Guide me, please! Directions to learning Pashtu?

[Gulkhan]

I can't really find any, and would really appreicate anybody directing me to Pashtu lessons if there are any. The ones I Found are just so messed up, disarrayed and unarranged that I Couldn't understand where to start :/
-confused

[marwat]

I can't really find any, and would really appreicate anybody directing me to Pashtu lessons if there are any. The ones I Found are just so messed up, disarrayed and unarranged that I Couldn't understand where to start :/
-confused

where are you from? i don't think you can learn pashto through internet. maybe youtube comes in handy a little, but as long as yuu are not a part of society you can't.

[HalloIsBack]

I can't really find any, and would really appreicate anybody directing me to Pashtu lessons if there are any. The ones I Found are just so messed up, disarrayed and unarranged that I Couldn't understand where to start :/
-confused

ask [MENTION=1034]Badlun[/MENTION] lol
we have lots of pashto source just check the sections
if you need help open a thread and let guide you

[HalloIsBack]

where are you from? i don't think you can learn pashto through internet. maybe youtube comes in handy a little, but as long as yuu are not a part of society you can't.

you can!
yes you can!
it depends on you!
only you!
everybody has got his own way to learn a language
don't irritate him!

[marwat]

you can!
yes you can!
it depends on you!
only you!
everybody has got his own way to learn a language
don't irritate him!

how can you tell? you are not a pashto speaker even

[HalloIsBack]

how can you tell? you are not a pashto speaker even

so what?
a not pashtun speaker can laern pashto too :P

[marwat]

so what?
a not pashtun speaker can laern pashto too :P

yes but not through internet

[HalloIsBack]

yes but not through internet

sure?
never underestimate others!

[Yousufzai]

Most free language learning resources tend to be disorganized and a pain to work through, especially when you're dealing with relatively obscure languages like Pashto. The quickest way to learn a language is to live in an area where it's actually spoken, so you're in an environment where you interact with native speakers all the time.

Of course that's usually not possible for most people, so I'd say Rosetta Stone is the next best thing, if you're serious and actually willing to pay for this (it's pretty expensive). RS is good because it has a very distinctive method of instruction. From what I've heard, the lessons are difficult at first when you're mastering the basics and laying the groundwork for everything, but after that, learning the language becomes extremely easy. That's just how the program is created.

Regarding free online resources, I've heard GLOSS is pretty good. Just select the Pashto option and you'll get 239 free lessons. Scola can be another valuable resource, though the site's a mess and it can be a bit of a challenge to find what you need on there. They do have a lot of stuff that looks good, though. Here are the results for everything Pashto related on there.

Youtube has some good channels, the best of which is Alliance Bay Realty. They have almost 300 videos, a lot of which seem helpful.

There are lots of good Pashto channels which you might find useful too. Check out these live streams of Shamshad TV, Sharq TV, Pashto 1, Pashto TV, and Khyber. Also, here are the Youtube channels of BBC Pashto and VoA Pashto.

Lastly, if you ever need to look up specific words, thePashto.com is definitely the place to go.

Of course, it's difficult to learn any language for free on the internet, so my advice to you is that you use these resources as a supplement to maybe living among Pashtuns, taking some kind of an actual course, or just using RS. Good luck!

[DaZahroJaam.]

Find two Pashtuns and watch them communicate. You can spend years following the vocabulary and grammar rules of a language, get bored out of your mind and abandon the idea or you can start off with 5 common phrases. Then watch some tv in that language. Move on to reading children's books and trying to figure what is being communicated. Have horriblly ill constructed conversations with people of the language you intend on speaking (you have to be a good conversationalist or a people's person or you will start getting on people's nerves) and then start aiming for perfection.
Ta'daaa! You have yourself a new language learnt.

[DaZahroJaam.]

I really want to bug someone. Would anyone like to have an argument??

[کیش]

Why learn Pashto when Arabic is the best language (After English, of course) ever spoken. Such beauty is the grammatical structure.