Pashto (also known as Pashtu, Pakhto, Pakhtu, Paxto) is the language of the Afghans. And these days many people are learning it. May be the growing interest in learning Pashto is that it is the language of those people who are living in that areas of the world where the whole world is engaged at the time.
Any language you want to learn have three steps: reading, writing and speaking. So is Pashto.
Read Pashto
To learn the language, you must read it frequently. This way you become familiar with words and phrases and increase your vocabulary.
There are numerous Pashto sites where you can read articles, stories, news, books and other stuff, and discuss things with other Pashto speaking people for free.
For general reading, you can visit Tolafghan.com, Benawa.com, Ghorzang.af and Khyberwatch.com. To read current and classic Pashto literature, you can go to Baheer.com, Hewad.com and Lekwal.com.
For latest news reading, there is Pajhwok.com. I must tell you that any news item they publish on this site in Pashto is also available in English.
Learnpashto is a blog where you can find valuable information in this regard.
Write Pashto
To write Pashto with correct grammar is a bit difficult for beginners. But a lot of people have done it and there are many non-Pashtoons who have written a lot of books in Pashto.
If you are familiar with other Eastern languages like Persian, Arabic, Urdu and Sindhi, then you would have no problem to write Pashto.
When you read any interesting article or news on a site, write it yourself. Write some every day phrases and sentences that we use in conversations. Write with correct alphabets and grammar.
This way you improve not only your writing but also increase your reading power and vocabulary.
Speak Pashto
Speaking fluently is a dream of every language learner. There are many softwares available online that help in speaking Pashto. Like Rosetta Stone and some others CD programmes.
But the easiest and most effective way is to find a native Pashto speaker and talk to him/her. This way you can learn speaking with fast and properly.
There are many sites on the Internet where you can find a Pashto speaking partner. For this purpose, you can visit mylanguageexchange, language-exchanges, italki, sharedtalk. etc.
Listening radio and music will also help you improve your speaking power. To listen Pashto radios go to BBCPashto.com, voapashto.com, azadiradio.org etc. To listen Pashto music, visit mastana.com.
To find a full list of Pashto sources on Internet, click here.
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