Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region

[Janana]

Indiana University's Center for Languages of the Central Asian Regions (CeLCAR) was founded in 2002. It is one of fourteen Title VI Foreign Language Resource Centers in the United States and the only one dedicated to the critical languages of Central Asia (and Afghanistan and Pakistan).

CeLCAR is dedicated to promoting the teaching and learning of the languages and cultures of Central Asia through the development of language learning materials (textbooks, workbooks, and multimedia resources), teacher training, distance language courses, and intensive language summer institutes. The less commonly taught languages currently being focused on at CeLCAR are Dari, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Pashto, Tajiki, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek.

CelCAR homepage
Pashto Survival Phrases
Pashto Podcasts
Pashto Writing Video Tutorial
Pashto Alphabet (printable chart)
Textbooks (available for ordering)


Pashto Proficiency Testing (includes guidelines for listening, speaking, reading and writing skills)
Pashto Intermediate Reading and listening Project


*All links and text credit to CeLCAR: Indiana University, Bloomington.

[Darweshkhel]

great stuff thx

[Janana]

Can someone provide some feedback on the podcasts? The gentleman in the recording has an accent I am not familiar with.

[Aryob]

Thats a new accent in Pashto and its called "Da perangiano lahja"

[طالب]

I've heard from a good friend in the US that since the war began a lot of money has been flowing from the state and into such institutions as Indiana to promote the teaching of Pashto. This is obviously in order to satisfy military and NGO needs in Afghanistan.

There is nothing wrong with your links, mind you. We should take advantage of this benefit. Just wanted to point out that Indiana is probably getting paid large sums of money to create all this material.

There is a lot of money going around due to the war.