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Multilingual Books December Newsletter

Thanks for reading the Multilingual Books newsletter, your source for foreign language news, information, and product information and specials from Multilingual Books. This is also available as a web page at our website, www.multilingualbooks.com. In this issue: Featured Article - Languages of Afghanistan - Dari. Language News - Site of the Month: Afghanpedia. Ask The Expert - New! Ask a question of our language expert and win a gift certificate! Product News - FSI French Course on CD. Only from Multilingual Books! Also, Harry Potter in 24 languages. Newsletter Specials - Special offers only for our newsletter subscribers! Send to a Friend Please send this along to anyone you think might be interested by clicking the link above. Unsubscribe Information This newsletter is intended as a service to language enthusiasts and customers of Multilingual Books. You have received this because our records indicate you have ordered products from us or have asked to join our mailing list. If this message was unwanted, we apologize and will be happy to remove your address from our list. If you would like to unsubscribe for any reason, you can unsubscribe by web form, or by sending an e-mail request. If you were forwarded this newsletter and would like to subscribe, simply let us know by e-mail to info@multilingualbooks.com. Thank you.		Featured This Issue
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Featured Article

Languages of Afghanistan - Dari

Last month we looked at Pushto, the major language of Afghanistan. This month we will look at Dari, the other official language in Afghanistan.

Dari is considered along with Pashto as the two official languages of Afghanistan. It is a member of the indo-Iranian language of families. In fact, Dari is the Afghan dialect of Farsi (Persian). It is written in a modified Arabic alphabet, and it has many Arabic and Persian loanwords. The syntax of Dari does not differ greatly from Farsi, but the stress accent is less prominent in Dari than in Farsi. To mark attribution, Dari uses the suffix -ra. The vowel system of Dari differs from that of Farsi, and Dari also has additional consonants.

About one-third of the population of Afghanistan, about 5,000,000 people (Tadzhik, Uzbak, Turkman, Hazarah, some Pashtoon), speak Dari. It is the primary language of the Tadzhik, Hazara, and Chahar Aimak peoples. Dari, rather than Pashto, serves as the means of communication between speakers of different languages in Afghanistan

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Language News

Site of the Month
Afghanpedia - Online Encyclopedia of Afghanistan
https://www.sabawoon.com/afghanpedia/default.shtm
Afghanpedia is a brand new resource of Sabawoon.com, the Afghanistan news portal. This is a free web based service providing quality information from recent research papers, articles, general references, and more. If, like me, you have been researching all the info you can get on Afghanistan, this site makes a great addition. Afghanpedia details the language, resources, government, culture, climate, agriculture, and economics of Afghanistan. But more importantly, it details the region's 3700 year history. This history spans from the Achaemenian ruler Cyrus II the Great through the Soviet invasion of the early 80's and finally up to the current conflict.

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Do you have a question to ask Rodman Reynolds, our resident linguist? If we choose your question, we will print the answer in our next newsletter and you will receive a $25 gift certificate good towards any purchase from multilingualbooks.com.
Ask The Expert by e-mail at: asktheexpert@translation.net

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Product News

Harry Potter In 24 Languages! Multilingual Books now offers the popular Harry Potter books in 24 languages! A perfect gift for any fan of the series that might not speak English, or might enjoy the stories more in their native language. Please visit our Harry Potter page for more information.

FSI French Course on CD - Only from Multilingual Books! Multilingual Books is proud to announce the publication of the popular Foreign Service Institute French course on audio CD. Based on the popular Foreign Service Institute course that has been successfully used by thousands of students to learn conversational French, the Multilingual Books French Course on audio CD is a thorough and structured method for beginners and experienced speakers who need a refresher course. This is "the course that works" and is based on content originally created by the Foreign Service Institute to teach diplomats and serious language learners the skills necessary to converse in French quickly and efficiently. The full course, available in 4 volumes, features over 50 hours of audio listening practice and each volume includes a textbook that details the script of the audio containing and contains many useful drills and supplemental exercises. This CD version is currently available only from Multilingual Books. Multilingual Books FSI French 1 Course Special! Buy this course before Jan. 10th and use promo code MF1220 to save $50! For ordering and more information, please visit our French page.

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December Newsletter Specials

FSI French Course on CD - Only from Multilingual Books! For a limited time, receive $50 off on our new FSI French course on CD. This is the proven Foreign Service Institute course, formerly available only on cassette. Use promo code MF1220 when ordering to receive your special. For ordering and more information, please visit our French page.

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