anyone speak farsi?

Question

i'm persian-american but never learned to speak the language of my father's country. i would love to be able to talk to my grandmother just once. any suggestions on how i can learn to converse in farsi?

Answer 1

at the risk of sounding pedantic, please say you want to speak Persian. Once you've learnt the language, then use "farsi" in a Persian sentence.
You won't regret learning the language, believe me!

Answer 2

Hello,سلام

I speak Farsi, well i'll help you with a few pointers to go in the internet for help okay.

از ديدارتان خوشحال شدم

The above text means pleased to meet you.

These are some books that might help you, if i were you, i would check if my local library has them before buying them okay, because that would cost quite some money.

1.~~Teach Yourself Modern Persian
by Narguess Farzad

good introduction to spoken and written Persian. Includes a course book containing dialogues, grammatical notes, exercises and cultural information, together with CDs with recordings of most of the dialogues and some of the exercises. Suitable for beginners

2.~~~Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners,

by Abdi Rafiee

good introduction to colloquial spoken and written Persian. Includes a course book containing dialogues, grammatical notes, exercises and cultural information, together with two audio cassettes or CDs with recordings of most of the dialogues and some of the exercises.

3.~~Dictionary English-Persian and Persian-English
by S. Haim

comprehensive, bilingual Persian-English dictionary containing definitions of over 30,000 words and 22,500 idioms.


4.~~~A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian
by Colin Turner

includes about 25,000 Persian headwords in over seventy themed sections. Covers a wide range of vocabulary from everyday topics such as food or the weather, to more in-depth topics such as astronomy, psychology or international relations.


5.~~~Persian Grammar: For Reference and Revision

by John Mace

clear, user-friendly guide to the grammar of written and spoken Persian. Covers the Persian script in printed and handwritten forms, educated standard and educated colloquial pronunciation, and the important polite forms. The grammar is explained clearly with numerous examples, all shown both in Persian script and in Latin transliteration. The grammatical themes are grouped logically, and there are cross-references, appendices and a subject index.


6.~~~An Introduction to Persian
by Wheeler M. Thackston

comprehensive grammar of modern, classical & colloquial Persian. Includes glossary. A set of tapes to help you with pronunciation is also available. Suitable for those familiar with the Persian script, grammatical terms and phonology.

7.~~~Lonely Planet Farsi (Persian) Phrasebook
by Yavar Dehghani

handy phrasebook that includes an extensive food section, notes on grammar, tips on culture and social etiquette and a two-way dictionary

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If you have no time for books and you have a computer or laptop, try some software like

1.~~~ Talk now Persian,
It is great for begineers, it also has quizzes and also compare your voice to a native speaker to get an accent. well i would recommend you checking it in your library first because it might not be for every one.

2.~~~ Pimsleur Conversational Farsi (Persian), i think this is a great program, because you do not need any revision drills just listening, you can listen to it in your mp3 player or cd player, its great people all over the world have raved about Pimsleur Recorded Books it is effective but expensive.whoa !!!

3. Rosetta stone is also great as well, very effective as well very similar to the above , it is a software program and also has a speech recognition in comparison with a native.

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Internet websites now!!!!

1.http://members.tripod.com/~shahriar/persian/titlepage.html
2.http://www.easypersian.com/
3.http://www.iranianlanguages.com/education/parskids/
4.http://iranianlanguages.com/persian1.php

These websites should give you some basic understanding and also some grasp of the beautiful language that is Persian/Farsi.

ظهر بخير

Answer 3

hello,It's admirable that you WANT to speak persian,but I should tell you that it needs practicing like any other language,and it's a bit hard!
first of all,say Persian not farsi! farsi is used in persian! for example you should say Italian not italiano (hope you got the picture!)persian is written with Arabic letters+4 other letters(I just told it for I think you are not able to read arabic letters,so I write persian words with English letters)
now the vowels:
a= "a" in man
aa="a" in car
e="e" in tell
i="ee" in see
u="oo" in soon
o="o" in boy
I think it's better to learn some basic words:salaam(hello),khubi?(how are you?_literraly means are you good?_),khodaahaafez(goodbye_ have your father read this word for you because of "kh" sound_you can say:bye bye too.)
One thing to know is that SHE and HE in persian differ in nothing.
there are 2 kinds of pronouns in persian,one kind connects to its word,and one kind is separated forom its word.
here are pronouns:
separated: connected: translation
man am (I,me,my)
to et (you,you,your)
u esh (she,her,her_he,him,his)
maa emun (we,us,our)
shoma eshun (you,you,your)
aanhaa eshun (they,them,their)
when you want to relate 2 words you should use an "e" between those 2 words(if the first word ends in a vowel we use a "ye" instead of "e")
examples: ketaab e man=ketaabam=my book
baabaaye man=baabaam=my daddy
maadarbozorg e man=maadarbozorgam=my grandmother
you can ask your father to teach you new words that you need!
enough for this time?...ok...this is my email adress if you like to continiue with me :) [e-mail]
keep practicing and...
good luck!

Answer 4

I can learn Persian to you via emails ... but don't forget never again say "farsi" instead of Persian :


Farsi or Persian ? (CHN)
http://heritage.chn.ir/en/Article/?id=88 [in English]
By Pejman Akbarzadeh.

Persian or Farsi? (PersianDirect)
http://www.persiandirect.com/articles/2004/july/id_00001.htm [in English]
By Ali Moslehi Moslehabadi

"FARSI", recently appeared language! (CAIS-SOAS)
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Languages/persian_not_farsi.htm [in English]
By Prof. Ehsan Yarshater.

Persian, not farsi (Iran Heritage)
http://www.iran-heritage.org/interestgroups/language-letter9.htm [in English]
By Fereshteh Davaran.

Farsi, is this a new language? (PGO)
http://persiangulfonline.org/articles/farsi.htm [in English]
By A. Rostam Beglie Beigie

"FARSI" or "PERSIAN"? What Is the English Name of Our Language? (Payvand)
http://www.payvand.com/news/03/dec/1083.html [in English]
By Pejman Akbarzadeh.

IRAN or PERSIA? FARSI or PERSIAN? (Iran Heritage)
http://www.iran-heritage.org/interestgroups/iranorpersia1.htm [in English]
By Pejman Akbarzadeh.

"FARSI" or "PERSIAN"? (Payvand)
http://www.payvand.com/news/05/dec/1063.html [in English]
By Pejman Akbarzadeh.

The announcement of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_announcement_of_the_Academy_of_Persian_Language_and_Literature [in English]

Persian or Farsi? (Iranian)
http://www.iranian.com/Features/Dec97/Persian/ [in English]
By Kamran Talattof.

"FARSI", recently appeared language! (PersianDirect)
http://www.persiandirect.com/articles/2004/july/id_00003.htm [in English]
By Prof. Ehsan Yarshater.

Technical Terminology
http://students.washington.edu/irina/persianword/tt.htm [in English]

Similar articles in Persian:
http://www.persian-language.org/Group/Article.asp?ID=173 [ in Persian]
http://www.iran-heritage.org/interestgroups/iranorpersian.jpg [in Persian]
http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/821108/litera.htm#s22653 [in Persian]
http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/841010/html/societ.htm#s349176 [in Persian]

Answer 5

i have alot of Iranian friends but only i know Khobi means good the answer of how r u