Module 8 · Lesson 3 of 8
Persian (Farsi) Lesson: The polite way
You will say
Ab mikhayn?
Do you want water?
Your host, Sara
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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 "Do you want water?" and 1 more line in Persian
1 new Persian word: Mikhayn
Each word has its own page with how it is said and a way to remember it.
Words you bring back in "The polite way": Mikham, Ab, Mikonin
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.
Listen
Listen and pick
Hear a word or line, then pick what it means.
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 it in Finglish
See the English and type the line in Finglish.
Build it
Match the pairs
Join each Finglish word to its meaning.
Swipe sort
Swipe each card into the group where it belongs.
Fill in the missing words
Complete a line with the words that are missing.
Think it through
Crack the Lock
Set the dials to build the right word for the moment.
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.
Real conversations
Answer the voice note
Listen to a voice note, then reply.
Reply to the text
Answer a friend's text message.