Module 13 · Lesson 8 of 9
Persian (Farsi) Lesson: The garden notebook
You will say
Chaharshanbe, panjshanbe, jome.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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 "Wednesday, Thursday, Friday" and 1 more line in Persian
Words you bring back in "The garden notebook": Hafte, Shanbe, Yekshanbe
Words from earlier lessons that this one asks you to use again, so they stay.
18 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.
Listen
Quick listening round
A fast round of short clips to match with their meanings.
Which word did you hear?
Two words that sound close and one clip: pick the one you heard.
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.
Type it letter by letter
Type a word in Finglish as you read it or hear it.
Type it from memory
Type a word or line you met earlier, with nothing on screen to help.
Build it
Fill in the missing words
Complete a line with the words that are missing.
Crossword
Finish a small crossword with the Finglish words you know.
Listen and build
Hear a line, then tap its words in order.
Match the pairs
Join each Finglish word to its meaning.
Think it through
One phrase, many places
Pick every place a phrase fits.
Word puzzles
Short puzzles: compare two lines, fill in a smudged letter or work out what a word is doing.
Crack the Lock
Set the dials to build the right word for the moment.
Find the part in the message
Tap the part of a message that says what you are looking for.
Odd one out
Spot the word that does not belong, or stick a word ending where it fits.
Real conversations
React like a friend
Give the short reactions friends give while someone is talking.
Reply to the text
Answer a friend's text message.