Video Resources Online
Learning Tajik
- Tajik Alphabet Song – Learn the letters of the Tajik alphabet with this kids’ song.
- Tajik Number Song – Learn the numbers from 1 to 20 with this kids’ song.
Tajik videos for children
- Tajik Kids TV – YouTube channel with songs for children. Very easy to understand; can be used for language learning.
Tajik films
- The Miracle of Love, Муҷизаи Ишқ – A student at the agricultural university falls in love with a girl studying at the medical university. Interesting points – dating, хостгорӣ, tuberculosis
- The Story of Jesus for Children
- Jesus film
- There are a lot more Tajik films on youtube. Check here: Тоҷикфилм
Tajik short videos
- Animation Love Story of Malika and Rustan – A 3 minute cartoon with English subtitles.
- Videos from muhabbatin website – a series of 1 to 3 minute videos about the rights of women, marriage, divorce, alimony etc.
- Two Little Girls – 3 minute video about human trafficking translated into Tajik
- Prophets Story – An overview of the main prophets. (7 minutes long)
Current Events
- Video of the day – a news video from Ozodi.org.
Movie clips translated into local dialects
- Some clips from Kung Fu Panda in colloquial Tajik.
- 5 minute clip of Madagascar in colloquial Tajik.
Comedy sketches – local dialects
- Тарбуз ту ширинай? – 3 minute sketch about a man buying a watemelon.
- Хуроки бепул – 5 minute sketch about eating in a restaurant.
- Шахарханд – Маслиҳат – several 2-3 minute sketches. 22 minutes total.
- Шахарханд – Шикор. – more 2-3 minute sketches. 22 minutes total.
- Ба ман зан ёбед – 8 minute sketch about an old man asking his three children to find somebody to help him.
- Electricity Thief – 8 minute sketch about the electricity meter readers.
- To find more go youtube and search for шакарханд or лаҳзаҳои гуворо (or just click on those quick links).
Tajik cartoons
- Буд-набуд будгор буд – A 7 minute long Tajik cartoon about a mirror.
- The Hen – cartoon and Tajik folk song
- Боғбон ва дузд – The Gardener and the Thief, 2 minutes, very easy to understand, funny
Other fun stuff
- Ну погоди – this cartoon series is usually wordless but this one has a song that has been translated into Tajik.
- Tajik song using clips from Shrek.
- Short song clips – 8 minutes of short music clips from Disney cartoons with Tajik audio. Funny.