Military Adds Language Boot Camp

Written by Pat's Papers | Tuesday, 26 April 2011 10:32 AM

Drop and give me ten vocabulary words. The Raleigh News and Observer says the US military is making a push to train troops in Dari, the most common language spoken in Afghanistan, a sign, perhaps, that military officials expect to be in the region longer than the summer withdrawal date floated by the Obama administration. Soldiers are also learning Urdu and Pashtu, other common languages spoken in the region, in the hopes that it will improve their ability to interact on the ground. Explains a medic: “Unless you could see the injury, sometimes there just wasn’t anything you could do without an interpreter. Now, I could ask them, ‘Do you need help?’ I could actually have a conversation.”

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