Driven by the war in Afghanistan, instructors at four colleges are scrambling to offer traditional and distance-education courses in Pashto, a language virtually untaught in America but spoken by more ...

Dr Abdullah Jan Abid is one of the eminent Pashto researchers and critics of the last two decades. Being head of the department of Pakistani languages in Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, he ...

One in three older Australians were born overseas – the majority of whom originally from a non-English speaking country. Meanwhile, the number of school leavers graduating with a second language is ...

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Language barriers can make it difficult for units deployed to Afghanistan, but one unit is fighting against that barrier by using the local language and achieving ...