Pashto
![]() 496 pp., 8.5 x 11 Paperback (1 CD-ROM) ISBN: 9781626162242 (1626162247) December 2015 LC: 2015025550 EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionReviews RELATED SITES Multimedia for intermediate Pashto (go to Other Languages, select Pashto) |
Pashto
An Intermediate Textbook
Rahmon Inomkhojayev
Designated a critical language by the US Department of Defense, Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan and is commonly spoken in parts of Pakistan. This intermediate-level textbook, which follows Pashto: An Elementary Textbook, Volumes 1 and 2, is designed to bring students from high-introductory to intermediate proficiency. It offers students with basic knowledge of Pashto a thematically organized approach that develops strong speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in the language used in everyday life and in official communications, the mass media, and the educational system of Afghanistan.
Rahmon Inomkhojayev is a professor at the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, where he teaches Pashto and Afghan studies. He is from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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"Dr. Rahmon Inomkhojayev must be commended for writing the first textbook of the Pashto language which has become a language of strategic importance for the US and NATO. Pashto: An Intermediate Textbook is an easy to follow content-based language book that focuses on building proficiency in all language skills in a variety of cultural scenarios of life in Afghanistan."—Farooq Babrakzai, Academic Specialist, Defense Language Institute |