He spoke Pashto, which he learned during his C.I.A. training.
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Now Wang spoke Russian, Uzbek, Manchu, Pashto, Hindi and Urdu.
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She attended American schools, but spoke Farsi and Pashto at home.
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An older man is arguing with the shoe boy in Pashto.
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She carried a pen and a workbook for the Pashto language.
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She sings in both Dari and Pashto, the country's two main languages.
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Among its rank and file are speakers of Arabic, Dari, Pashto and Urdu.
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The insurgents have Telegram channels in Arabic, Dari, English, Pashto, Turkish, and Urdu.
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Ever had the urge to translate a website written in Corsican, Pashto or Luxembourgish?
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Investigators also found notes in Pashto, showing the teenager may have been self-radicalized.
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But he knew only Pashto, one of the two main languages in the country.
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He said the languages spoken - Pashto, and Bulgarian and Serbian dialects - posed additional difficulties.
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Overby also learned to speak Pashto, the major language of the Afghan-Pakistan border area.
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His name means "smart" and "talented" in both of Afghanistan's official languages, Pashto and Dari.
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A linguist fluent in Pashto, Farsi and Dari, she worked as a translator and language analyst.
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They also found notes in Pashto, written in Arabic and Latin characters in the assailants' room.
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Its 13 employees, including three women presenters, broadcast in Afghanistan's two main languages - Dari and Pashto.
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The deadliest year was 103, when three horses – Pashto, Do Rightly and Griffins Bar – were killed.
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It's also establishing a call center in Pakistan that operates in the Urdu and Pashto languages.
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Zainab spoke only Pashto when she arrived two years ago, and not much of that either.
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They now communicate on messaging apps WhatsApp, Viber and Telegram in English, Pashto, Dari, Arabic and Urdu.
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He was a digital disc jockey, picking out Pashto pop songs to play on his radio show.
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The movie will be broadcast in five languages, Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Urdu and Pashto, but not in English.
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Shamshad TV is Afghanistan's major Pashto-language station, broadcasting over the air and by satellite throughout the country.
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"In Pashto, we have a proverb that you cannot hold two watermelons in one hand," Hikmat told me.
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It has built up its own intelligence-gathering department by hiring native speakers of Dari, Urdu, Pashto and Arabic.
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An unconfirmed number of assailants entered the the Shamshad TV station, a Pashto language station, around 10:30 a.m.
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She saw the detainee library replete with hundreds of DVDs and the Harry Potter series in Arabic and Pashto.
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Then the new publishers began translating Western books from English into Dari and Pashto, the country's two main languages.
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Reuters recorded the IUVM network operating in English, French, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Russian, Hindi, Azerbaijani, Turkish and Spanish.
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"Anyone who speaks Pashto is a good man," Dostum said at a press conference in the northern province of Faryab.
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Jirga is a Pashto word for council, and refers to a local method of resolving disputes among tribes and communities.
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In a video recorded during the arrest, the student can be heard defending his actions in Pashto, a regional language.
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In Pakistan, for instance, Free Basics is only available in English and Urdu, leaving out Punjabi, Pashto, and other major languages.
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The Arabic of the others was colored by Pashto or by Urdu or by languages of which she had no knowledge.
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But Aksos managed to print a Pashto version first, without rights to it, selling 1,000 copies in three days, he said.
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The only demo currently available is in Arabic, but Pashto, Farsi and Urdu will be added next, as well as other languages.
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The role players must know how to speak Pashto or Dari, languages spoken in Afghanistan, and have a "secret" level security clearance.
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Douglas Laux, a case officer from Indiana, had studied Pashto, the language spoken in southern Afghanistan, before deploying to Kandahar, in 3573.
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ST.-OMER, France — The players erupted in joy, dancing and shouting in Pashto, celebrating their second victory in a regional cricket tournament.
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At home, in the evenings, Hikmat's father listened to the BBC's Pashto service while taking notes on world events in a diary.
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He mixes Farsi and English and Pashto without the expectation that any one reader (except another Marwand) will understand all of it.
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"If (Afghans) think of us like brothers I trust in God that all the problems will be solved," Baradar said, speaking in Pashto.
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Indicating the wide diversity among the camp's population, Law's remarks and the letters were simultaneously translated into Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish and Pashto languages.
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Along with Pashto, the language of the Pashtuns, Dari is named in the constitution as one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
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Shamshad TV, a leading Pashto-language outlet, shares a compound with the Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation museum, or OMAR museum.
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Huge lettering hangs from the scaffolds, in Dari and Pashto, reading, "We Can Do It." Significantly, there is no such sign in English.
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In addition to Pashto, English and his native Mandarin, Wang is also proficient in Russian and Turkish and was learning Persian in Iran.
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One of the few men in the atelier is a human Rosetta stone, translating instructions into Farsi and Dari; Pashto, Urdu and Hindi.
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"If he speaks Pashto and is from Logar, he is even a better person," he added, referring to Ghani's home province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Besides the hand-drawn or painted flag, police found notes in Pashto written in Arabic and Latin characters in the assailants' room, Herrmann said.
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A police search of his home found a hand-written report in Pashto, a language spoken on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.
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A relative upstart, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or PTI, led by Imran Khan, does well in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a largely Pashto-speaking province.
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Today's update adds 13 languages to Google's stable: Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto and Xhosa.
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"They didn't do their job," his father said in one of the interviews with The Times, which were conducted in his native language, Pashto.
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They called their effort the School of Leadership Afghanistan and referred to it by the acronym SOLA, which is a Pashto word for peace.
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He was on his way to Afghanistan to work as a translator for the International Committee of the Red Cross and perfect his Pashto.
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Wafa put on a heavily Auto-Tuned Pashto ballad and twirled his finger in the air to the chugging beat, absorbed in the music.
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The men cursed him in Pashto, but when they dragged him outside he saw, to his relief, that there were American soldiers with them.
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The final story, a sacred family tale about the death of a beloved uncle, a story foreshadowed throughout, is written entirely in Pashto script.
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The app's content, written in the Pashto language, included statements and videos from the Taliban, which confirmed to Bloomberg it was behind the app's creation.
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Some speak critical languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Somali and Pashto, which remain vital to our ability to operate effectively around the world.
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RFE/RL says its Pashto language broadcast, known as Radio Mashaal, was a public service to counter extremist narrative in Pakistan's mountainous regions bordering Afghanistan.
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Investigators found a hand-drawn ISIS flag in his room, as well as notes written in Pashto that suggest he may have been self-radicalized.
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It requires an estimated six hundred hours of instruction, versus approximately eleven hundred for Pashto or Xhosa and twenty-two hundred for Arabic or Mandarin.
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"When they see Zari they are looking so happy," says 18-year-old Sima Sultani, the puppeteer who voices the character in the Pashto language, Dari.
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The Pashto-language app, called Alemarah, was "part of our advanced technological efforts to make more global audience," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told Bloomberg upon its release.
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Dawar told Voice of America's (VOA) Pashto language radio service, Deewa, that about 30 people were wounded in the incident, including himself, and some were seriously injured.
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Winner was a linguist while in the US Air Force from 2010 to 2016 and speaks Farsi, Dari and Pashto, her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, has said.
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WhatsApp chatrooms in Dari and Pashto include hundreds of phone numbers from Iran, Pakistan, and the Persian Gulf, from which the Taliban receives most of its donations.
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"Zeerak, which means 'smart' and 'talented' in both Dari and Pashto, will be featured in segments that tackle topics including tolerance, respect, and gender equity," it reads.
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Mr. Fisher of Save a Child's Heart worked to find a translator to help the father, who speaks Urdu and Pashto, communicate with the Hebrew-speaking staff.
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Yet this same region has significant cities like Miran Shah, Sadda and Parachinar, where Pashto literary societies flourish and which produce fabric and shoes coveted across Pakistan.
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In the 2 minute, 20 second clip, the young man, speaking in Pashto, waves a knife at the camera and says: "I am a soldier of the caliphate".
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Yousafzai spoke of the importance of education and about the efforts of her charitable foundation to help girls, often switching between English and the Pashto and Urdu languages.
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When it comes to his singing talents, Maftoon has been wooing the audience with his renditions of romantic folk songs, which are sung in both Dari and Pashto.
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" First, he said, participants have to have unique, in-demand skills, such as fluency in Pashto, that the Pentagon has deemed "critical" and "vital to the national interest.
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Read more: U.S. troops will face the deadliest Taliban yet The station, which broadcasts news and current affairs in the Pashto language, is now back on the air.
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At Shamshad TV, a Pashto language channel, a security guard was killed and several journalists wounded, including two who were hospitalized, according to the news manager, Abid Ihas.
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Sergeant Bergdahl's father, in particular, was criticized for growing a beard, learning to speak Pashto and studying the Quran in hopes of finding a way to free his child.
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The Taliban said on their Pashto-language website that they had carried out the suicide bombing on "Department 10", an NDS unit responsible for protecting government ministers and VIPs.
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Ahmad Shah, who worked for the BBC's Pashto language service as well as for Reuters, was killed by unidentified gunmen while he was on his way home last April.
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After a sporadic gun battle lasting about two hours, Afghan special forces suppressed the attack on Shamshad TV, a private Pashto-language broadcaster based close to the national stadium.
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In his hospital bed, Bashir, who lost his left leg below the knee, had an exercise book in which he regularly practiced his writing in Pashto, his favorite subject.
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He struggled to understand the SIV application in English, and the State Department does not offer the forms or instructions in the Afghan national languages of Dari or Pashto.
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In her book, Yousafzai acknowledges that while she feels grateful the United Kingdom welcomed her family, she also misses her friends, Pakistani tea, and hearing Pashto spoken in the streets.
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His academic formality drains away quickly once he gets going, though, and he converses comfortably in English, in addition to the main languages of Afghanistan — Dari and Pashto — and Urdu.
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One example was the military's regular practice of broadcasting on Pashto-language radio stations the names of Taliban fighters they were hunting, offering money for information about their possible whereabouts.
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During that time, both girls became fans of the Indian television drama "Madhubala," which they watched together, taking turns with the language — it was dubbed in both Pashto and Dari.
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He put on the radio to sing along to a song in Pashto — Afghanistan's national language — an act which would have been unthinkable in the days ISIS patrolled the roads.
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Many Persian speakers say the name Dari has been imposed historically by the traditionally dominant Pashto ethnic group as an implicit denial of Afghanistan's place in the wider Persian-speaking world.
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The Pashto-language app, called Alemarah, contained official statements, videos, and other content from the Islamist group, which has been waging war in Afghanistan since being ousted from power in 2001.
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The next thing he pulled out of the accordion folder and slid across the table was a document too thick for staples, in Dari or Pashto, I had no idea which.
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" It also released a video, showing a young man brandishing a knife and saying in Pashto, one of the primary languages in Afghanistan, "I will do a martyrdom operation in Germany today.
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I contacted the Counternarcotics, Defense, and Interior Ministries and the National Security Council, but they ignored repeated requests for comment in Dari and Pashto, sent by email and over Facebook and Viber.
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Dr. Nakamura, who also learned to speak the local language, Pashto, initially tried to improve the situation by digging hundreds of wells for clean water, but soon realized that wasn't the answer.
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The Chinese-born U.S. citizen previously worked as a Pashto translator for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan and spent time in Uzbekistan while a student at Harvard University.
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The goal is to break down language barriers, ultimately connecting refugees to doctors, aid workers, legal help, and other crucial services in Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto as they resettle in a new country.
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"I'm unstoppable," Sultana laughs, and it's true: She taught herself English from occasional newspapers or magazines that her brothers brought home, in conjunction with a Pashto-English dictionary that she pretty much inhaled.
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The new languages, which are now generally available, are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dari, Estonian, Canadian French, Georgian, Hausa, Latvian, Pashto, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog and Tamil.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The 183-year-old boy squatted on his haunches on the floor of the prison and, unbidden, began to chant the verses of a Pashto poem in a high, beautiful voice.
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New languages supported in the update include: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Estonian, Greek, Hindi, Igbo, Javanese, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Samoan, Sesotho, Slovenian, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu.
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Mina Mangal, who had worked as a television presenter for popular Pashto-language channels before entering politics, was gunned down in broad daylight Saturday morning in southeast Kabul, according to ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi.
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Herrmann told Reuters that the Pashto text was subject to interpretation, and stressed that the attack was no reason to cast suspicion on other refugees or for Germans to stop living their lives normally.
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Motherboard received no reply after submitting requests for comment in Dari, English, and Pashto to two email addresses and three phone numbers that the Taliban press service had directed donors to contact in previous announcements.
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Sixteen languages are currently supported (plus dialect variations), with a focus on those spoken by major refugee populations: English, Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Bengali, Turkish, Somali, German, Portuguese, Kurdish and Burmese.
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Both Afghan and NATO officials have frequently spoken of the difficulties faced by the Afghan National Army, a largely Dari-speaking force that relies heavily on recruits from northern Afghanistan, in operating in Pashto-speaking Helmand.
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The Taliban said on their Pashto-language website that they had carried out the suicide bombing on "Department 10," a unit of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security which is responsible for protecting government ministers and VIPs.
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SYDNEY, Australia — For years, the graduating classes of Australia's military training programs studied Dari and Pashto, the languages of distant war-torn lands, eschewing the Bahasa and the Pijin of Asia-Pacific nations close to home.
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At War Strolling the aisles at a Kohl's department store near his home in Rochester, N.Y., Azizullah Sharifi spoke Pashto with his daughter Marwah as they picked through shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops for the summer.
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Bin Laden had fled to the mountains, and the remaining Al Qaeda leaders understood that, as Arabs and North Africans, they could never blend in with the locals, who spoke Dari, Pashto, Balochi, and other regional languages.
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Clerics tend not to read English, or to care much about the opinions of upper-class intellectuals; politicians are largely concerned with the vastly greater numbers of people who read primarily Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, or Balochi.
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It now publishes six magazines in Pashto, Dari, Urdu and Arabic, and posts news reports on 10 websites in five languages, as well as operating smaller websites that offer theological guidance, videos, and war poetry written by fighters.
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Wowing audiences with bright traditional outfits and jewel-encrusted tiaras, and off-stage sporting brown-rimmed Ray Bans, Hashimi's songs in Pashto and Dari have won her thousands of fans, who vote by text message and on Facebook.
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Viewers of the show vote for their favorite acts, and so far Maftoon has done well thanks to a selection of romantic folk songs that he performs in both Dari and Pashto, the two official languages of Afghanistan.
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The new languages added today are Amharic (which is spoken in Ethiopia); Corsican; Frisian (the Netherlands and Germany); Kyrgyz; Hawaiian; Kurdish; Luxembourgish; Samoan; Scots Gaelic; Shona (Zimbabwe); Sindhi (Pakistan and India); Pashto (Afghanistan and Pakistan); and Xhosa (South Africa).
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Known as "Kafiristan", or "land of infidels", before its people were converted to Islam in the 19th century, it has an economy partly based on barter and local languages and dialects unrelated to the main languages of Afghanistan, Pashto and Dari.
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BERLIN, July 19 (Reuters) - Police found a text written partly in Pashto in the room of a young Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany indicating he may have radicalised himself, Bavaria's Interior Minister said on Tuesday.
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"In the meantime a text in Pashto was also found that was partly written in Arabic characters and partly in Latin characters, which indicates that this could be someone who has self-radicalised recently," Joachim Herrmann told a news conference.
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She said the change was intended to link the Facebook page to the BBC Dari radio service, which was launched in 2003 and which, together with the BBC Pashto service, occupies an important place in the crowded local media landscape.
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Realizing that "The Envoy," the 2016 memoir by Mr. Khalilzad, the Afghan-American who was the United States ambassador to both Afghanistan and Iraq, would be a big seller here, Mr. Aazem rushed to acquire the Dari and Pashto rights.
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In a furious mix of Persian and Pashto, he let out a diatribe about how everyone here is wasting their time and that the delivery trucks to France, where the refugees would attempt to smuggle themselves aboard, were lining up on the highway.
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After working at an accounting firm in Hong Kong for a year, Wang chose to move to Afghanistan to become a Pashto translator for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), according to Chinese-language tweets posted by ICRC in 2010.
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In interviews in the Jungle Books Kids Cafe, a shack hung with fabrics and a poster of a London bus, a number of the Jungle's young people sat on donated sofas this week and described their journeys in halting English or Pashto.
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You quickly ascended to the highly selective Marine Special Operations Command, became a scout sniper, free-fall qualified, and a fluent speaker of Pashto, which you used during your deployment in Afghanistan... Being so young and given that much responsibility was just incredible.
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"A Mujahid (freedom fighter) infiltrator of the Islamic Emirate who had enrolled himself in the Kabul government's army attacked American soldiers in Lata Band area of Achin District in Nangarhar province today in the afternoon," said a written statement in Pashto obtained by CNN.
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It is that role that informs a Pashto poem by Abdul Bari Jahani, who is now Afghanistan's minister of information and culture, which reads in part: Helmand, I ask you in the language of the heart: Do you recall the cruelties of your time?
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Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said they found the flag among his belongings when police searched his home, as well as a text that included references to Islam and the "need to resist," according to an initial translation from the Afghan language of Pashto.
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While reporting the story on single mothers (a concept that exists and yet has no word to describe it, neither in Dari nor Pashto), I learned of children living with their mothers inside prisons because they didn't have anyone outside to take care of them.
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The Pashto-language Shamshad TV, whose office was near the blast site, said one of its security guards had been killed and several employees had been hurt in the blast, which sent a plume of black smoke rising over the city and shook buildings.
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But while Afghans are unlikely to be prevented from using services such as medical centers and education facilities set up with European funds in Turkey, the fact they speak Pashto and Dari, rather than Arabic, risks excluding them from projects designed for Syrian refugees, aid workers warn.
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For a while, at the height of the Obama troop surge, some of us wore badges reading "Khabayar" -- Pashto for journalist -- on our flak jackets, hoping that would make a discerning and literate sniper realize we were not a contractor or "other government agent," and shoot elsewhere.
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In Parwan province, to the northwest, Taliban fighters are making steady headway, pushing forward among the largely ethnic Pashto peoples in the Ghorband River valley toward the crucial road connecting the capital to the Panjshir Valley, just about the last large, undisputed pro-government stronghold in eastern Afghanistan.
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He became proficient in Pashto, a language spoken in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, and for a time worked as a translator for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he helped Afghans traumatized by violence and death from the American-led war against the Taliban.
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Afghan reinforcements were also flown in, including a contingent of police special forces and about 200 soldiers from the Afghan Army's most elite unit, the Special Operations Force, which was also known by its Pashto initials, K.K.A., and was formerly attached to the United States military's secretive Joint Special Operations Command.
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So that's why I speak Pashto, I got to be a scout sniper, I got to jump out of planes, all those different things were really just because I was fortunate to be in this community, and why I try to give back to this community now as a veteran.
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Some of the languages have a wider appeal than others — only 57,000 people are estimated to speak Gaelic in Scotland, compared to the 45 million or more in the Pashto-speaking diaspora worldwide — but altogether Google says the new additions make Translate useful to an extra 120 million people, from Asia to Africa, Europe, and Hawaii.
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