Pashto

[mōdgethanc]

I always assumed the name of Azerbaijan was borrowed from Arabic.

[Meera]

wah wah księżycowy your doing very well księżycowy! But for freind we useaullly use the urdu/persian word dost.

[Meera]

Naghma -toor lawang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgfSKEOz2aM

Naghma-Zama Yari Da
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVSkoLHS4oM

[kalemiye]

pashto sounds so beautiful, it sounds like an indian language

[Meera]

pashto sounds so beautiful, it sounds like an indian language

dera mana and yeah alll my american and non afghan freinds always think im speaking hindi or someother indian language. but omg one time some kid at school overheard me talking to my mom in pashto and thought it was czech or russian

[księżycowy]

wah wah księżycowy your doing very well księżycowy! But for freind we useaullly use the urdu/persian word dost.

And I'd imagine that it's spelled the same as Persian/Urdu as well. Thanks for the tip.
Another 'lesson' will be posted in a few days.

[Meera]

Very Nice song called Allah Gawah de
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MowiiXlP ... 1&index=11

[Abavagada]

Does anyone know any sites where you can watch Pashto TV online for free?
Thanks,
Erik / Aba

[Meera]

http://www.afghansaaz.com/afghantv.htm

[Abavagada]

http://www.afghansaaz.com/afghantv.htm

Thanks. But I couldn't get any of those to work.
I am in the US. Do they only broadcast at certain times?

Erik / Aba

[Sean of the Dead]

I couldn't get any to work either. They must only broadcast at certain times, because I'm sure Meera has used them.

[Meera]

They worked for me the other day. But here is another site you can try:
http://www.virtualafghans.com/afghan_tv/

[alijsh]

Hope it is not repeated: http://www.iranianlinguistics.org/wiki/ ... tle=Pashto

[księżycowy]

Hope the wait wasn't too long

Lesson 2:
Vocab.

دلته	here	څنګه	how
آلمانی	German	تورپېکۍ	masc. name
هندی	Hindi/Indian	زمريالی	fem. name
انګريز	English	او	and
روسی	Russian	نجلۍ	girl
پاکستانی	Pakistani	هلک	boy
افغان	Afghan	بريالی	masc. name
پښتون	Pashto (person)	ښه	good, well
پښتانه	Pashto (pl. form)	ايرانی	Iranian

Grammar:
Personal Pronouns:

Singular		Plural
زه	I	مونږ	We
ته	You	تاسی	You
دی	He	دوی	They
دا	She

دا is also used as a general demonstrative pronoun (i.e. "it is")
تاسی can also be used in the 2nd person singular/plural as a polite form of 'you'
For general/impersonal pronouns use:

سړی

man

خلک

people

The Verb "to be":

Singular		Plural
يم	(I) am	يو	(we) are
یٔې	(you) are	یٔئ / ياست	(you) are
دئ	(he) is	دی	(they) are
ده	(she) is

These forms require the personal pronoun.
Sometimes the third person masc. form of 'to be' and the negative particle are written together as: ندئ = he is not
Ex.
ره هندی یم -- I am Hindi/Indian

Negation:
To negate a sentence use نه right before the verb (نه receives the stress).
یه = no
Exږ
یه ، زه انګریز نه یم -- No I am not English.

[Meera]

use نه for no. n

[księżycowy]

use نه for no. n

Thanks again. I suspected that the language in the textbook would be a little different then the words used now-a-days seeing as the text is from the 80's (I believe).

[Meera]

Yeah, i have never heard anyone use یه or maybe its just not as widely used in khandahar. btw which txtbook is it?

[księżycowy]

Yeah, i have never heard anyone use یه or maybe its just not as widely used in khandahar. btw which txtbook is it?

It's the German textbook that Remy linked to a few posts back.

[Rémy LeBeau]

My textbook from CeLCAR should be coming any day now!

There is also a Newspaper Reader from Dunwoody Press which I'm considering getting. One thing at a time though.

[Rémy LeBeau]

My textbook from CeLCAR should be coming any day now!

There is also a Newspaper Reader from Dunwoody Press which I'm considering getting. One thing at a time though.