Module 11 · Lesson 1 of 6
Persian (Farsi) Lesson: Fire up the grill
You will say
Nahar kabab-e!
Lunch is kebab!
Your host, Baba
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- About 5 minutes, 22 short screens.
- Persian in English letters (Finglish): no alphabet to learn first.
- Everyday spoken Persian, the way people talk in Tehran.
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Say "Lunch is kebab!" and 4 more lines in Persian
3 new Persian words: Nahar, Kabab, Kababe
Each word has its own page with how it is said and a way to remember it.
Words you bring back in "Fire up the grill": Gorosnam, Teshnam, Do
Words from earlier lessons that this one asks you to use again, so they stay.
15 kinds of practice in about 5 minutes
Every lesson mixes hearing, saying, typing and playing, so each phrase is used a few different ways before it is done.
Meet it
New word cards
Meet each new word with its sound, its meaning and a way to remember it.
Short explainers
A plain note on why a phrase works the way it does.
Listen
Listen and pick
Hear a word or line, then pick what it means.
Which word did you hear?
Two words that sound close and one clip: pick the one you heard.
Pick the word for the gap
Listen to a short line and choose the word that fills the gap.
Say it
Say it out loud
Say the line yourself, then rate how it went.
Type it
Put the letters in order
Rebuild a word from letters that were shuffled.
Type what you hear
Listen, then type the line in Finglish.
Build it
Build the sentence
Tap the words in order to build the line.
Name the picture
Match the picture with its word.
Combo rush
Tap the matches quickly and keep your combo going.
Think it through
Hand Me That
Give someone the right thing when they ask for it.
Odd one out
Spot the word that does not belong, or stick a word ending where it fits.
Word puzzles
Short puzzles: compare two lines, fill in a smudged letter or work out what a word is doing.
Real conversations
Reply to the text
Answer a friend's text message.