Learn to speak Dari with subtlety (PDF; 112kb; 16pp) — Develop your ability to talk about abstract concepts (advantages, disadvantages, causes of things, etc.) using this collection of sentences as a guide. (print based) Language Learner Profile — An online inventory to help you learn about yourself as a language learner. You can read the associated blog post. A guide for expatriates learning to read Dari, Second Edition (PDF; 143kb; 16pp) — a brief guide providing basic information about how Dari is written, explaining the most common conventions and providing intuition for some of the more opaque practices. Use this guide to give yourself a general overview of the Dari alphabet, before either striking out on your own, or using the workbook above We also provide transcription, video recording and subtitling services. Should you need to have an existing video dubbed, a commercial narrated or a telephone system recorded, our native Dari speakers are available to furnish expert voiceover services. The official language of Iran is sometimes called Farsi in English and other languages. This is a correct transliteration of the native name of the language, however many, including the ISO and the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, prefer the name Persian for the language.

On September 25, 2016, the International Assistance Mission made the decision to release as much of its language-learning material as possible under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You can view that materials that have been made available so far in this shared Dropbox folder. Grammar Play Sudoku with local numbers (PDF; 10kb; 1pp) — silly as it sounds, actually using the numbers and thinking about them is the best way to learn

UnisPers or Universal Persian, is a method of writing Persian with the Latin alphabet developed in Iran during the 1950s. The chart shows the letters used to write UniPers, together with their equivalent Persian letters. . Proficiency, Competence, & Planning (PDF; 14.7MB) — a follow-up to the above presentation, describing the ideas of proficiency and proficiency-oriented language-learning, various types of communicative competence, and some tools for planning lessons. There is a handout and the text of the narration for this as well These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. IAM’s Dari and Pashtu Materials (including the Long Course and the Short Course) English is the most commonly spoken second language in the world. It is the language used for International communication in all parts of the world. English is spoken to hold communications related to politics, science, media, or art. It is also the language of entertainment and is used for socializing as well. If you have a good command of the English language helps you get more opportunities in life and your career.

English is a West Germanic language and belongs to the Indo-European language family. English is spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is the official language of 53 countries. It is spoken as the first language and is spoken by 400 million people all over the world.These are narrated slide presentations about language learning. There are references to IAM-specific practices, but the information should be applicable to most learners. Persian makes extensive use of word building and combining affixes, stems, nouns and adjectives together to form new words. Because of such word compounding, Persian can derive over 200 million words. Writing Communicate easily by using the free English to Pashto online translator to instantly translate English words, messages, news, articles, phrases or documents to Pashto.