I been learning for about 3.5 months on my own. I’m really looking forward to them adding it. Steve mentioned it’s one of his goals this year so I am hoping it gets added soon 
I also hope the reading material is in Gurmukhi.
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Not Punjabi, but Bengali - but I’m not going to hold my breath that it will be added anytime soon, lol! Wish it would be, but I imagine the audience of learners is small enough to keep it low on the priority list, even despite how many speakers it has.
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How far are you with Bengali? I am at a decent amount of basic comprehension with Punjabi but I want more interaction and speaking practice that doesn’t involve me talking about my private life with some random tutor or something. I recently started immersion/acquisition lessons with HindustaniTongue and they have Bengali too. If you’re interested, I recommend checking it out.
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Still pretty new - I’ve poked at the language for maybe 5 years now, but it’s only been since February that I’ve really started learning it in a focused manner (and we’ll see if I keep it up after my class ends, for that matter…)
If it helps, one of our class rules is that we have a “class life” - eg, our teacher doesn’t expect us to tell the truth about our personal life, we make stuff up so that we’re saying different things and trying out new sentences. I don’t have a sister, but I definitely talked all about “my” sister in my last class!
Will check out that HindustaniTongue suggestion, thanks! Just looked briefly, trying to see if I can get more info (payments, class sign ups) before actually registering, but first glance looks interesting!
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It would be neat if someone uploaded an audiobook of the Guru Granth Sahib with the text. I’m pretty sure it was originally written in Punjabi.
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They will give you a trial lesson too. Contact them to ask about it.
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I tried to give it a go about a year ago, but it was too big a struggle to find resources of any kind. I couldn’t find any books to read, textbooks, movies, youtube, literally anything - except some websites. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places…
interestin…I was just telling someone the other day how punjabi is like the first language that I can find good content in compared to other languages I have learned:smile:on YouTube, I follow a lot of channels on there for listening practice, movies, cartoons, vloggers, etc. Podcasts too. I also get PDF books and there‘s an app called Punjabi Stories which is kinda nice. It’s funny because I couldnt really find websites 
and for textbooks, I have Colloquial Panjabi and Teach Yourself PunjabI but they are enough for a beginner. I like to get to more advanced stuff as soon as possible so I didnt look for any other textbooks.
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