[header] How to learn uzbek [title] Obtain uzbek language learning materials. [step] Before the fall of the soviet union, uzbek was not a widely published foreign language. However, there is a small but steadily growing array of phrasebooks, self-teaching courses, textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries available in english on uzbek. 
If you read turkish or russian, you will find even more resources available at your disposal. [substeps] Check what's available online, at your local library, and local book shop; universities with turkic and central asian studies programs may also have a broader selection of uzbek references as well.