Hi there, thank you in advance for your patience and help, I hope this is an alright request. I am making a card for the birth of a friend's baby....the baby's mother is American and father is Iranian. I'd like to include the same message in English and Farsi. I would like it to say "Welcome to the world, little one." Google translate says "bah dania khosh omadi kucholo."

Would love any feedback or suggestions if this translation does not strike you as accurate.

Hello,

I'm North African, I'm starting my journey to polyglotting and I'm at 3 languages now,

I want to learn Farsi because it's close to my mother tongue, and I want to ask other Arab people like me:

1- How long did it take?

2- what are the best resources you relied on, especially for someone who is Arab. (channels, books..etc)

Thanks

The language institute in my city uses this book for their courses, the Intro for the first three terms (10 weeks once per week) and then the Intermediate book for the next 3 terms. I'd like to hear others' experiences with it?

Can someone please record how you pronounce these lyrics? I’m obsessed with this song and want to be able to sing it, but i don’t know Farsi

https://youtu.be/rpK4yF2yYnQ

I’m considering getting ادراک** *رنج* ***است* tattooed. I want it to convey something like “Perception is suffering” or “To perceive is to suffer.”

Does this sound natural and poetic in Farsi, or is there a more accurate version?

I was looking at a website that had a button labeled “نو + جوان” for content for young people. But I was wondering why the plus sign was in the middle of the word? Because “نوجوان” is a single word, right? So why not “+نوجوان” or just ‎“نوجوان”? What purpose exactly does the plus sign serve? Does it change the meaning in any way?

Hello, does anyone have any leads on where to buy Farsi Crossword Puzzles. I'd like to buy some new ones for a family member here.

Salam!

My father is from Iran and came to the US during the Islamic revolution. I was born in the US. My mom, interestingly enough is from Mexico and came to the US around the same time. Long story short, they both had to learn English as older teenagers and are not native speakers to English. My sister is older than me and had many speech issues growing up. Doctors and speech therapists told my parents that they were confusing her with different languages and ultimately they had to make the decision to speak only English. Then I came along and well, here I am. I have Mexican and Iranian heritage but can only speak English and it breaks my heart lol. When I was younger I didn't care. But now I do. I'm now 36 and my father's health is declining. I want to learn Farsi and speak his native tongue with him in his lifetime. Currently I have Pimsleur that I used for Spanish and have had some decent success with. The Farsi on Pimsleur, while immersive, does not have good reading or writing plans.

Do I learn to read and write now or wait until later?

What are the best programs to utilize in my studies?

How do you all go about learning? I tried immersing myself in music and shows but I don't understand anything so I'm not sure if it's helpful.

How much studying is too much studying? Will it negatively impact retention? With a family and job I find myself rarely having time for anything. But I have a daily hour long commute as well as lunch breaks at work that I can easily utilize.

I do plan on calling my dad and telling him I want to learn and that I'd love for him to be part of this journey.

Merci! Khodafez :)

Hey everyone 😊

We just launched a big update for our Learn Farsi iOS app, and we’re really happy to have it live on the App Store.

Learn Farsi started as a web tool, but many of you asked for a pure mobile experience, so we listened. It’s a simple app to help you learn words, practice, and build up your Persian over time. We’re focused on making it something that’s fun and easy to stick with.

We’d love to build this together with the community and turn it into the best Persian learning app out there, so any honest feedback means a lot 🙏. Let’s give the Persian language the learning tools it deserves (little jab to Duolingo 🦉 😉)

If you want to check it out:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/learn-farsi-persian/id6778589333

And if you enjoy it, leaving a review would really help ❤️

Thanks so much for all the love and support for learnfarsi.app, it really means a lot and helps us keep improving!

سلام. امیدوارم همه چیز خوب باشد.

من دانشجو در کره‌ی جنوبی هستم. و در دانشگاه فارسی را یاد می‌گیرم. اما این روزها کلاس گفتگوی فارسی بر نمی گیرم. پس می‌ترسم که فارسی را کمکم فراموش کنم. سپس فکر کردم که بهتر است با یک فارسی‌گو تمرین کنم.

بنابراین می خواهم در این وبگاه با یک ایرانی یا افغانی یا تاجیکی آشنا شوم و با او به فارسی گفتگو کنم. اگر علاقه داشته‌باشید به من DM کنید لطفا.

I just want a resource that describes the grammar and syntax of the language. I want it to list out things like particles, prepositions, the functional morphemes and clause types. Something like this

https://perseids-publications.github.io/harrington-trees/docs/harrington-greek-grammar-2016.pdf

I don't care to read Farsi study textbooks. I just want the grammar.

Greetings everyone.

I hope someone will be kind enough to help me. I have tried searching but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for the original Persian for Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Rumi) which is usually translated to English as:

"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it".

I want to include the original in an artwork I'm making. The translation feels a bit clumsy to me so I would love to know the original Farsi and any alternative translations. Many thanks in advance 💚💚💚

Which one is the most natural / common?

نزدیک بود یادم بره در رو قفل کنم اما خواهرم یادم آورد

داشت یادم میرفت در رو قفل کنم…

تقریبا یادم رفته بود…

Why do we say چی بخوریم؟ instead of چی می‌خوریم؟

Is there a reason to use a subjunctive form of this verb?

I just heard someone asking her friend چی بخوریم؟.

Why is it بخوریم and not می‌خوریم?

Is there a reason to use a verb in a subjunctive form?

مرسی

Rooz-e shoma bekheir

Do any of you have any suggestions on books that will learn you Farsi with phonetic spelling in Latin alphabet?

I know a lot of you will ask me why I wouldn’t just learn the letters in Farsi, well I tried but my family in law mostly writes everything phonetically in Latin alphabet. (Finglish?)

And it makes it easier for me to learn more speech and conversation

And my main goal is talking anyway

Dastet dard nakone

Hi all, I'm a half persian in my 40s and unfortunately my dad never taught me Farsi so I've been learning on/off through the years via Pimsleur and Mondly, but this year I've invested in a proper tutor from Preply (he's great) and am doing loads of self study with Drops on Android and a book that's helping me to learn how to read/write.

Can read most of the Farsi alphabet and have had 6 lessons now, but aside from being able to read I feel like I'm nowhere near where I want to be - fluency.

Listened to a Persian radio station the other day and could barely understand anything, which was quite deflating. Does anyone have any tips for someone like me, is it achievable at my age?

I'm also really struggling with the roller/trilled r, especially for words like asr, as well as the gh sound.

Practising a lot but still not getting it, I do wonder if the r pronunciation is related to being able to roll your tongue, as my wife and son can do that and roll rs, but I can't do either!

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Thanks in advance 🙂

Dari speaker here. Js curious if there are any russian loanwords in tajiki and what percentage of tajik is “russian”?

I am following the method from Mikel | Hyperpolyglot (Learn 1,000 Sentences & Become Fluent FAST - YouTube), which basically says if your goal is to be fluent in speaking/listening (I am not focused now on writing/reading), focus on learning speaking sentences from the start.

For any senior Farsi learners out there that can converse fluently, I am wondering if you have any idea how many words/sentences did you roughly acquire when you felt comfortable conversing?

For example, if you used Anki, how many cards did you form?

This will be helpful to me for motivational purposes to set it as a goal.

Hello all!

I am married to a first generation born in the US Iranian man. His parents came here right before the revolution. We have been together for 14 years so I have been exposed to A LOT of Farsi. Half the time his mom starts speaking to me in Farsi without realizing it, though she and his whole family are fluent in English. I know quite a lot of nouns from my practice but struggle with verbs. I've done Rosetta stone and Mondly over the years and learned a lot. Recently I've picked up Mondly again (paid for a year, $65). I feel the only way I can truly retain a word is seeing it transliterated (Mondly is great for this). The arabic alphabet eludes me. I would like to maybe learn reading and writing after I get more verbal language under my belt.

I'm looking for recommendations (links) for flash cards on Anki of decks of nouns and adjectives. Possibly verbs? I feel like Mondly is helping me a lot but I know it's teaching very formal farsi and doesn't do much for learning a ton of nouns very fast.

Maybe some recommendations for Brainscape decks? Should I pay for the subscription?

Also has anyone paid for the subscription to Duocard for learning? What was your experience? Thanks everyone!

So my goal is to be able to interact with Iranians on a basic level (directions, say hello..).

I also want to be able to understand news channels, Islamic video lectures and most importantly read Islamic books and Philosophy. I currently have no interests in other subjects, maybe poems later but for now this is my goal, writing and talking is not too important at the moment.

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I was thinking of buying children books with the life o the prophets as a start and some Islamix books, and try to translate it word by word untill I develop a base in vocabulary and familiarize myself with sentence structure.

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I read and write in arabic so I can, to a certain extant read and understand few words that are common with Arabic.

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Please lead me to some resources, and books that I can pull through with. I found some books of Iranian proverbs and populat stories, also some revolution fighters bios are those a good read to begin with?

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Some may remember I made a post about an app for learning to speak and write Farsi on iPhone a few months ago

Many comments were asking where the Android version was. I can now happily announce it's here!

https://learn-persian.pages.dev/get-app/

It has subscriptions or a lifetime purchase, but there is a generous amount for free too.

There is absolutely no requirement to subscribe.

I use the money to make a living, and can keep improving and adding more lessons.

If you enjoy it, please give me it a rating! It would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Dari speaker here. Just curious if there r any words that arent different or barely used or dont exist at all in Dari that the tehrani dialect uses; considering Dari and Tehrani are almost exactly the same.