 Okay, I'm called from Austria, from Afghanistan. Okay, and what's your name? If you can give us your name. Yeah, my name is Masoud. Great, thank you for calling Masoud. Do you have any questions for us in regards to learning English or practicing your English? From learning to practice in English. Question, question, question. Okay, I have one question. Yes? How can I learn easy English? That's a million dollar question. Easy. It's not easy. No, I know it's not easy. Language is not easy, but what's the way that I learn easy? Well, it helps that you are practicing like this right now. The more you practice with people, the better you will get. Yeah, it's better if I talk with people. My Austrian language is also not English, but I learn English in Afghanistan. I think my English is not better if I make a mistake. I'm sorry, but... You're doing a very good job and you're speaking very well. Yes, you are. Thank you very much, but I think my speaking is not good. It's just I solved my problem. Well, practicing with individuals who speak English is always helpful. I know speaking and reading and writing is completely different, but when I was learning English as a child, it really helped me to read a lot. I read a lot of books, simple books, children's books. It didn't have to be anything big or very, you know, had a lot of words. It was simple children's books I would read all the time, and it really helped me with my English. And I know with others it has helped them a lot as well. Yeah, reading helps a lot with vocabulary. Yeah, really. And then you can try it out in conversation. Yeah, thank you very much. My brother is also in America if I talk with my brother. He said to me, talk in English. I want to test your English. Well, that's perfect. Yeah, if I talk with my brother, he said your English is like not perfect, not very good, just normal. You can solve your problem. I see you live in America, I live in Austria. Definitely take the opportunity to practice with him all the time as much as you can. Even if you think it's not perfect, just speaking helps a lot. Yeah, thank you very much. And also we have, I'll send you the link in the inbox, we have our learning English department here at Voice of America who provide a lot of good materials to practice. Absolutely. So you can go on that website and learn more and get more materials. We're just talking to people about how they learn English and how they practice English. Well, we live in London now, we are going to call it, our English is quite good. How long have you guys been living in London? We've been here for four years, I think. Four years, okay. And what do you guys study? Well, I'm studying science and he studies English. Okay. And what are you hoping to do with that, with science? What do you want to do with that in the future? Well, we have a plan to study biomedical science, you know biomedical science. So you said you're studying science and so you already know English quite well. Is that right? Yeah, my English is quite well. Yeah. And your friend? You said he's studying English? Not just study IT course, but just I've finished improving my English now, so next year I'm going to study IT course. Okay, great. And how do you practice English? Do you practice English with your friend or with people you eat? Because I went to school, so I've been in school for one year, so after that they put me in college because I finished my school year 11. So now I'm going to school college for the moment, so I finished my entry three. Great. And now I'm going to college, then secondly you have to do level one IT course, so actually my level one IT course, I'm going to be there for two years now. Oh, that's great. Were you studying any English in Afghanistan at all? Never. Never? Yeah, but he did. You did? I did, but not a lot. I just, you know, just finished and did one subject English in old school. There's maybe like, there's 12 subjects, one subject English. That's not good enough to learn English. How do you study your English? Where did you learn your English? I just learned my English in school and also in Azdash, English Language Institute. Great. How, when did you start learning it? How many years have you been studying? If you're asking the real question, so I started my English and Taliban regime when I was in third class of the school, so I was in fact at Providence, I was learning there. So after that, I was learning something in school and also in Azdash Institute. And how do you practice your English? I don't have any practice now, just I'm working with foreign people, so this is the cause that my English is going to be perceived and I'm promoting my English by speaking with them and they are asking questions for me and I'm responding to them. This is why sometimes I'm not good at English. My name is Alam Khan. I'm basically from Afghanistan, from the Resli province, but right now I'm living in the United States since last six months. So I would like to say a word of hello to both of you, especially to your dear guest. Hi, Maria. Hi. Thanks for calling. Thank you. Nice to meet you. You too. Nice to meet you. And what state are you calling us from? I'm living in Virginia, so I'm calling you from Virginia. Oh wow, you're really close to us right here. Yes, about 20 miles. That's right. Well, what are you doing now? I don't have any job here, but today I called you to ask some questions from Miss Maria because I'm trying to learn it and I'm trying to improve my English. My English is so weak. So I didn't attend any classes in my country and not here. I think I'm not allowed to attend any class, but in my country I don't attend any class here. I'm trying to learn some things from internet, especially to follow some websites. So that is why I called you today to ask you, is it possible to give me some website address to improve my English, to study more, to know about movies, public speech and something else like that? There's so much, there's so much, but VOA has a lot of material if you've looked on their website. And also there's another one that's called AmericanEnglish.state.gov. There's so many resources. Thank you for calling us on Talk to us of Afghanistan with Nargis and Maria. Hi. Good. And what part of Afghanistan are you calling us from? From Kabul. From Kabul. Capital of Afghanistan. Great. And do you have any questions for us that we may help answer you today? No, I don't have any questions, but I want to tell you I'm very happy to contact you. This is the only achievement for me to call it to yours. Well, thank you for calling us. And if I may ask, what do you do in Afghanistan? Do you go to school or do you go to work? Yes, I work with a private organization here in Afghanistan and Lugar Province for the post of monitoring and monitoring and evaluation officer in Lugar and Vardak provinces. I see you're speaking English pretty well. How do you practice? But I'm good in the English talking, but sometimes I have some problem in the talking. Oh, no, while you're speaking, you're doing a very good job. You're doing very well. How do you practice your English? Like how did you learn English and how do you, on a daily basis, practice it? I don't study any course of English, but the only I learned from my parents in the office. Wow, that's great. So tell us how you practice your English. Yes, I practice my English with a teacher called Paul. He is living in America and I study my English and I practice my English via internet. That's great. That's a great source to use and I know a lot of people don't know about it, but there's a lot of things you can do through the internet to practice and learn English. Yes, the website is Learn Real in American English and Learn Real English. This is two websites that every day I practice my English. That's great. We have these websites. So are you only learning English or in Austria are you speaking? Yes, Austria, but unfortunately we haven't had a Dutch course. In this case, I did not learn in a Dutch course in a Dutch up to now, but I can speak Dutch, but not too much later.