about Farsi/Persian
Okay so I though maybe I can start teaching farsi in this blog and see what happens. I noticed for people who want ton learn the language there is not a lot of resources so people usually give up. I’m going to give an introduction about the language with my knowledge.
So the Persian language is a very old language older than English. Since Persia is older than Europe it self. It went through many phases and writing systems. You’ll be surprised if you knew hoe many English words come from Persian.
It is an Indo-European language and unlike what most people think it in not related to Arabic at all. The script is the same true, but it is a whole different language. Like English and Spanish. The farsi we use in Iran borrowed words from Arabic (while messing up the pronunciation), French, Russian and Turkish.
It is manly spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. But they use different farsi. Iran uses Farsi while Afghanistan uses Dari farsi and Tajikistan uses Tajiki Farsi. They are some how different in grammar, pronunciation and the usage of words. But people from these three country can understand each other. I am Iranian and I can perfectly understand Dari with no problem before we studied the grammar in elementary school. In Iran we say Dari is older dan farsi and tajiki is a bit older than that since the writing is also different. And I’ve noticed that Dari uses lesser Arabic words that Farsi.
Although the script is the same with Arabic with don’t follow the same rules of pronunciation for each letter and also we don’t have all of the alphabet and we also have 4 more that doesn’t exist in arabic alphabet.
I believe farsi is a lot easier than arabic in the terms of pronunciation but grammar …hmmm we go easy with that. Just use the verb wherever you like it doesn’t matter.
The writing is from right to left. I know it might be confusing I even when I started learning farsi I wrote from left to right because I learned how to write in English first. My mom had a hard time with me to fix this issue.
the next post imma teach the alphabet.