Module 13 · Lesson 5 of 9
Persian (Farsi) Lesson: What day is it today?
You will say
Salam! Emruz chand shanbast?
Hi! What day is it today?
Your host, Shirin
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- About 5 minutes, 23 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 "Hi! What day is it today?" and 2 more lines in Persian
3 new Persian words: Rooz, Emruz chand shanbast?, Rooze
Each word has its own page with how it is said and a way to remember it.
Words you bring back in "What day is it today?": Chaharshanbe, Khoobam, Yekshanbe
Words from earlier lessons that this one asks you to use again, so they stay.
14 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
Short explainers
A plain note on why a phrase works the way it does.
New word cards
Meet each new word with its sound, its meaning and a way to remember it.
Listen
Listen and pick
Hear a word or line, then pick what it means.
Quick listening round
A fast round of short clips to match with their meanings.
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 it from memory
Type a word or line you met earlier, with nothing on screen to help.
Build it
Build the sentence
Tap the words in order to build the line.
Swipe sort
Swipe each card into the group where it belongs.
Listen and build
Hear a line, then tap its words in order.
Fill in the missing words
Complete a line with the words that are missing.
Match the pairs
Join each Finglish word to its meaning.
Think it through
Word puzzles
Short puzzles: compare two lines, fill in a smudged letter or work out what a word is doing.
Real conversations
Answer the voice note
Listen to a voice note, then reply.