Mohammad Mujtaba

The teacher matches the pace of the student and adapts the vocabulary to the students' need or wants to apply the concepts in their daily life.

The teacher is very clear about the pronunciation and grammar structure

Good lesson with Muhammad in which I learned more phrases and some personal details about him and he answered some of my questions. I think there was a bit of a disconnect with my question and how he understood my question, but in the end I was able to phrase my questions in such a way that I still got the answer.

The teacher gives homework on the daily lesson and check to see if the concept is learned.

Mohammad strikes me as a calm, collected person. It is clear to me that he is aware of how spoken Dari and formal Dari differ, which I think is a good sign, as e.g. diglossic speakers of Arabic tend to not know as well how to explain the rules of their dialect as opposed to the formal language. During the lesson he discussed he is learning German, which means he will be able to empathise with the struggles of beginners in Dari and know how to deal with that. He does focus on colloquial and written Dari at the same time (though I'm sure he can modify that at the learner's behest), but personally I don't find this a problem, even though I myself am focusing on formal Dari. I don't intend to "study" colloquial Dari as I am diligently studying formal Dari, but I do think Mohammad's approach is nice and that hopefully I will "absorb" colloquial Dari naturally from formal dari. Mohammad does sometimes use Iranian pronunciation, but maybe I'm mishearing it and when I ask the Dari emerges.

The teacher has a grammar book with exercised to reinforce the lessons.