how close is pashtun to farsi?

[dad khaan]

hello everyone

I'm a native Farsi speaker and like to learn Pashto but wanted to know how close are they? does knowing Farsi help me to learn Pashto?

if you know both language and tell me your experience that would be very helpful

thanks a lot

[jama0112]

I don't have much knowlegde about it, but i don't think very much. I have it as hard to understand farsi as punjabi and urdu. Maybe it depends on geography? The more west they(pahstuns) are located, their pahsto is more similiar to farsi. But i could be wrong.

[dad khaan]

I don't have much knowlegde about it, but i don't think very much. I have it as hard to understand farsi as punjabi and urdu. Maybe it depends on geography? The more west they(pahstuns) are located, their pahsto is more similiar to farsi. But i could be wrong.

Well, i can understand about maybe 10% of pashto but i dont know about verb conjunction and things like that which is what im thinking about

[salman47]

Yes you will need Farsi somehow to understand Pashto, afterall they're Sister languages...

[maneatinglizard]

Knowing Farsi will definitely help because that gives you big leg up in terms of vocabulary. We share a lot of words, and many others are similar with slight differences.

However, they’re quite different grammatically, and Pashto’s grammar is complex. Learning conjugations and grammar will be the most difficult part for you, but if you already speak multiple languages, inshallah that’ll help.

[Elias]

How do you want to learn it? Online?

[dad khaan]

i have no other choice than online

do you people know any group on whatapp, telegram or... anywhere else for pashton people?

[dad khaan]

hello everyone

I'm a native Farsi speaker and like to learn Pashto but wanted to know how close are they? does knowing Farsi help me to learn Pashto?

if you know both language and tell me your experience that would be very helpful

thanks a lot

no one ?

[khushal]

They have a pashto course in rosetta stone and also there are many youtube videos as well. If you google it, I'm pretty sure there are many courses.

But pashto is more difficult than farsi because grammer is more complex.

[Pakhton]

parsi is close to pashto and turkish