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I’m pretty sure this person was learning Pashto or Dari. The materials were mostly (all?) developed in-house. If they were learning Dari, they would have been
by csa 5y ago
I’m pretty sure this person was learning Pashto or Dari.
The materials were mostly (all?) developed in-house.
If they were learning Dari, they would have been better off just using externally-produced Farsi textbooks since they have a more robust history of development.
The specific recommended materials for an introduction to a language depend on what your goals are for learning the language.
- least 5y agoYeah, the Dari course was notoriously bad quality and rife with controversy with some of the highest failure rates in the entire Presidio at the time. Not sure if anything's changed at this point?
- csa 5y agoThings improved slightly, then the program got reduced and then cut due to less demand. Somewhere in there, they got creative and had folks who passed Farsi take a 3-month Dari course to bridge the gap between Farsi and Dari, and those folks had a lot of success.