{"id":259,"date":"2017-04-19T11:33:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T07:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/?p=259"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T07:03:23","slug":"get-language-input-with-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/2017\/04\/19\/get-language-input-with-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Get language input with social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you waste too much time on Facebook. Why not redeem some of that time by using it to learn language? I&#8217;ve recently \u201cfollowed\u201d (the technical Facebook term) two Facebook web pages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfghanLOL\/\">AfghanLOL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/khaama.org\/\">Khaama Press<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What that means it that I get a steady stream of Afghan jokes and news stories in my Facebook news feed. The jokes provide fun language practice and a little cultural input. (They are written in\u00a0Persian script, but with colloquial pronunications, so that is stretching.) The news stories come up in English, Dari, and Pashtu, so I can either struggle through the Dari, or at least understand the content by reading the English. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/NewsTexts\">Here&#8217;s a resource<\/a> for learning to read news stories, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are lots of other good Facebook pages as well; these are just two that I stumbled upon.\u00a0Follow a few for yourself, and you&#8217;ll be sure to get fresh language input, even if you&#8217;re just wasting time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you waste too much time on Facebook. Why not redeem some of that time by using it to learn language? I&#8217;ve recently \u201cfollowed\u201d (the technical Facebook term) two Facebook web pages. AfghanLOL Khaama Press What that means it that I get a steady stream of Afghan jokes and news stories in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}