want to learn through orthodox teaching methods anymore.”
A great share of this success goes to the Sukkur IBA Incubation Center as well, that keeps producing such entrepreneurs for our society.
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