Monday, August 15, 2005

Learn Pashto as long as you have good ears

Finally! Have been curious about this language ever since America invaded Afghanistan and everybody wanted to find out what kind of a culture we were exterminating.

Pashto is the language of the Pathan/Pashtuns/Pushtun/Pakhtun/Lost Tribe of Israel whatever you want to call them. They occupy the North West Frontier Province (now there's a hangover from colonisation if I ever saw one) of Pakistan and are the majority ethnic group in Afghanistan.

Until now my link to this culture was a friend who hails from the NWFP, however he understandably has better things to do than teach me how to say 'can you touch my penis' in his mother tongue. So, I have been left to trawl the net looking for free sites but to no avail.

But now, I have found it! A free site that teaches you some basic phrases in Pashto. No, it doesn't teach you how to say 'can you touch my penis' but I'm sure the phrase is in the pipeline.

The one downside (other than the whole basic phrases thing) is that, although it has speech files for each of the phrases the person recording the file recites the words really REALLY fast!

However, I haven't found any site that's willing to even touch the Pashtun language for anything less than your credit card number, so use it for free while you can.

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