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Persian Lesson 1 – The Alphabet, Short Vowels, B, P, T Letters

Lesson 1 (Start from the very beginning!) This is the first Farsi lesson. For those who are, to some extent, familiar with these basics of Persian language, it might seem redundant. Nevertheless, as mentioned above, we are going to learn Persian from the very scratch that I think will be more helpful. Little by little,… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 2 – The Alphabet, Long Vowels

Lesson 2 (Welcome back!) Before beginning lesson two, I think it’s necessary to mention that each lesson is the continuation of the previous one. Consequently, you may find yourself unable to understand the new lessons perfectly if you ignore the previous lessons. So, I strongly recommend that you study the lessons step by step without… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 3 – Letters from /alef/ to /he/

Welcome back! I hope you are enjoying these lessons. I will be thankful if you let me know about your suggestions Last week, we studied long vowels with the help of three letters , , and . I hope you remember the previous lessons. Don’t worry if you are not so fluent at this stage…. Read More…

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Persian Lesson 4 – Letters /khe/ to /ze/

Welcome back! So far, we have learned eight letters as far as the alphabet is concerned. Do you remember the letters? Excellent! Now, pronounce them again before we proceed. If you still need to listen to their pronunciations, click here. Remember that a building will remain strong if it has got a strong foundation. The… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 5 – Letters /zhe/ to /za:d/

Welcome back! Have you studied the previous lessons carefully? It’s wonderful if the answer is yes! If not, please study those lessons before taking care of the new ones. Last week, we covered five more letters. Do you remember them? They are , , , , . If you need to listen to these letters… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 6 – Letters /ta:/ to /ghæin/

Hello everyone, welcome back! How do you find the lessons? Is it really helping? I hope it is. I’ll be grateful if you let me know how the site is doing. Please keep on writing. All right. To begin with, let’s take a look at the letters we learned last week. Remember? Good! Now repeat… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 7 – Letters /fe/ to /ga:f/

Hello everyone, welcome back! I hope you have studied the previous lessons well. As you know, we are so close to the end of part one, which is learning the vowels and letters. I request you to try hard to get fluent in recognizing the letters and pronouncing them with the help of the vowels… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 8 – Letters /la:m/ to /va:v/

Hello everyone, welcome back! Before we start, I would like to express my deep appreciation to all of you who have been sending me really warm messages during this time. The more feedback you send, the better insight I get, and this will help me organize the theme of the lessons better. Please keep on… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 9 – Letters /he/ to /ye/, sokoon, tashdid

Hello everyone, Welcome back! Last week I received a very good message from a 15-year-old Brazilian with some good suggestions in it. I wish all of your messages were like this! He had some good suggestions one of which was to present the Persian samples page bilingually. It is a good idea, but believe me… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 10 – Review, Subjective Pronouns

Hello everyone, welcome back! Let me start by wishing a wonderful Christmas followed by a very prosperous new year to all of you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Now, let’s begin. As you know, we have successfully completed part one that was learning the letters. Today, we are going to take a very short… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 11 – Simple Past Tense, How to make a verb in S.P.tense

Hello everyone, welcome back! Last week we learned the subjective pronouns in Persian. I hope you had no problems with them. Let’s take a look at them again. 1- I = . Listen! 2- You = . Listen! 3- he and she = . Listen! 4- it = . Listen! 5- we = . Listen!… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 12 – Compound Verbs in Simple Past Tense

Hello everyone, welcome back! As you remember, we started learning simple past tense last week. From today, we are going to practice with this tense to make sure that it is clearly understood. Try to make the foundation of your building as strong as possible! To do this here, we need to practice a lot…. Read More…

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Persian Lesson 13 – Start Making Sentences in S.P. Tense

Hello everyone, welcome back! I hope all of you have been following the lessons patiently and step by step. As I have told you on and on, we are going to learn Persian from the very beginning. It will take us a while to find ourselves fluent. I think the quality is more important than… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 14 – Delete Subjects of Your Sentences

Hello everyone, welcome back! I hope you are enjoying the lessons. Please let me receive your suggestions. Your suggestions will bring a lot of change! Today, we are going to take care of some new hints. Hint 1 – As you have noticed, we have some letters after each verb when we want to combine… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 15 – How to Say ‘my’ plus ‘noun’ in Persian

Hello everyone, welcome back! Some of you seem curious about the total number of the lessons I’ll provide you with. Well, in one word, I don’t really know the answer! These lessons are not pre-written. So, the total number is not clear. I just write one lesson for each week whenever I am close to… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 16 – How to Say my, your, his, plus noun in persian

Hello = /sæla:m/. Welcome = /khosh a:mædid/. Last week we learned how to say ‘my friend’ in Persian. Today, we are going to learn some more. Let’s see how we can say the followings: My friend Your friend His/her friend Its friend Our friend Your friend Their friend Wow! Seems a Herculean job! Isn’t it?… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 17 – The Structure of a Complete Sentence in S. P. Tense

Salam! Khosh amadid! How was the previous lesson? Like it? Let me know if you faced any problems, but please specify the problems so clearly that I can understand you. So far, we have almost learned the simple past tense. For example we know that we should follow the following rule to make a sentence… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 18 – Negative in S. P. Tense, Numbers from 1 to 10

Salam! Khosh amadid! Correction Last week, on Useful drills page I made a mistake for which I owe you a big excuse! I gave you a paragraph in English and asked you to translate it into Persian. Quite accidentally, the title sentence was this: Please translate the following paragraph into English, instead of saying ‘into… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 19 – Objective Pronouns, Numbers from 11 to 20

Salam! Khosh amadid! Are you still with me or not? How was the previous lesson? Please be in touch and let me know about your progress. And please be patient with me if many of you don’t receive direct replies to their messages! Next week I’ll talk some about some words, which could have different… Read More…

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Persian Lesson 20 – How to Make Plural Nouns

Salam! Khosh amadid! Before we start today, let me answer to some of your questions first. 1- Which Farsi / Persian are you teaching? Well, I am teaching Persian/Farsi that is currently spoken in Iran! We may divide Persian/Farsi into Old and Modern Persian. Old Persian is no longer used among the common people in… Read More…