Official Language of Afghanistan

Languages Spoken in Afghanistan

The people of Afghanistan speak Dari Persian and Pashtu. The primary national and official language of Afghanistan is Pashtu. Pashtu is a Indo-Iranian language and placed 43rd based on number of native speakers of 23 million.
We’ve released a collection of common Pashtu tourist language phrases or words, that any visitor can use to manage in Afghanistan. We strongly suggest you master them from Pashtu words and phrases website.

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Advice For Learning Pashtu Language

• Conversation and more conversation in Pashtu - The secret to master Pashtu is countless hours of conversation with people who speaks Pashtu far better than you. An hour or so of conversation (with corrections and Pashtu dictionary for reference) is as beneficial as five hours in a Pashtu class room and 10 hours with a Pashtu language course on your own.
• Studying Pashtu language for three or four hours each day for two weeks is a lot more effective for mastering Pashtu than learning one hour daily for three months. It is no wonder that lots of Pashtu students who take language courses in class and never remember it in the long run. The secret to learn the Pashtu is intensity of of study.
• Begin with the One hundred most commonly used Pashtu words and attempt to make sentences using them. Learn adequate Pashtu grammar to be able to try this and do it till you feel pretty confident with all of them.
• Continue learning these sentence in your mind. One other usage for your dictionary is that you can practice these sentences in Pashtu while going about your day and never speaking to any one.
• Carry a pocket Pashtu dictionary or an English-Pashtu dictionary app on your smartphone.
• Work out the Pashtu pronunciation patterns.
• Use Pashtu audio and online courses for the first 100 phrases and basic grammar in Pashtu language.
• Following the first 100 phrases in Pashtu, give attention to starting to be conversational. Research has shown that the most common 100 words in Pashtu language account for 50% of all spoken communication. The most everyday 1,000 words account for 80% of all spoken conversation.
• “How do you say X?” in Pashtu is the most important sentence you can possibly learn. Learn it early and use it often.

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What do I need to learn Pashtu language?

• Pashtu language courses are offered as conventional language courses, audio courses and online courses. The traditional Pashtu courses are composed of dialogue textbooks, explanation of Pashtu grammer and exercises. Often they come either in CDs or MP3s.
  Most of these courses are ideal for complete beginners or people who have only minimum knowledge of the Pashtu language.

  One of the major providers these Pashtu language courses is Linguaphone who also have courses for more than 100 languages and consist of all audio courses, explorer courses for those who would like to learn the basics, and in-depth courses for more serious students.

  The other company of language courses is Teach Yourself and Colloquial courses and they offer a great deal of languages.

• Pashtu Audio Courses is generally made of CDs or MP3s with limited printed material. All dialogues, exercises, instructions and explanations of %%are recorded and the focus of these courses is teaching you to comprehend and speak the language.
• Pimsleur language courses provides you with authentic pronunciation in Pashtu and a acceptable level of vocabulary.
• Computer Based Language Learning can be found on CD-ROMs and DVDs. All these courses often contain dialogues, audio, exercises and tests in Pashtu.
  Teach Me! and Transparent Language give a wide variety of language courses on CDs and MP3s with vocabularly and grammar exercises.

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