Module 8 · Lesson 5 of 8
Persian (Farsi) Lesson: Baba Bozorg's sugar cube
You will say
Ghand mikhayn?
Do you want sugar?
Your host, Sara
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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 "Do you want sugar?" and 2 more lines in Persian
3 new Persian words: Ghand, Shir, Shire
Each word has its own page with how it is said and a way to remember it.
Words you bring back in "Baba Bozorg's sugar cube": Mikhay, Mikhayn, Teshnam
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.
Listen
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
Name the picture
Match the picture with its word.
Fill in the missing words
Complete a line with the words that are missing.
Match the pairs
Join each Finglish word to its meaning.
Swipe sort
Swipe each card into the group where it belongs.
Listen and build
Hear a line, then tap its words in order.
Think it through
Word puzzles
Short puzzles: compare two lines, fill in a smudged letter or work out what a word is doing.
Find the part in the message
Tap the part of a message that says what you are looking for.
Real conversations
React like a friend
Give the short reactions friends give while someone is talking.
Answer the call
Pick up a phone call and choose or say your replies.