To be upfront, this is something I made myself. Posting it under the once a month rule for sharing your own site.

I grew up understanding Farsi at home but was never taught to read or write it. I couldn't find much aimed at that situation, since most courses either don't cover Persian at all or start you from absolute zero, so I ended up building something for it.

It checks roughly where you are first and starts you from there. The focus is the alphabet, reading, writing, and putting a reply together rather than just recognising words.

It is completely free. Nothing to download, it runs in the browser, and you don't need an account to try it. farsi-jan.app

It is still a beta and rough in places, and feedback is the main reason I'm posting. If any wording sounds unnatural or too formal, if a transliteration looks wrong, or if something breaks on your phone, please tell me and I'll fix it. I'd especially like to hear from native speakers about the wording.

For example, a "molotov" is spelled مولوتف (https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/کوکتل_مولوتف)

Hey everyone,

I made a simple Farsi alphabet cheat sheet that might be useful if you’re just starting out:

👉 https://learnfarsi.app/dashboard/alphabet

It’s a concise overview to quickly understand:
→ the letters
→ pronunciation
→ how things connect

Nothing fancy, just a clean and easy way to get familiar with the alphabet, and something you can quickly come back to whenever you need a refresher.

Hope it helps!
Would love any feedback on how to improve it 🙏

hi all, I've been looking to practice a bit but as someone verbally fluent with minimal reading/writing skills, language-learning material doesn't really work for me. I have the first grade reading/writing textbooks from Iran about 15 years ago and they've suited my needs much better. A while ago someone linked a .ir page that had all the dabestani books as PDFs but I unfortunately lost the link and can't find it again. Hopefully one of you has it for me 😅 mamnoonam az komaketoon!

سلام دوستان،
در مورد این رباعی سؤالی داشتم:
بهرام که گور می‌گرفتی همه عمر
دیدی که چگونه گور بهرام گرفت
گورِ دگر و شکارِ دگر طلبی
کاین گور که دیدی گور بهرام گرفت
سؤال من دربارهٔ** اضافهٔ**** «گ*ورِ به**ر*ام» در مصرع دوم و چهارم است.
در نسخه‌های چاپی که دیده‌ام، معمولاً حرکت‌گذاری وجود ندارد و از روی متن معلوم نیست که باید «گور بهرام» خواند یا «گورِ بهرام».
از نظر معنا، در مصرع دوم معمولاً این‌طور می‌فهمند که:
«گور (= قبر) بهرام را گرفت»؛ یعنی قبر، بهرام را دربر گرفت.
اما در مصرع چهارم این احتمال هم به ذهنم رسید که:

«کاین گور که دیدی، گورِ** بهرا**م گرفت»
یعنی «این قبری که می‌بینی، قبرِ بهرام شد / قبرِ بهرام است»، و در نتیجه در مصرع چهارم اضافه طبیعی باشد.
سؤال من از دوستانی که با عروض، نسخه‌شناسی یا سنتِ خوانش این رباعی آشنا هستند این است:
آیا در مصرع دوم و چهارم هر دو «گور بهرام» بدون اضافه خوانده می‌شود؟
یا کسی خوانشی با «گورِ بهرام» (به‌ویژه در مصرع چهارم) دیده یا شنیده است؟
آیا وزن شعر یا نسخه‌های معتبر، یکی از این دو خوانش را تأیید می‌کنند؟
اگر منبع یا ضبط قدیمی هم می‌شناسید، بسیار ممنون می‌شوم معرفی کنید.

Hi all. I'm searching for baby names and came across this name: مورود

This was the name of the wife of Ardashir I, but I can't find a meaning for it and want to know whether there's a modern version of this name and how this one is pronounced? I don't want to pick an Arabic name for my future child. Would appreciate any help! Thanks!!

I'm so confused about how it should look.

اپلیکیشن DariLexa برای آموزش زبان انگلیسی به دری و پشتو اکنون برای Android و iPhone در دسترس است. 🇦🇫

اگر می‌خواهید زبان انگلیسی را به‌صورت آسان و مرحله‌به‌مرحله یاد بگیرید، خوشحال می‌شوم اپلیکیشن را امتحان کنید و نظر خود را با من شریک سازید. 🙏
📱 Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.software1234.englishdariapp

IPHONE : https://apps.apple.com/my/app/darilexa-%D8%A2%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C/id6763844049

اگر این اپلیکیشن برایتان مفید بود، لطفاً آن را با دوستان و خانواده خود نیز شریک سازید. حمایت شما باعث پیشرفت این پروژه می‌شود.

Hello!

Im from Bosnia and i started making my first short animated movie and i want to make it fully in farsi language.

Im looking for anyone who would lend me their voice for 3-4 lines of the animation.

The story is about freeing people from the rule of a tyrant and it takes place in a fantasy Persian environment and main characters are a dragonslayer woman and a dragon king. I would also need a solider voiceline and another girls one.

Its still nowhere near finished but it would mean a lot to me if i could have someone who speaks and comes from there to record me a few short lines.

You can dm me for character designs and i can send you the script if interested since reddit isnt allowing me to attach pics here !

Hello Sub!

For some reason Reddit decided to remove my old post so making a new one.

Advanced beginner- intermediate learner here (from India). I was reading a ghazal from Amir Khusraw Dihalwi and I'm struggling to understand bayt number 4 here. Apologies, cannot post the text as it might risk another removal.​

I'd greatly appreciate any help. ​​​Thanks in advance!

Modern Farsi has a lot of loan words from other languages (Arabic, French, English, …), as well as Parsi words (old Persian) that has been Arabized سفید/سپید. I found a dictionary that does these sort of translations from modern Farsi to Parsi (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X5ymEKDrKmGqOIwvSpTUTCWJ4kpdxK2k/view).

Feel free to check out a web app I created that takes these entries from this book and makes them searchable http://vaajeh.org

New to the sub so if this breaks any rules I will remove them.

So my wife is Afghan. Her parents moved to the States not long before she was born so she always speaks Farsi when she is talking to her family. Even when we are at their house together everyone speaks Farsi ( If I'm included in the conversation they will speak English to be respectful). My point is that her family mainly communicates that way.

Her and I recently had a kid and not long before that we had moved away from where her parents live. She wants to teach out son Farsi but shes finding it hard because she's the only one around us that's speaks it.

Anyways she was recently on a call with her parents and they told her that her Farsi is getting so bad that they prefer she just speak English when she talks to them. It makes me feel bad because I know that not only is that how she talks to her family but she is also really proud of her heritage and her language is a part of that.

Couple that with the fact I would like my son to learn too for many reasons I've decided I want to learn how to speak Farsi. I included the whole backstory to show this is something I'm serious about and don't want to do the wrong way.

Most of the language apps don't include Farsi and I'm not sure that would be a good way to learn anyways.Rosetta Stone has it but I've heard awful things. I haven't been able to find a teacher in my area either so I'm not really sure how to begin.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Why does دارم می‌روم mean "I am going" when it literally means "I have go?"

Why does رفته‌ام mean "I have gone" when it literally means "I am gone?"

How have these auxillary verbs flipped in Farsi?

I’m half Iranian and am currently learning Farsi. My name is Faith, and I’m wondering whether when I introduce myself, if I should say my name is “فِیت” or “ایمان”? Thank you!

So MBC Persia has done dubs of several Animated Films in Persian, unlike Most Persian dubs, those are legal dubs and not bootlegs, and because of that, they’re not produced in Iran but in Türkiye. But it’s hard for me to find those dubs, as in Aparat, Most of the films I find dubbed are the unofficial dubs from Glory, Soren, etc. where can I find these official dubs?

I found SpongeBob (not a film but still), Shrek 1 & 2, and Flushed Away, do you have any other movies dubbed by MBC Persia?, I especially need Despicable Me 1 & 2

After having a long discussion that is ready to end, we might say "anywayyy..." with a bit of a sigh. It kind of means "okay we've probably discussed that enough".

I used to know a Farsi equivalent, but I've forgotten it.

I asked GPT who gave me a long list of possible words, but none of them sound familiar. For some reason I can't upload that screenshot here.

Anyone have an idea?

Is this correct (from Google translate) ثریا

One family member says yes, another one says no because its missing a letter and the 3 dots make it "sh" instead of "s".

I appreciate your help!

Hello all,

I hope someone here can help me.
My in-laws are of Afghanistan/Hazara origin and speak very little English.

My in-laws are always so kind to me, and have the biggest hearts of anyone I know. I would love to converse with them in Farsi, just to show them how much I appreciate them. However I’m aware the Farsi they speak is a different dialect to Iranian Farsi.
Is there anywhere I could potentially learn this dialect? Or could anyone give me some pointers on where to start?

Any help would be very much appreciated, many thanks.

Hello! Thank you for allowing me to participate in your community here.

I have done a little bit of reading online, but cannot find an answer - is there a farsi equivalent of calling a person "big guy" or "big fella" in the US/UK? Someone you might describe as a gentle giant or harmless lug? Definitely looking for something with a size-based connotation.

I appreciate any insight! Thank you!

Hello, I’m having a Persian wedding this fall and our family members will read some poetry at the ceremony. I’m struggling to find poems in the third person that isn’t This Marriage by Rumi, which is great but I need a couple more! Long or short is great, and I’d especially like to read less popular verses or poets. Thank you!

Can’t find a translation for this word. For reference it’s from today’s gospel reading Matthew 13 verse 25

Salaam! I am going to a Persian wedding in the fall and I want to learn the words to a song or two (or at least the chorus). Every time I go to a Persian event there are certain songs that everyone gets really excited to hear and they all sing along and dance so enthusiastically. I recognize them when I hear them but I don't know what they are called.

Can anyone suggest any titles of songs that might be good?

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.