Pure Pashto - Useful or Not ?

[EinDeutscher]

SHG (Standard High German).... Before it became the national language, no one spoke it as their native tongue. SHG was created mostly by taking Thuringian and Upper Saxon, and then adding a few tweaks to it. It wasn't a native local language spoken in any part of Germany before getting official status.

The information you have is wrong. You should read: "Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present" [http://www.amazon.com/Germanic-Stand...dp/1588114376]

[یاسمینه]

No it does not in reality. Modern Arabic is a Semitic language the word order is completely different [Subject-Verb-Object] while Pashto is Subject-Object-Verb. The way verbs are conjugated is also completely different vowels are put in before, the middle and after the consonant roots; Pashto uses verbal affixes to show tense. In Arabic, prepositions changes with the pronouns e.g fiya [in -first person], fika [in - second person], fihi [in - third person]; Pashto uses adpositions [a combination of preposition and postposition] e.g. da/la ... sara and these do not change with tense or gender.

What I wrote above was based on my experience. It was not a general statement. It makes a difference.
So for me the knowledge of Arabic and Persian grammar was useful and helped a lot. I didn't have to figure out what is the meaning of "asnad", "afkar" because I knew Arabic plural form. The same with reading some Arabic expressions in Pashto texts because I knew how to read sun and moon letters. Reading the famous Pashto poem about Amir Kror I could easily recognize in which parts the author applied the syntax typical for Persian language, or why in the language of diplomacy "ambassador" is still caller "safir-e kabir" and not "kabir safir"...
I am not a native Pashto speaker. Yet I try to be a conscious user of this language.

[EinDeutscher]

I am not a native Pashto speaker. Yet I try to be a conscious user of this language.

I am not a native speaker either. Am learning the language but since I learnt other languages, I started understanding how grammar works, thats why just pointed it out friend Each experience differs, all my friends tell me to use "pure" Pashto since I use a lot of Farsi but friends on this forum are telling me to use Farsi so I am just confused.

[Damir9000]

i can only speak a little pashto :/

start now

https://www.youtube.com/user/LearnPashto/videos