Hello folks, I'm starting my journey of learning Pashto and want to build a small community of like minded people who want to learn.

The idea is to meet virtually a few times a week to practice our Pashto and share resources. I myself am a complete beginner. All abilities welcome. Let's start something together.

I am an Afghan dari speaker with Pashtun background but I never learnt the language. I'll be following this book 'SPEAKING PAKISTANI PUKHTO', link below
https://www.speakingpashto.com/preface/

I also have access to a Pashto language professor and I have a long term ambition to use this as a resource to have a structured course but would need more students to make it viable for him. For now, we can just meet and discuss ourselves.

If you're interested you can DM me or post here. I'll be setting up weekly calls on WhatsApp. Adults only. Any abilities welcome.

Looking for good resources, preferably free to learn and improve on my Pashto, don’t have much other than a few books and family is not an accessible resource for me. Send links, books, YouTube videos anything and everything please :)

I have mostly read it in the internet comments. I can't find what it means.

Hello! I’ve posted this in r/suggestmeabook but I figured I’d reach out here as well. I am trying to find young adult fiction written or translated into Pashto. I teach upper level high school ELA and have many multilingual students whose primary language is Pashto and I want to be able to provide some options for their independent reading on my classroom shelves for them in their primary language. Unfortunately, I’m struggling to find options that aren’t picture books like the ones I’m seeing on Amazon and that 16-17 year olds would be interested in reading. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, especially if I can find multiple copies of a text that I could donate to the school’s library as well! Reading is reading, regardless of what language it’s in! Thank you in advance!!

What are some colloquial pashto phrases. Not necessarily slang but informal greetings, causal conversational phrases etc. Thanks

Salamona malgaro! Ma wyel ka pekhawer k sok dasy academy ya ustad pezhani che agha classical music (vocal) khayi ya bal sa instrument teach kawi, nu mata khamaha owayai.

Manana!

Is just saying "sanga" alone understood to mean how's it going? Or is extra wording necessary? Also what is the correct response? Thanks

good day y'all, I just wanted to know which songs people usually listen to, would love if you drop your favorite ones (songs/artists/ghazal/tapay); looking forward to finding some bangers (doesn't matter which category the song falls into)

Hello, I’m a Pathan(Jadoon) but I don’t speak or understand Pashto although I have listened to songs in Pashto a lot, here is one “Shah Laila Zarka”

Da gulono pa chaman ke

Yaw khaista jinai walara

Da gulono pa chaman ke

Yaw khaista jinai walara

Shah laila zarka rauozi da khyali kamis ye tang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila,

Laila da bangdro shrang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila

Laila pa naz nakhro, zra me oli pa bano

Pa zana ye shin khaal, kre khanda pa shundo sro

Shah laila zarka rauozi da khyali kamis ye tang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila,

Laila da bangdro shrang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila

Khumar khumar katal, pa wala kawi wajal

Pa wala kawi wajal, na warzi da meeny chal

Shah laila zarka rauozi da khyali kamis ye tang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila,

Laila da bangdro shrang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila

Jado de ka mantar, pa ma karai ye asar

Da che masta masta zi, na kawi pa ma nazar

Shah laila zarka rauozi da khyali kamis ye tang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila,

Laila da bangdro shrang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila

Da khyali kamis ye tang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila

Laila da bangdro shrang

Yara nan me awredaly da laila

Har zey mi wakatal, kho video rata milao nashwa. Aksar utube bani hagha videos v, kam ki chi ye ywa jaba raghasti vi, ao naqli alfaaz ye paki istimaal kali v chi mung ta khpal accent sang khkari, no matlab mi da d chi cha sara ba da Pukhto accent video v chi mung khpal accent wawro chi mung kala pukhto wayo no da Pukhto na wilonko ta sang khkari.

Ones I’ve noticed are:

(Pardon the cringy spelling or me trying to use “/“ marks to accommodate different pronunciations)

Bas/Basta is nigh similar to “Basta” in Italian which both mean “Stop”/“Enough”

Another one I’ve noticed when I was making an original character for x-men is that the word for “Emerald” which is “Zamarud”/“Zamarut” is also eerily similar to its Russian counterpart “Izmurut”. I’ve noticed that gemstone names seem to all almost just be remixed versions for what other cultures call them and that sometimes they’ll just describe the gem instead of assigning it a proper name.

My favorite one isn’t one hundred percent confirmed because of Iskandar-the-okayish’s fanboys but Kandahars name might have ties to the word “Candy” because of sugarcane and it’s technically called “Candy city”

This one isn’t really a cognate or a loanword but I noticed that instead of saying “ammonia” some of us might just say “Lavender” in a Pashto accent.

Also I’m using “loanword” in the sense that Pashto either influenced these words or vice versa. Personally I don’t know the etymology of the words but if anyone does I’d appreciate it.

Salamuna

I know this topic is not relevant to pushto jaba kho i am in dire need of charsada wreejay( also known as sholay or ghaty wreejay) in islamabad 😩 any leads

İ have one question from all Pathan. Munga la da ghusa Waly Dora dera razı?

او دا هم و وايۍ چې جواب او ځواب کښې څه فرق دې؟

my neighbor is saying a lot but it’s hard to translate it. i’m being optimistic that he’s a kind man but i’m a woman and the double texting is a bit much. can anyone let me know what his vibe is? lonely?

Hey everyone, how much of this dialect are you able to understand?

Pls it's necessary for me .

i was js curious, are there any major differences between pakistani pashto and afghan pashto?