Learners Who Want to Read Literature
Novels, poetry and classics in the original. We read slowly enough to enjoy them and closely enough to understand them.
Read Books, Articles, and Scripture with Confidence
A guided 1-on-1 Pashto reading course for learners who want depth — literature, professional texts, or faith-based reading. Online for students in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and the Gulf.
- 30 min
- 1-on-1 sessions
- Flexible
- Pacing you control
- Week 1
- Read with understanding
Who This Course Is For
Professionals Reading Documents & Reports
Contracts, reports and formal emails. Learn the formal register and read work documents accurately, without a dictionary open.
Faith-Based Readers Exploring Scripture
Read scripture and classical religious texts in the language they were written in, with guidance on meaning and context.
What You’ll Learn
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Guided reading sessions at your pace
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Vocabulary building in context
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Comprehension and inference practice
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Literary and formal register
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Scripture and classical text reading (optional track)
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Annotation and note-taking method
Sample Reading Session
One short passage, read closely together. This example is a famous couplet by the Pashto poet Rahman Baba.
ګل دې کره
چې ګلزار دې شي ګرد چاپېره
ازغی مه کره،
په پښو کې به دې خار شي
Gul de kra, che gulzār de shi gərd chāpera.
Azghay ma kra, pə pṣ̌o ke ba de khār shi.
Plant flowers, so all around you becomes a garden. Don’t plant thorns; they will prick your own feet.
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Note 1
A command that gives advice
Gul de kra, “plant a flower”. Pashto poetry often speaks directly to you, using the simple command form of the verb.
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Note 2
Che means “so that”
Che joins the reason to the command: plant flowers so that everything around you blooms. It’s one of the sentence models you’ll use every day.
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Note 3
Ba points to the future
Ba … shi means “will become”. Spot ba and you know the line is talking about what will happen.
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Vocabulary
ګلزار gulzār noun
A flower garden.
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Vocabulary
ازغی azghay noun
A thorn. Its mirror in the poem is gul, a flower.
The Pashto alphabet. You already know more than you think.
Choose the language you speak and watch the 44 letters sort themselves. Tap any letter to see its sound and the way it’s written.
I teach every new letter slowly, with tricks that make it stick.
Learn the rest free
Live lesson preview
Can you read this? Try it, then reveal.
Read the Pashto script aloud, then check the sound and meaning, and hear me read it.
How It Works
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Book a Free Trial
We read a short passage together so I can see your level and what slows you down.
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Choose Your Text
A novel, a report, a book of scripture. You choose what we read, and I build the sessions around it.
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Read with Understanding in Week One
From your first week, you finish passages knowing what they mean, not just what the words are.
One course. One clear price.
One monthly plan with everything included. Your first lesson is a free trial.
Pashto Reading Course
Monthly package$140per month
2 lessons a week · 30 minutes each · No payment until you’re satisfied
- 30-minute 1-on-1 sessions
- 2 lessons a week, at flexible times
- Free WhatsApp help and homework
- Annotated notes on every text we read
Can’t commit to two lessons a week?
Take one 60-minute lesson a week instead, for the same $140 a month. It covers assessment, practice, and a new lesson.
Custom courses on demand
Need something specific? I’ll design a course around your goals, from foundation to very advanced.
Two 30-minute lessons a week works out at about $17.50 a lesson.
Patience first. Then everything else.
Ask me to repeat as many times as you like.I’d love you to.
Make mistakes, even the same one twice.Mistakes are blessings in disguise.
I don’t force one method on you.I adapt, and keep exploring what works best for you.
No confusing terminology.Simple words you can understand, use, and remember.
From your very first word to very advanced Pashto.
Every age, every background,from anywhere in the world.
Your privacy is never compromised.
I’m open to feedback.When I’m wrong, I’m happy to correct myself.
Also included
- Illustrated vocabulary logswith guidance on how to use them
- Every sentence-structure modelthe patterns that let you build any sentence
- Lesson recordingsreplay any lesson whenever you need it
- Recorded lessonsavailable if you can’t join live
About the Reading course.
Yes. We start from the letters and sounds, then move to words, sentences and short passages at your pace.
Whatever you want to read: poetry such as Rahman Baba, stories, news articles, professional documents, or scripture on the optional faith track.
In context, from the texts you read. You also get illustrated vocabulary logs with guidance on how to use each word.
No. English is enough. If you already read Urdu or Arabic, you’ll recognise much of the script and move even faster.
Yes. The Reading course has flexible pacing. We only move on once a passage is truly understood.
Reading is not a chore. It’s a doorway.
- First lesson free
- No payment until you’re satisfied
- Zoom, Google Meet or Teams
