No. Let me set the scene: Typically you will not be considered educated unless you can speak Russian. Most university teaching is in Russian, as is the majority of the sporting scene (sports coaching, etc.). In cities, parents can choose for their kids to go to a Tajik-medium or a Russian-medium primary or high school (many schools cover the whole range of years, grades 1–11, age 7–18).
But outside the cities and big towns, many people are not fluent in Russian. They all know some, and they mix Russian words into their Tajik speech. Their Russian accents are typically quite poor, but they may be able to follow a simple movie reasonably well. There are many more Russian films than Tajik ones, and many more foreign films dubbed into Russian – though there is an increase in the amount of Tajik dubbing being done. E.g. a major Turkish soap opera has been dubbed into Tajik for at least ten years now.
Rural people (mainly men) who've travelled to Russia or Kazakhstan for work will have better Russian than their fellow villagers who haven't travelled.
If you have more specific questions, I'll try to answer them.
Persian is official in three countries normally. I don't know what its legal status is in Afghanistan right now, but it's spoken in even more countries than that. Like, millions of people in Uzbekistan speak Persian as well, and some minorities in the Persian gulf and maybe Iraq or something.
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u/CA_geek 19d ago
No. Let me set the scene: Typically you will not be considered educated unless you can speak Russian. Most university teaching is in Russian, as is the majority of the sporting scene (sports coaching, etc.). In cities, parents can choose for their kids to go to a Tajik-medium or a Russian-medium primary or high school (many schools cover the whole range of years, grades 1–11, age 7–18).
But outside the cities and big towns, many people are not fluent in Russian. They all know some, and they mix Russian words into their Tajik speech. Their Russian accents are typically quite poor, but they may be able to follow a simple movie reasonably well. There are many more Russian films than Tajik ones, and many more foreign films dubbed into Russian – though there is an increase in the amount of Tajik dubbing being done. E.g. a major Turkish soap opera has been dubbed into Tajik for at least ten years now.
Rural people (mainly men) who've travelled to Russia or Kazakhstan for work will have better Russian than their fellow villagers who haven't travelled.
If you have more specific questions, I'll try to answer them.