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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Wednesday, November 21, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/11/2001112101u.htm

Colleges Struggle to Offer Courses in Pashto, Language of Afghans and Others
By MICHAEL ARNONE

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 than 20 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pashto is also the primary language of the Taliban.....

 



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