Module 9 · Lesson 1 of 6
Persian (Farsi) Lesson: Frozen hands
You will say
Ghahve, garm, lotfan.
Coffee, warm, please.
Your host, Som
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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 "Coffee, warm, please" and 2 more lines in Persian
6 new Persian words: Garm, Sard, Dagh
Each word has its own page with how it is said and a way to remember it.
Words you bring back in "Frozen hands": Mikham, Nafahmidam, Fahmidam
Words from earlier lessons that this one asks you to use again, so they stay.
15 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
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.
Build it
Match the pairs
Join each Finglish word to its meaning.
Swipe sort
Swipe each card into the group where it belongs.
Remember the phrase
See a phrase for a moment, then rebuild 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.
Odd one out
Spot the word that does not belong, or stick a word ending where it fits.
Stack the cubes
Put the cubes in order by number or by clues, then fill the gap in the tower.
Real conversations
Reply to the text
Answer a friend's text message.
Answer the voice note
Listen to a voice note, then reply.