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Beginning Pashto

This Textbook is one of the six components of Beginning Pashto The other components are: All the components of Beginning Pashto are available in microfiche or hard copy through the ERIC Document Reproduction Service.

These materials have been developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics with funding from Grant No. P017A 90055 from the international Research and Studies Program of the U. S. Department of Education. The same office has funded CAL to develop an additional fourteen units. These will be deposited in the ERIC collection under the general title Intermediate Pashto, and will be available in early 1992.

We wish to thank John Ratliff and Kenneth Frook of Diplomatic Language Services, Inc. in Arlington. Virginia, for their kindness in allowing the materials to be field-tested there. The comments of the Pashto teachers, Mr. Anwar Ayazi and Mr. Akbar Ayazi, have been of invaluable assistance to us. We are also grateful for the careful proofreading of the materials on the part of Mr. Mohammad T. Achagzai.

We owe our secretary, Mrs Zeba Khadem, special (Afghan, not American) thanks for her sweet temper in the face of long hours, multiple drafts, corrections of corrections of corrections, and computer programs that did not want to function from right to left. We also thank her for the insights she has provided into the life and concerns of Afghan women, which we feel have given the materials unusual depth.

Since the completion of Beginning Pashto in 1959, CAL has continued, with grants from the Department of Education, to complete Intermediate Pashto (1991) and the Pashto Reader (1992). An additional component to the materials, Pashto Conversation, has been completed (1993), along with revisions of the textbooks and workbooks of Beginning and Intermediate Pashto, and a final Pashto-English Glossary to accompany all the materials. All the Pashto materials have been deposited in the ERIC system, and are available.

We are indebted to Mr. Anwar Ayazi for his proofreading and comments on the revised materials.