How similar are Farsi and Dari? Will either help me learn Arabic?

Is there anyone who can help me?

Salam, I'm a an Tajik Afghan girl born in the UK and I'm looking to reconnect with my culture, beginning with my language. I have a decent base but I'd like to get to native level through making friends with someone and practising with them. I consider myself a conservative Muslim so I'd only like to be talking to other females. If you'd be kind enough to help, please reply/dm me!

Salaam! I’ve been working on teaching myself Farsi since my family didn’t instill much more than conversational stuff, and since I want to use it around the house I thought teaching my dogs their commands in Farsi would be a way to do that! Could someone help me with a few? Please include the transliteration as my script reading isn’t the best yet 😭 I’m looking for

Sit Stay Good girl/boy Come here Bad girl/boy Treats Asking to walk Leave/ignore it Find toy

I think that’s all I have for now, I know some words but want it to sound natural! They don’t have to be just one word I was just giving an idea of what the command would be for, if you know anything else I would find useful feel free to include that too! (: merci!

A while back at my university, a professor of Iranian literature was supposed to give a lecture on vampires in Iranian literature to one of my classes, but went on a tangent and never actually got to the literature part of the lecture. I don’t particularly like her, so I don’t want to reach out to ask which books she was going to talk about. Now I’m wondering if anyone has any recommendations for any Iranian vampire/gothic/horror novels? Can be in Farsi or English.

I would like some recommendations for poems/books of poetry that were in response to the revolution in 1979. Not ones from decades later about the revolution, but contemporaneous expressions of what was going on. Online or print is fine, I would love bilingual Persian and English (or French) but monolingual is fine too. Anyone have some suggestions?

I have a new student who only speaks Dari who cannot read yet (young elementary school). Most the time in scenarios like this we use the Google Translate audio conversation feature but Dari/Farsi don’t seem to be an option there. Are there any english -> dari audio translator apps?

Hello everyone! I’m a native speaker but my Farsi is not that great, and I can’t make out a lot of the words of this song, but I’m trying to learn it to sing to my son. Is there anyone here who speaks better than me, who would be willing to listen and write out the words to this song? I can’t find the lyrics anywhere online.

Thank you in advance!

https://open.spotify.com/track/4EyBqiGDMclG3AfQedXHIF?si=VcSStqd2TdmKYkBfVFomOg

“Friend” by Naser Nazar

I will continue to do my search and I have found one language program not affiliated with a school that I am exploring. I am just hoping that someone here might know of a school here in Va that offers either Farsi or Dari for online/distance learning. Not asking for a handout, just if anyone is familiar with or knows about such a program. I have some vocabulary and basic understanding of Farsi but need to apply it more with a structured program. This is something that my job will likely subsidize.

So, I want to get a tattoo in Farsi because my ancestors used to live in Iran 200-300 years ago. I want a word which is connected to this, and not of Arabic origin. I liked سفر a lot but turns out it's of Arabic origin lol

Thanks for the dislikes <3

I’m baking homemade goods for my Persian boyfriend’s family who live in the states. Hoping for a phonetic translation to:

“This is my favorite homemade holiday treat! Warning: they’re addicting! Happy holidays! With love, (name)”

Thank you!

Salaam!

I have met a Persian woman and have fallen head over heels for her and we are now dating. She speaks English very well, but I have been trying to learn Farsi so that one day we hopefully can communicate in her native tongue as well. If it becomes the long term relationship we both want it to, I would love to be able to speak to her day to day in Farsi.

I previously studied Latin and gained a lot of experience with learning a language through this. I am a native English speaker, and also speak a modest amount of French. Latin in particular though gave me a much better understanding of grammar and the parts of speech, verb tenses, etc. I developed a really good process for learning Latin, through daily vocabulary reviews with Anki flash cards, as well as more advanced grammar and phrase cards.

I am a bit intimidated by Persian script, so for now I am only attempted to learn Latinized Persian (which is what I’m calling the Persian script rendered into the Latin alphabet - please correct me if there is a better name for this), though I have also made a flash card deck for Persian script. It just seems complicated as I need to learn not just a new alphabet, but the forms for them in different positions, and a lot of them look VERY similar to me.

I signed up for Ling App to take their Persian course. I am doing at least one lesson a day. For each lesson, as new words are introduced, I copy and paste the Persian script and Latinized Persian into my Anki flash card deck, and also copy and paste it into ChatGPT to ask it to give me “easy pronunciation” for it, which seems to work surprisingly well. The ”kh” sound gives me the most trouble to pronounce. My girlfriend offered to sit down with me to record her pronunciation for all of the words I am trying to learn, so that I can also memorize and become familiar with her native pronunciation as I review them. I try to speak each flash card as it comes up, to help cement the connection and activate the linguistic parts of my brain, connecting the information I am memorizing to my tongue as best I can. I also add some phrases as I learn them, and other words I think are important to know outside of the course.

So my daily routine is basically to review all of my due Anki flash cards, and gradually add to them through the Ling Persian course or other sources of vocabulary that I come across.

Separately from this, I’ve also started to look into more Persian grammar. I had hoped that conjugating the present tense would be the easiest, as this is definitely the case in Latin and French, but it looks like this is not the case in Persian, as you need to just learn and memorize the present stem of each verb. In Latin though there are 4 “principal parts” to memorize, so in this regard Persian isn‘t so bad by comparison. So now when I learn a new verb, I look up the present stem and add it to my flash card to memorize, and have a specific Anki card type for verbs that quizzes me on their present stems.

I picked up a few books to help me to learn as well, or act as resources to consult. Of course, I can always ask my girlfriend but I try not unless I am really confused with something.

Any other tips or good resources that I should check out? I would love in particular some ”conjugation tables” that I can print to help memorize the constructions for conjugation verbs in different tenses and person / number.

Thanks in advance!

An Iranian once told me a phrase but I forgot how it goes in Persian. The English translation is something like: you should worry about cleaning your own home before worrying about your neighbors.

I want to learn Farsi and watching these shows is how I learned English so I assume it will help me learn. Any suggestions? I don’t mind paying for it.

Or already existing Classical Persian translations of those works. I'm asking specifically because I'm looking at the Denkard, but there's plenty of other Middle Persian literature out there, too.

Hello all,

The term "gaslighting" has come up quite a bit recently over the last few days. I was trying to explain the concept to another Iranian but I couldn't really think of a good Parsi equivalent. What do you guys think ?

Can someone let me know what the word hamlevar (حملور) means in English? I’ve seen it written. Google translate says “carrier” but I’m not sure what to make of that. Any help is appreciated, much thanks

I have heard this in a few songs now; the one I can think of now is گرفتار, which I’m pretty sure meant “caught/trapped”. I don’t know if ار ending to make an adjective from a verb is a standard practice of spoken Persian or if this is poetic. Is it like خنده دار, but دار becomes contracted? Thanks.

Hi, I'm wondering which of these terms makes more sense in Farsi (if either)?

I am curious since looking into the naming of various units in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army who favoured a Persian naming convention it seems. For instance, Fauj-Ain, Fauj-i-Khas etc.

So I was wondering if I wished to name a Toshakhana (treasury/treasure house) how exactly would that work and make sense? I basically want it to represent the term "treasury of freedom/liberty".

It seems like the institution would come first, then the "-i-" (if anyone can help me understand this as well, I would really appreciate it), and then whatever additional label on the end (in my case "Azaad or Azaadi")

It would help me a lot to learn Persian

Edit: Thank you all

Hello! I am half iranian born in italy, my mother is iranian and she has been trying to teach me farsi for many years with little success. I have been struggling with it for years now, the thing that bugs me the most is the alphabet, I just can't understand it. Can you guys please give me some tips to learn this language? I really want to learn it but I just keep failing

What is the Farsi saying when you love someone and it has to do with the moon?

Hello everyone!

I was dating a Persian man for a couple of months, we’re not in contact anymore unfortunately because of different reasons, but I have a strong feeling we’re gonna reconcile in the future.

I want to learn persian because my native language is Arabic and I can read and write, which motivated me even more to learn Farsi. Also a lot of words are similar in Arabic and Farsi (way more than I thought!) and I have an easy time remembering words he taught me.

But one thing I struggle with is pronouncing “a.” Take the name “Rahbar” for example, which is his last name 🤭 Why is the first “a” pronounced differently than the second one? In Arabic, both would be the same, but it seems to be different in Farsi. How to I distinguish the two?

Hi. I've met a persian man since a bit more than one year now and he is one of the most amazing being I have ever met. I want to learn his language and surprise him. For now I just know some little words that we use as private jokes but I would really love to dive more deeply in the language 💖 If anyone has any advice or resources on how to get started I would be grateful :)

https://preview.redd.it/m102piyq9mxd1.jpg?width=337&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f466cc00bfc18a0d13ce7a24ae69f5cd3c24754

wondering if anyone can translate this. my dad is Iranian and he wrote this on my birth certificate. i always wondered what it says.