Bristol English Pashto

Bristol English Pashto is designed for people who speak Pashto and want to learn English.

This app helps you to learn English from the beginning.

You will learn to read easy English words and match these words to the corresponding Pashto words. You will hear the sound of the English words and you will also learn how to spell and write the English words.

The app is free and there are no ads.

You can use the app offline; you will not need an internet connection after the app is installed.

The app is small and does not use a lot of memory space on your phone.

Using the app is fun, you learn by playing games and the points you win are displayed.

There are two types of games.

First matching games;

You match English letters to the closest Pashto letter.

Next, you match short English words to the Pashto words.

The vocabulary has been chosen so that all the letters of the alphabet are gradually introduced.

This game helps you with listening, understanding and reading English.

An animation shows you how to write the new words, for each new word that contains a new letter of the alphabet.

This helps with handwriting, showing you how to form the letters correctly and also the correct position of each letter on the line.

Secondly there are spelling games;

In the spelling games, you will have a choice of six letters to spell the English word.

You will hear the names of each English letter so that you learn the names of all the letters in the alphabet.

To listen to the English word you need to spell, you can click on the microphone and hear the word spoken.

This game helps you with listening, understanding and spelling English.

People who speak Pashto often find the sounds of English short vowels (a, e, i, o, u) difficult to hear. To make spelling easier, the spelling games provide the correct vowels in the early games.

There are seventy games to play.

You can play a game as many times as you need to make sure you can read, understand each word and know how to write and spell the new words. It is good to repeat each word out loud, to practice speaking English.

Regular practice is best; ten minutes in the morning, ten minutes in the afternoon is the perfect way to benefit from the app.

You can also use the menu to go back to earlier games to revise.

Additional information about the design of the app;

The app helps you to learn UK English (not USA English).

To use this app there is no need to sign in, or set up an account. No data is collected.

This app is very useful for self-study of the English language and also good for students in education.

The words chosen are designed to make learning English as easy as possible.

To begin, the words are three letter phonetic words; CVCs (Consonant Vowel Consonant).

Next, four and five letter phonetic words are introduced, to help learners become familiar with the regular sounds of the English alphabet.

Lastly, the words are commonly used nouns in the English language.

This app systematically revises the words learnt in earlier games and the revision words are randomly chosen from the earlier games so that each time the game is played the revision words will be different.

There is a summary page of the alphabet, accessed from the menu, showing the order of the alphabet, how to form each letter and speaks the names of each letter.

The early focus on spelling helps learners distinguish each individual letters in a word, so that they can distinguish similarly spelled words and be able read phonetic names.

The app will also be useful for those who are good readers of English but are unable to spell accurately.

To finish, this free app is a very useful asset for the beginner learner in English language.