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  <body>Some questions: 
Has anyone here learned Farsi as a second language? If you have, how long has it taken you to become proficient in it to be well understood and to understand a native Farsi speaker? Once you've learned Farsi how has communicating in Dari or Pashto been? Is someone with no experience in Dari or Pashto but with a basic grounding in Farsi able to communicate with someone who speaks Dari or Pashto?

Thanks in advance</body>
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