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
- Меҳроб – A young Tajik devout Muslim man leaves his village to go and study in the capital city, but when he arrives things quickly go wrong. Very strange movie, but good for language. Interesting points – conversion to Islam, love.
- 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.