I find it hard to read Urdu and Persian

[شاہد چرسی]

I can read Arabic and Pashto easily but the Urdu and sometimes Persian font especially hand writing is hard to read.
Is there any way I can become fluent in reading Urdu? I speak street Urdu not formal Urdu so that's also a problem.
I can also understand street Farsi of Kabul but not literary Persian although I have dictionaries.
I know Adabi Pashto however and I have several Pashto dictionaries too.

 

[Imran Khan]

bhai charas pee ker to sunai bhi nhi deta na dikhai deta hai kal subah sab theek ho ga fiker not

 

[شاہد چرسی]

bhai charas pee ker to sunai bhi nhi deta na dikhai deta hai kal subah sab theek ho ga fiker not

Bhai get your facts right. Its only chars not heroin or some other dangerous drug.

 

[DRaisinHerald]

What you find hard to read is Nastaliq (the calligraphic style used by most languages that use the Arabic script i.e. Urdu and Persian, but also Punjabi, Sindhi, Kurdish etc). Naskh is much prettier and easier to read, and is actually used by Arabic and Pashto.
The following is a couplet in Urdu:

 

[شاہد چرسی]

What you find hard to read is Nastaliq (the calligraphic style used by most languages that use the Arabic script i.e. Urdu and Persian, but also Punjabi, Sindhi, Kurdish etc). Naskh is much prettier and easier to read, and is actually used by Arabic and Pashto.
The following is a couplet in Urdu:

Exactly. I can read Naskh with no problems but Nastaliq is hard.

I have "sawan e khumri" of my ancestors but unfortunately I can't read it properly.

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

Both Naskh and Nastaliq are nearly the same. I read them faster than English.

 

[TankMan]

The best way to improve is by reading lots of it.

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

Both Naskh and Nastaliq are nearly the same. I read them faster than English.

Remotely the same , Naskh is meant for reading and Nasta'liq is meant for art. Just look at the third and fourth words in Naskh and compare it Nasta'liq, in Naskh you can easily tell them apart, however Nasta'liq the only thing differentiating the words are the number of dots:

In my opinion using Nasta'liq for reading purposes is a typographic disaster.

 

[شاہد چرسی]

Yes sir it is indeed a typographic disaster considering my first language is Urdu and I find reading Pashto easier.

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

Most of the Urdu I read is Nastaliq. I agree Naskh is easier but Nastaliq looks more familiar.

 

[Ray_of_Hope]

I can read Arabic and Pashto easily but the Urdu and sometimes Persian font especially hand writing is hard to read.
Is there any way I can become fluent in reading Urdu? I speak street Urdu not formal Urdu so that's also a problem.
I can also understand street Farsi of Kabul but not literary Persian although I have dictionaries.
I know Adabi Pashto however and I have several Pashto dictionaries too.

There is not much difference in both formats.Actually nastaliq is more clear and hence easier to read.Also most of the books in urdu have been written in nastaliq