Easy Persian Lesson 1 - Let's Start With the Alphabet

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

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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, we will make great progress to begin advanced Persian that will let you communicate with others in Persian in both oral and written. In near future, you will find yourself speaking, reading, and even writing in Persian. These all can only be achieved through practicing these simple steps, which make learning as easy as possible. Like anything else, youll have to learn some basics first, and its inevitable! In these lessons, I have tried hard to simplify the rules as much as possible. However, its a new language for you and requires at least a little bit of effort if not very much! All you have to do is be patient and follow the instructions one by one. In the meantime, we are going to learn the Persian letters and the way they are pronounced and of course we will do it step by step to make sure that everything is quite clear. After you got a little familiarity with some basics you would see that its really as easy as 1, 2, 3. 1. Unlike western languages, Persian is written and read from right to left. 2. Persian consists of 32 letters. Some of them have small and big form like A / a in English while others have only one form. You dont need to memorize all of them now. Just be patient enough to learn it one by one. In the end youll see your progress.

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3. As you know, English words cannot be pronounced without these five letters: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y as in BY. These are called vowels. In Persian, however, there are no letters considered as vowels. Instead, we put some sounds on or under the letters to make them readable. There are six main sounds in Persian recognized as vowels, three short vowels and three long vowels. Remember that these are not letters. These are sounds that come with letters and make them pronounceable. Today we will learn short vowels. The representatives (symbols) of these sounds (vowels) are as follows:

1Do you see the small symbol on A? If this sign sits on a letter, the letter will be pronounced as // in dad.

If this sign, which is exactly written in the same way as in number one, sits under a 2letter, it will be pronounced as /e/ in set.

3border.

If this sign, which has a circle on his head, sits on a letter, it will be pronounced as /o/ in

Note: this sign sits on the letters only. These three sounds are called short vowels. Now that you are familiar with these three short vowels you are ready to learn a couple of letters to practice with these sounds. Today we are going to learn three big letters as well as their small forms. 1This is the big letter B in Persian. In the meantime, you dont need to learn how to write it. We are just trying to pronounce it with the help of those three short vowels above. Ready? Dont worry. Ill write it for you. All you have to do is pronounce it.

This is /b/ as in battery.

This one is /be/ as in bed.

This one is /bo/ as in border. Try to repeat it for a couple of times. 2This one is the small letter b in Persian. Now try to pronounce this letter in the same

way. Dont forget to read from right to left. You will say.

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Dont be afraid! Its not that much difficult. Dont believe me? Click here to listen!

B letters
Note: big letters come at the end of the words and may stand either attached or separated from other letters (they are separable), while the small letters come at the beginning or in the middle of the words and are attached to some other letters (they are inseparable). There is only one exception that will be explained later.

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This one is the big letter P in Persian. Try to pronounce it with the short vowels.

as /p/ in pad.

as /pe/in pet.

as /po/in pork.

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This one is the small letter p in Persian. Try to pronounce it. Dont forget to read from

right to left. You will say: Need help? Click here to listen.

P letters
5This one is big letter T in Persian. Try to pronounce it with the short vowels.

as /t/ in tab.

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as /te/ in tennis.

as /to/ in torn.

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This is the small letter t. Dont forget to read from right to left. Try to pronounce

it. Still need help? Click here.

T letters
Ok. With this we come to the end of lesson one. I hope you have enjoyed it. Make sure to check the Useful drills now. Dont forget to visit this page every weekend. This site is updated weekly. Thats it for today. Feel tired? Hit me Click here if you want to write in Persian.

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Comments
1. Suzumiya says: April 29, 2012 at 4:49 am Thank you very much for your website! It has lots of grammar explained. Unfortunately, Farsi is not as popular on the internet as Arabic is, so your website is a treasure. Farsi is easier than Arabic, so I will learn first Farsi then Arabic. Reply 2. Alfredo G says: May 16, 2012 at 10:52 pm very nice the new style always great all the work! tashakkor khosh bashid Reply 3. Bahattin Gke says: May 20, 2012 at 11:00 am Thank you very much. Your web-site is so good. Reply 4. Phillip McLennan says: May 23, 2012 at 9:39 pm Dear Hassan, ! Very much admire and enjoy lessions. Book available? Thanks, Phil Reply 5. Mariam says: May 26, 2012 at 2:37 pm It was a great surprise for me to see that the oxford language centre offers my sweet lovely language Parsi as well. Thank you very much and well done! Reply 6. Hassan H. says: May 29, 2012 at 11:10 pm Thanks everybody. I am very happy that you have found this site useful.

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Philip, Currently, BOOK is not available. Maybe in the future. All the best to all of you, Hassan Reply 7. elisa says: May 31, 2012 at 9:15 am Reply 8. get rid f bed bugs says: June 1, 2012 at 5:32 am Whats up to all, how is everything, I think every one is getting more from this site, and your views are good designed for new visitors. Reply

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