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Zalmai, your native Pashto teacher
Regular live classes in small groups. Ask questions, practice conversation, progress fast.
You speak Pashto every week, with a native teacher
You join whichever slot suits you, with nothing to book. The joining link arrives by email, and the session is recorded.
- 4 slots this week, across all three levels
- 2 to 5 students per class, all at your level
- Replay available the same evening, with no time limit

Reconnect with Pashto
The language of your parents, your grandparents or your partner. The one you want to pass on to your children.





- Finally understand what is said at the table, and answer back.
- Your in-laws speak Pashto to you. Answer them in Pashto.
A language is passed down from generation to generation. Now it is your turn.
Start for freeProgress in Pashto between classes, at your own pace
Interactive lessons with native audio, vocabulary, dialogues and quizzes. Everything you need to reinforce your skills between live sessions.
Between classes, you move forward twenty minutes a day
Lessons follow one another in order, with no evening to set aside. Every word is recorded by a native speaker.
- 310 lessons across 55 modules, from beginner to advanced
- Native audio on every word, with a slow-down button
- Your progress is kept, on phone and on computer alike
You hear the language as it is actually spoken
The recordings are made by native speakers, not by a synthetic voice. The slow-down button separates the sounds when it goes too fast.
- Every sentence can be played and slowed down
- The transcription and translation sit under the audio
- You replay it as many times as you need, with no limit
Every module ends with a quiz, not with a ticked box
You are corrected on the spot, with the explanation. A failed quiz can be retaken, with no penalty and no record.
- Immediate correction, with the right answer explained
- An end-of-level test opens the next level
- A level certificate at the end of the course
Your Pashto level, certified in your name
- Issued once you have passed every lesson of a level: beginner, intermediate or advanced
- Downloadable as a PDF and shareable on LinkedIn
- A unique number, verifiable online on targumi.com
- Included in the plans with live classes, from the first payment: it is not issued during the trial
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Your Pashto curriculum
Exactly what you'll find inside the platform: 55 modules, 310+ structured lessons, quizzes and exercises.
- Introducing yourself , ځان پېژندنه10 min
- Polite Expressions , ادب او درناوی10 min
- The chaikhana , د چای خانه10 min
- Family Members , د کورنۍ غړي10 min
- Hierarchy and Pashtunwali , درجه او پښتونولي10 min
- Brothers, sisters, cousins , وروڼه، خویندې، تربورګان10 min
- Talking About Your Family , د خپلې کورنۍ په اړه خبرې10 min
- Family Review , بیاکتنه: کورنۍ10 min
- At the Market , په بازار کې10 min
- Fruits and vegetables , میوې او سبزي10 min
- Bargaining , چنې وهل10 min
- Clothing and Fabrics , جامې او ټوکر10 min
- Market Review , بیاکتنه: بازار10 min
- Pashtun cuisine , د پښتنو خواړه10 min
- The Kabuli pulao , کابلي پلو10 min
- Āshak and Mantu , آشک او منتو10 min
- Pashtun tea , د پښتنو چای10 min
- Peshawar and the Khyber Pass , پېښور او خیبر10 min
- The Cardinal Points , څلور خواوې10 min
- Pashtun Transport , د پښتنو سفر10 min
- The Khyber Pass , د خیبر لار10 min
- Chapli Kebab , چپلي کباب10 min
- Mantu and Bolani , منتو او بولاني10 min
- Sheer Chai , شیر چای10 min
- Festive cuisine , د واده خوراک10 min
- Khandan , د کورنۍ جوړښت10 min
- Jirga , د جرګې نظام10 min
- Pashtunwali , پښتونولي10 min
- Wada, The Pashtun Wedding10 min
- Peshawar , پېښور10 min
- Quetta and Kandahar , کوټه او کندهار10 min
- Jalalabad , جلال آباد10 min
- Pashtun Transportation , د سفر لارې10 min
- Khyber and Hindu Kush , خیبر او هندوکش10 min
- Swat Valley , د سوات دره10 min
- Climate and seasons , موسم10 min
- Wildlife , ځنګلي حیوانات10 min
- Attan , اتن10 min
- Landai , لنډۍ شعر10 min
- Pashtun Cinema , پښتو سینما10 min
- Cultural Heritage , میراث10 min
- JazzCash , جیز کیش10 min
- Mobile phones in Pakistan , موبایل10 min
- Apps and Social Media , ایپس10 min
- Hundi and hawala , حواله10 min
- Parts of the Body , د بدن غړي10 min
- Common illnesses , عام ناروغۍ10 min
- At the Doctor's , د ډاکټر سره10 min
- Hygiene and Well-Being , پاکوالی10 min
- The Weather , هوا څنګه ده؟10 min
- The Four Seasons, څلور فصلونه10 min
- The months , میاشتې10 min
- Mountain climate , د غرونو هوا10 min
- The Rooms of the House , د کور خونې10 min
- Furniture , د کور سامان10 min
- Household Chores , د کور کارونه10 min
- Daily life , د ورځني ژوند10 min
- The perahan tunban , پیراهن تنبان10 min
- Shoes and accessories , څپلۍ10 min
- Women's Jewelry , د ښځو ګاڼې10 min
- Buying clothes , د جامو پېرل10 min
- Buzkashi and Sports , بزکشي او لوبې10 min
- Everyday Music , موسیقي10 min
- Children's Games , د ماشومانو لوبې10 min
- Reading and TV , کتاب او ټلويزون10 min
- Traditional professions , د پښتنو مسلکونه10 min
- Modern professions , نوي مسلکونه10 min
- Talking About Work , د کار خبرې10 min
- Aspirations and Dreams , د راتلونکي خوبونه10 min
- Farm Animals , کور حیوانات10 min
- Wild animals , د ځنګلونو حیوانات10 min
- Birds and Insects , مرغان او چینجیان10 min
- My favorite animal , زما خوښ حیوان10 min
- Primary Colors , اصلي رنګونه10 min
- Secondary Colors , نور رنګونه10 min
- Geometric shapes , هندسي شکلونه10 min
- Describing an Object, د یو شي تشریح10 min
- Booking a Table , د مېز خاص کول10 min
- Ordering a Meal , د خوراک امر10 min
- During the Meal , د خوراک پر مهال10 min
- Paying the Bill , حساب ورکول10 min
- School and teachers , ښوونځی او استاد10 min
- School supplies , د ښوونځي سامان10 min
- School subjects , مضامین10 min
- Exams and Grades , ازموینه او نمرې10 min
- On the Phone, په تلیفون کې10 min
- Making an Appointment , د ملاقات وخت10 min
- Cancel or postpone , لغوه کول10 min
- Confirming an appointment , د ملاقات تایید10 min
- Welcoming a guest , مېلمه راتلل10 min
- Serving Tea , د چای وړاندې کول10 min
- Giving a gift , ډالۍ ورکول10 min
- Taking polite leave , د خداۍ پامان10 min
- Islam and Prayer , اسلام او لمونځ10 min
- Ramadan , رمضان10 min
- Eid al-Fitr , د کوچنۍ اختر10 min
- Eid al-Adha , لوی اختر10 min
- Joy and sadness , خوشحالي او غم10 min
- Anger and Fear , قهر او وېره10 min
- Love and friendship , مینه او دوستي10 min
- Hope and regret , هیله او افسوس10 min
- Hiking , د غرونو سفر10 min
- Fishing and the river , د سیند کب نیول10 min
- Flowers and plants , ګلونه او نباتات10 min
- Camping and bivouacking , د خېمې شپه10 min
- Origins of the Pashtuns , د پښتنو اصل10 min
- Ahmad Shah Durrani , احمد شاه دراني10 min
- The Anglo-Afghan Wars , د افغان-انګریز جنګونه10 min
- Modern Pashtuns , اوسني پښتانه10 min
- + 6 more
- CV and Job Applications , سي وي او غوښتنلیک15 min
- The job interview , مرکه15 min
- At the Office , په دفتر کې15 min
- Trade and Business , سوداګري15 min
- Afghan Entrepreneurship , افغاني کاروبار12 min
- + 5 more
- The press and the radio , مطبوعات او رادیو15 min
- Television and Social Media , تلویزیون او ټولنیز رسنۍ15 min
- Understanding the News , د خبرونو پوهاوی15 min
- Debating and Arguing , بحث او دلیل15 min
- Reading a Pashto Newspaper , د پښتو ورځپاڼې لوستل12 min
- + 6 more
- The political system , سیاسي نظام15 min
- Social issues , ټولنیزې مسلې15 min
- Justice and Rights , عدالت او حقونه15 min
- Pashtun identity and culture , پیژندنه او کلتور15 min
- Diaspora and Politics , مهاجرت او سیاست13 min
- + 6 more
- The Afghan Economy , افغان اقتصاد13 min
- The Traditional Market , د کلاسیک بازار12 min
- Banking and Finance, بانکونه او مالیه12 min
- Afghan agriculture , افغان کرنه12 min
- Trade and Logistics , سوداګري او لوژستیک12 min
- + 7 more
- The Afghan education system , افغان د زده کړې نظام13 min
- At University , په پوهنتون کې13 min
- Learning languages , د ژبو زده کړه12 min
- Mathematics and science , ریاضي او ساینس12 min
- Girls' Education , د جینکو زده کړه13 min
- + 2 more
- History of Pashto Literature , د پښتو ادب تاریخ13 min
- Khushal Khan Khattak , خوشحال خټک13 min
- Rahman Baba , رحمان بابا13 min
- The Landai , لنډۍ13 min
- Modern literature , جدید پښتو ادب13 min
- + 7 more
- Geography of Afghanistan , د افغانستان جغرافیه13 min
- Climate and Drought , اقلیم او وچکالي13 min
- Fauna and flora , حیوانات او نباتات12 min
- Pollution and Waste Management , ککړتیا او د ګټو مدیریت12 min
- Water and Irrigation , اوبه او اوبه خور12 min
- + 1 more
- History of Afghan sciences , د افغان ساینس تاریخ13 min
- Technology and the Internet , ټکنالوژي او انټرنیټ12 min
- Modern medicine , جدید طب13 min
- Artificial intelligence , مصنوعي ذکاوت12 min
- Energy and Resources , انرژي او سرچینې12 min
- + 1 more
- Afghan Diplomacy, افغان دیپلوماسي13 min
- Regional Relations , سیمه ییزې اړیکې12 min
- The UN and Afghanistan , ملګري ملتونه او افغانستان12 min
- Peace negotiations , د سولې خبرې اترې13 min
- Human Rights and International Organizations , د بشري حقونو13 min
- + 2 more
- Islam in Afghanistan , په افغانستان کې اسلام13 min
- Ramadan , د روژې میاشت12 min
- The Pashtunwali , پښتونوالی13 min
- Melmastia: hospitality , ملمستیا12 min
- Badal and Nanawatay: Tribal Justice , بدل او ننواتی13 min
- + 4 more
- The Pashtun diaspora around the world , د پښتنو مهاجرت13 min
- Pashtuns in Pakistan , په پاکستان کې پښتانه12 min
- Pashtuns in Europe , په اروپا کې پښتانه12 min
- Pashto communities online , آنلاین پښتنې ټولنې12 min
- Profession and Career , کسب او مسلک13 min
- + 5 more
- Pashto Idiomatic Expressions13 min
- Pashtun Culture , Pashtunwali12 min
- + 2 more
- د تصوف کلمې , Sufi Lexicon in Pashto14 min
- شفاهي روایت , Mystical Oral Transmission14 min
- پښتو د خدای ژبه , Pashto, a Sacred Language15 min
- + 2 more
- د خوشحال خان مینه , Love in the Ghazals16 min
- د غزل تحلیل , Analyzing a Ghazal by Khushal Khan17 min
- د خوشحال خان فلسفه , Philosophy and Wisdom16 min
- د جنګ ژبه , War vocabulary15 min
- قبیله او هویت , Tribe and Identity in Khushal Khan15 min
- + 2 more
- د عرفان لاره , Rahman Baba's Mystical Path16 min
- د عشق ژبه , The vocabulary of mystical love15 min
- د فراق غزلیات , The ghazals of separation16 min
- د رحمان بابا مزار , The Peshawar Shrine14 min
- ښځه او شاعري , Women in Rahman Baba's Poetry14 min
- + 2 more
- خیر البیان , The First Pashto Prose Book16 min
- روشنایي , Light as the path to salvation15 min
- د روشانیانو مقاومت , Resistance and Persecution15 min
- د روشانیانو میراث , The Roshani Cultural Legacy14 min
- تمنایي , The Subjunctive and Optative in Pashto16 min
- + 2 more
- پښتونولي , The Pashtun Code of Life16 min
- ننګ او غیرت , Pashtun honor in depth16 min
- ملماستیا , Hospitality, a Pillar of Pashtun Society14 min
- بدل , Vengeance and Reparation in the Pashtunwali15 min
- جرګه , The Tribal Assembly and Its Functions15 min
- + 2 more
- د کابل سقوط , The vocabulary of political transition16 min
- د ښځو زده کړه , The Ban on Women's Education15 min
- د طالبانو پښتو , Taliban Dialects and Registers16 min
- کډوالي , The 2021 Exodus and the Language of Pain14 min
- راډیو او رسنۍ , Pashtun Resistance Media14 min
- + 2 more
- د ډیورنډ کرښه , The border that divides16 min
- خیبر پښتونخوا , The Pashtun Province of Pakistan15 min
- کوټه , The Pashtuns of Quetta and Balochistan14 min
- د پشاور پښتو , The Urban Pashto of Peshawar15 min
- PTM , د پښتنو د حقونو غورځنګ15 min
- + 2 more
- د دیاسپورا نقشه , Geography of the diaspora16 min
- د دوو ژبو ترمنځ , Identity and Bilingualism in the Diaspora15 min
- د رقم لیږد , The Pashtun Diaspora Economy14 min
- کوچنی نسل , Pashtun youth in the diaspora14 min
- د وطن یاد , Afghanistan in Diasporic Literature15 min
- + 2 more
- د پښتو ژبنۍ کورنۍ , The Indo-Iranian Family16 min
- ارغیز بڼه , Ergativity in Pashto C217 min
- صوتپوهنه , The Sounds of Pashto: Advanced Phonology16 min
- نومي سیستم , Gender and declension in Pashto15 min
- لهجه توپیر , Dialects and Regional Variation in Pashto14 min
- + 2 more
- رسمي پښتو , Formal Pashto for Official Speech16 min
- ادبي پښتو , Inverted syntax and poetic register15 min
- غزل لیکل , Ghazal-Writing Workshop17 min
- لنډه کیسه , The Pashto short story15 min
- خطابت , Pashtun political rhetoric and discourse14 min
- + 2 more
- Pashtun Proverbs13 min
- Advanced Pashto Grammar13 min
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A curriculum designed to get you speaking Pashto in the situations that actually matter to you.
Start for free- 01Conversational Pashto, Kandahar and Peshawar
- 02Pashto Arabic script: specific characters (ښ, ږ, ټ, ډ, ړ, ڼ)
- 03Southern Pashto (Kandahari) vs Northern Pashto (Peshawari)
- 04The Pashtun code of honor: Pashtunwali (hospitality, asylum, revenge)
- 05Pashto for humanitarian workers and NGOs in Afghanistan
- 06Pashto for the Afghan diaspora in Europe and North America
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- A complete learning platform: learn to build sentences, listen to audio recorded by native speakers, practise with exercises.
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- A complete learning platform: learn to build sentences, listen to audio recorded by native speakers, practise with exercises.
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