Learn Dari: Your First Dari Words, Conversation, Reading and Writing, Grammar, and Vocabulary

LIKE !! Close friends from Afghanistan have looked over "Dari As A Second Language", been highly impressed, and now are asking if Syed Naqibullah has done or will consider doing a reverse equivalent that could be called something like "English As A Second Language, for Dari and Farsi Speakers". They were delighted by the thoroughness of "Dari As A Second Language" and now are badgering me to find a reverse equivalent suitable for a newly arrived person with strong high school education in Kabul but so far only limited fluency in English language. So, Sayed Naqibullah and friends, can you offer any suggestions? Tashakor from Seattle !!

It's helped me so much. I am hosting Afghan refugees and trying to learn Dari as fast as possible. The Dari speakers like it almost as much as I do.

Nice amount of vocab, stories and exercises, but I wish it had an audio CD to go with, so that I could be sure of my pronunciation.

This book goes wayyyyyy too fast for beginners. Without someone to help you. You will fail. Don’t bother getting this book unless you have help from a tutor who knows Dari.

It is something I was looking for

Looks good to me

I am a native Dari speaker and bought this book for my daughter (college student) who wanted to learn the language properly. This book starts ok with some vocabularies, but then it jumps to more complex sentence structures and it assumes that the reader/student already knows the basics. It goes into writing the words and sentences. It’s not a step by step learning tool. It jumps from basics words and it’s phonetics to writing long sentences. My daughter gave up on it after two days. I returned it. If this wasn’t a good learning book for my daughter who speaks broken Dari, I don’t think it’s a good book for a non speaker…