Module 4 · Lesson 4 of 9
Persian (Farsi) Lesson: Your mom? Your dad?
You will say
Mamanet-e?
Is that your mom?
Your host, Som
Open "Your mom? Your dad?" with Full Access
- 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.
- Part of Full Access. Module 1 is free with no signup.
2 new Persian words: Mamanet-e, Babat-e
Each word has its own page with how it is said and a way to remember it.
Words you bring back in "Your mom? Your dad?": Salam, Baleh, Khoobam
Words from earlier lessons that this one asks you to use again, so they stay.
12 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
Which word did you hear?
Two words that sound close and one clip: pick the one you heard.
Quick listening round
A fast round of short clips to match with their meanings.
Listen and pick
Hear a word or line, then pick what it means.
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
Fill in the fridge note
Complete the note stuck on the fridge.
Think it through
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.
Real conversations
Answer the call
Pick up a phone call and choose or say your replies.