Module 7 · Lesson 5 of 7
Persian (Farsi) Lesson: What does it mean?
You will say
Be Farsi chi mishe?
How do you say it in Persian?
Your host, Karan
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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 "How do you say it in Persian?" and 1 more line in Persian
3 new Persian words: Areh, Yani chi?, Be Farsi chi mishe?
Each word has its own page with how it is said and a way to remember it.
Words you bring back in "What does it mean?": Baladam, Hasht, Noh
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
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.
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
Match the pairs
Join each Finglish word to its meaning.
Fill in the missing words
Complete a line with the words that are missing.
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.
One phrase, many places
Pick every place a phrase fits.
Real conversations
Reply to the text
Answer a friend's text message.
Answer the voice note
Listen to a voice note, then reply.