Speaking Afghan Pashto

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Peshawar, Colorado Springs: The Interlit Foundation, 1996. - xix, 435 p.A basic intensive course on the eastern Afghan variety designed for NGOs, development agencies, and academics. Dialogues, pronunciation drills, grammatical explanations, exercises, comprehension drills, vocabulary lists, and proverbs.This language learning resource is designed to help learners acquire conversational ability in Afghan Pashto. Speaking Afghan Pashto is a language learning resource designed to help learners acquire conversational ability in Afghan Pashto. Each Lesson includes dialogues, pronunciation drills and grammatical explanations, augmented by exercises, comprehension drills, vocabulary lists, and proverbs, all in easy-to-use phonetic script with English explanations. This course is designed to provide the basis for an intensive language learning program for students, relief and development workers and agencies assisting in the reconstruction of Afghanistan or working in neighboring Pakistan.The book will be of special interest to development agencies and NGOs, and their international sponsors, as well as to universities offering, or desirous of offering, a Pashto Language Course as a part of their Near and Middle Eastern Studies or Iranian Languages Programs.