Persian Lesson 49 – Countries in Persian – Part Two

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All right, now let’s begin.

As far as I remember, I raised a question for you last week. I hope you have found the answer by now.

Here’s the question:

For countries (words) ending with /a:/ sound in Persian, such as /a:mrika:/, we should put this /i:/ at the end of the Persian word. Why?

Answer:

In Persian, it is not possible to have /a:/ and /i:/ together in one single word. That is to say, we cannot pronounce as long /i:/ when it comes after long /a:/.

It seems logical! Look at your mouth in the mirror when you are saying /a:/, and try it again when you are saying /i:/! You will see two different positions of your mouth at the time of pronouncing these two sounds. It seems impossible for us to produce these two sounds simultaneously. To solve this problem, we have to attach another letter to to create long /i:/. Since any other letter may produce a different combination, and as a result a different word, we have to add another to to pull our up-going mouth down! (Long /i:/ = )

Hopefully, you got the answer. If not, look at yourself in the mirror again and again patiently!

Quiz:

1- Listen to the audio files first (preferably once). Repeat it for a couple of times. Write it down on a paper. Find their English equivalents. (Seen)

One

One

Two

Two

Three

Three

2- Find the Persian equivalent for the following words and make four sentences with each of them (one in simple past tense, one in present perfect tense using ‘for’, one in simple future tense, and one in past perfect tense).

Place
Problem
To encounter
To forget something or somebody

3- Say these numbers in Persian:

19 – 44 – 66 – 303 – 977 – 6000 – 6006

4- Follow the examples, combine the letters, and make words using the given letters. You’ll have to change the big letters into the small ones whenever needed.

Friend <= /du:st/ < ==

Book <= /keta:b/ < ==

Telephone <= /telefon/< ==

New <= /ta:zeh/ < ==

Year <= /sa:l/ < ==

This <= /in/ < ==

Child <= /bæch.cheh/ < ==

(Remember Tashdid? Look at the child!)

All right,

Today, we are going to learn the name of some more countries in Persian. This is the second and the last part of country names. If the country you want is not listed here, please send it to me through e-mail and find its Persian equivalent on this page later. I mean, in lesson 49.

Saudi Arabia /æræbesta:n _e_ sæu:di/.

Hungary /mæja:resta:n/.

Russia /ru:si yeh/. Also, /shorævi/.

Denmark /da:n ma:rk/.

Belgium /bel zhik/.

Bel zhik

Japan /zha: pon/.

Zhapon

Turkey /torki yeh/.

Mexico /mek zik/.

India /hend/.

Sweden /su: ed/. Note: the strange letter you see here is prounounced as /e/ of /alef/. Since, using /alef/ will create another word here, we use this strange letter for this specific situation to avoid confusion.

China /chin/.

Poland /læhesta:n/.

Please go to Useful drills page to practice more.

Let’s write page is waiting for you if you want to learn and practice Persian writings.

See you next week!

Khoda Hafez!

Lesson 49

• Let’s Write 49
• Useful Drills 49