Everyday Pashto
Learn to speak and understand Pashto through practical conversations, essential grammar patterns, and rich cultural etiquette. Move from your first tea-time greeting to navigating markets and reading signs with confidence.
Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Pashto. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
23 levels across 4 sections, about 46 minutes end to end, roughly 9 days at five minutes a day. It moves through First Words and Warm Welcomes; Getting Around and Doing Business; How Pashto Sentences Work; and Sounds, Dialects, and the Script. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Everyday Pashto
- A proper Pashto greeting is an extended ritual involving several rhythmic exchanges asking about well-being, family, and fatigue
- Moving directly to business after a single word can come across as abrupt or rude in Pashtun culture
- 'Sanga ye?' directly asks 'How are you?'
- 'Kha yam' means 'I am good' or 'I am fine', often paired with gratitude
- 'Da Allah paman' is a departing farewell rather than a reply to a health check
- Attaching '-jan' to a first name softens the tone to express warmth, love, or closeness
- 'Sahib' follows titles or names to confer formal distance, prestige, and deference
- Family-style honorifics like 'khor' (sister) or 'lala' (brother) convey respectful community solidarity
- 'Da Allah paman' translates to 'in God's protection' and serves as the standard farewell when parting ways
- 'Jor ye' and 'Sanga ye' are greetings used upon arrival to ask if someone is healthy and well
- 'Manana' simply means 'thank you'
- 'Staso noom tsa day?' translates to 'What is your name?' in formal or polite Pashto
- 'Tsa' means 'what' in question constructions
- To introduce yourself, use the matching pattern 'Zma noom... day' (My name is...)
- 'Za da [place] yam' is the standard Pashto frame meaning 'I am from [place]'
- 'Za' means 'I', 'da' marks origin ('from' or 'of'), and 'yam' is the first-person present verb 'am'
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Everyday Pashto the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you say a quick 'Salam' and jump straight to business, how might that feel to a Pashto speaker?
Get it right to open this lesson and 22 more in the app.
Where Everyday Pashto takes you
- 1
First Words and Warm Welcomes
- The Pashto Greeting Ritual
- Introducing Yourself and Making Friends
- 2
Getting Around and Doing Business
- Asking for Directions and Needs
- Numbers, Time, and the Bazaar
- 3
How Pashto Sentences Work
- Building Core Sentences
- Describing Everyday Actions
- 4
Sounds, Dialects, and the Script
- Sound Systems and Dialect Differences
- Deciphering the Pashto Alphabet
4 sections · 8 units · 23 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Everyday Pashto is taught in the Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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