Here you can find two courses of Arabic and of Urdu. In the each course you could read more interesting information about sounds with comparison of English. Also, there are many history of development of learning language.
If you want to know about one of official language of Pakistan, you will could see the course about Urdu.
If you are only to travel to different countries of Near East, you will look on the course of Arabic with commentaries.
Phonology of languages 