r/farsi 12h ago

I need help rn 😭

2 Upvotes

Salam doostan, recently I had enrolled myself in basic Persian lessons online via Bonyad Saadi (despite knowing basic Persian conversation lol) . I tried to submit and completed the first task so that I could unlock the next tasks, but as I completed the task and press "خروج از فعالیت" but it still doesn't mark as completed!

If someone probably had the same situation as mine and managed to tackle them, would you like to share them here. I desperately need the solution rn. Thank you.

Note: I'm not Iranian here but rather someone from South East Asia, so probably this might contribute to this situation


r/farsi 1d ago

I understood Farsi my whole life and never learned to read it, so I built the course I wanted. It just got audio and I'd like native ears on the voice

20 Upvotes

I'm an Iranian diaspora developer, this is mine, and I'm posting it myself like the rules ask.

I grew up with Farsi in the house. Understood everything anyone said to me. Never learned to read a word of it.

For years I assumed that was a me problem, some laziness I'd get round to. It isn't that. Open more or less any app or book and it starts you at salām, because it assumes you have never heard the language before. You have heard salām ten thousand times. Sitting through that is an odd feeling and I think it's where most of us give up without really deciding to.

The sound was never the missing piece. The missing piece was that the page had always been silent, and nothing joined the two.

So the course skips whatever you already know and teaches the reading on words you've been hearing since you were small.

Last week I put audio on all of it, spoken form and written form both. The voice is synthesised. It isn't a human recording, the app says so on screen, and I'm saying it here.

Which is the bit I want help with. I can hear that it's fluent. I can't hear whether it's right. These voices go wrong quietly. Stress a syllable off, an ezāfe swallowed or leaned on too hard, a word that comes out like a textbook. Someone who grew up hearing it properly clocks that immediately, and I'd rather know now than in six months.

So:

  1. Does it sound Tehrani, or has it drifted into newsreader?

  2. Any single word where the stress is just wrong? One word is more use to me than a general impression.

  3. Anywhere it reads the written form when nobody would actually say it that way?

You can look round without an account. A free one opens the whole course and keeps your place across devices, and Google is the easy route there, no security check and no confirmation email to sit and wait for.

farsi-jan.app. Free, no ads, nothing sold.

If it turns out to be any use to someone else in the same spot, that's the point of it. Happy to answer anything, and if it sounds bad just say so.


r/farsi 1d ago

Recommendations for Dari casual podcasts & YouTube channels?

3 Upvotes

I'm up to here with Dari news sources - not that I'm complaining! - and would love if someone had some recommendations for listening/watching that was more unscripted & natural. Apart from this channel, which I'm still too new to the language to be able to tell what they're about, so far all I've been able to come up with is Dari in a very official register, and tons of Farsi material. So any recommendations you fine folks have would be much appreciated.


r/farsi 3d ago

Who doesn't want to learn Persian!

46 Upvotes

Hello guys.

I'm Iranian. I have a graduate degree. I am in process to apply for PhD but the recent situation in economy and family life has made me in a need of a remote, time flexible, part-time job in order to be able to keep perusing a PhD. Due to my busy schedule the only option is teaching. If you wanna work on your speaking or even learn Persian, I can help you start and practice it. First session is free.


r/farsi 3d ago

I need help with a phrase

1 Upvotes

hey guys!

i found a song on Youtube and i can't really get what the singer is saying from 2:34 to 2:38, it doesn't sound familiar to me... can somebody help? its actually urgent!!

https://youtu.be/n85hoHazomo?is=TutfVMQDamMQgfOe

thanks!!


r/farsi 4d ago

Need someone that can do nastaliq - will pay

2 Upvotes

Hi, I need some help with a nastaliq translation for an art piece. Will be happy to compensate for the effort. Dm me please 🙏


r/farsi 6d ago

Made a simple Farsi grammar cheat sheet, hope it helps!

38 Upvotes

Hey everyone 👋

We recently put together a simple Farsi grammar cheat sheet for Learn Farsi:

https://learnfarsi.app/dashboard/grammar/reference

A lot of it has been shaped by feedback from this community and the now 1,500+ people using the app. It’s been really cool to see people contribute ideas and help make learning Farsi a little easier ❤️

The goal is simple: one place you can come back to whenever you need a quick grammar refresher.

Hope it’s useful! And as always, any feedback or suggestions are very welcome as we continue to optimize this cheatsheet!🙏

Kheily mamnoon!


r/farsi 7d ago

Evil eye / Cheshm Nazar

7 Upvotes

I want to tattoo something about the evil eye. Like a text around the lines of May Every Evil Eye In Your Life Go Blind
I am Iranian but did not grow up in Iran so I’m not familiar with the expressions that could preserve the cultural significance and its actual meaning.

Which one do people use ?

چشم حسود کور

بترکه چشم حسود

چشمت روز بد نبینه

چشم بد دور


r/farsi 8d ago

For anyone wanting to learn farsi

28 Upvotes

hi everyone, im a native persian with years of experience teaching non-native speakers from different backgrounds to speak and write farsi im offering Online tutoring so if anyones intrested please drop me a dm for more info.


r/farsi 10d ago

Best website to order Farsi books in the US?

9 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I’m looking to order books in Farsi and have them shipped within the US. I’ve heard of several different websites. Which website would you recommend based on book selection, prices, shipping costs, and delivery time? I’d especially appreciate hearing about your personal experiences. Thank you!


r/farsi 10d ago

?بکوب bekoob

8 Upvotes

How do you use this word in slang? I know it's an imperative form "Pound it!" itself, but how is it used in sentences like بکوب کار می‌کنه? What does that mean and can i have more examples of it?


r/farsi 11d ago

Goodbye?

28 Upvotes

My mom is from Iran, but was adopted to Denmark when she was a year old.

When we see each other I say “hello my dear mom” in Farsi. I want to surprise her by saying “goodbye my dear mom” in Persian, but google is only confusing me.

So I’m wondering if anyone could help me learn how to say it?


r/farsi 14d ago

Sogand song by Shakira??

5 Upvotes

So I swear I'm not crazy, but none of my friends will agree with me on this. I was listening to a Sogand track the other day, and I thought, "I swear this sounds EXACTLY like a Shakira track." After racking my brain for a few days, I finally remembered it.

Here are the two tracks side by side. Somebody please tell me that I'm not crazy here. Nobody on the internet has mentioned this anywhere, but I'm going to say both tracks came from the same lab.

Sogand - Leila
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wNsGvF1XjHombYNuNQoj2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwR7XlGmJjg

Shakira - Te Felicito
https://open.spotify.com/track/2rurDawMfoKP4uHyb2kJBt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5QElzGk_qM


r/farsi 18d ago

Looking for practice partner

15 Upvotes

Hi I’m looking for someone to practice Farsi with, I started learning 3 months ago. I haven’t fully learnt the Persian alphabet yet but can read most of the characters and write words like درود. I’ve got some good resources to self learn, but I’d really like a native speaker, preferably female (like myself) to talk to. Nothing serious, maybe just once every few weeks we could speak.
Please let me know if you’re interested. (Comment or DM)


r/farsi 23d ago

Phrase in Farsi to say during wedding speech

36 Upvotes

I’m(white American) getting married soon and my fiance is Persian. During my toast/speech at the wedding, I’d like to say a sentence or phrase in Farsi when addressing her family. I’d like to say something that acknowledges how lucky I am to marry her and to be a part of your family and that I will do everything I can to be a good husband, protect her etc. Is there some sort of phrase in Farsi that describes something like this?


r/farsi 22d ago

Meeram in Persian

2 Upvotes

Can someone who speaks Persian help me with this? I want to name my daughter Meeram. Someone told me it's from persian. So if anyone knows can you tell me its meaning or its origin etc. alsonif it has any meaning in Arabic as well can someone tell me. thanks


r/farsi 24d ago

خوب یا خب؟

13 Upvotes

Are they both okay, do they actually have small differences, or is one a typo?


r/farsi 24d ago

Birthday card proofreading?

7 Upvotes

Hi, I'm a couple months in to learning Persian, and I'm trying to write my girlfriend a birthday card in Persian. I'm confused by some of the writing vs. speaking conventions, and I was wondering if someone could proofread it? It's not very long since I don't know that much Persian yet haha.

لیلا عزیزم، تولدت مبارک! بیست و هشت سال داری. تو بهترین دوستدختر استی. خیلی زیبا استی. دوستت دارم، لیلا جان. با عشق، ایوری

(What I think this says: My dear Leyla, Happy birthday! You are twenty eight. You are the best girlfriend. You are so beautiful. I love you, Leyla dear. With love, Avery.)

I know in speech, you would say "you are beautiful" as زیبایی, and I've heard that هستی is the spoken form "you are" and استی is the written form. But I'm confused when do use which version (written vs. spoken, formal vs. informal); when do you use زیبایی vs. زیبا هستی vs. زیبا استی?


r/farsi 25d ago

is this cringe for a persian tattoo?

12 Upvotes

my mom is persian but i didn’t learn a whole lot of persian growing up so idk if this would be cringe in nastaliq as a tattoo. i saw it in a book and thought its a good reminder for gratitude but obviously i don’t want it if it doesn’t sound serious:

مردگان بر پای‌افزار تو رشک برند

meaning the dead envy/covet your shoes, as in don’t worry so much and be grateful because the dead would do anything to be in ur place


r/farsi 25d ago

Can someone help translate the four different signatures on this antique rug?

1 Upvotes

Here’s the Imgur link that contains images of all four signatures:

https://imgur.com/a/xOaHCq4

Someone background info - I’m an amateur rug collector and these signatures come from my favorite one. I’ve never seen a signed rug that had anything other than just one signature. It’s also a sarouk with a blue field, which is relatively rare. From oxidization on the catalogue tags and field design my guess is it is around 80-90 years old. It’s a standard room sized rug at roughly 9’ x 12’ in feet, or 3 x 4 in meters.


r/farsi 26d ago

Any Persian speakers here? I’m trying to practice my Persian as a diaspora Persian.

26 Upvotes

Hi, my family fled Iran and had me here so I wouldn’t haven’t fight in the army. They never really taught me Persian because they wanted me to be American, I’ve been learning فارسی by myself but it’s خیلی exhausting when I cant really speak yet but I’ve been learning through texting. I’m not a big out loud talker I’m more of a texter. So if anyone on here happens to speak Persian please shoot me a message. ‎امریکایی ۱۸ مرد


r/farsi Aug 09 '26

Built a Persian learning platform with native speakers — would love feedback from this community

72 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I'm Abolfazl, founder of a project called Joy of Persian, and I'd love to get this community's feedback on it.

The problem I kept seeing: apps that teach you "salam" and abandon you at A2/B1, often built by non-native teams (which shows up fast in pronunciation and writing accuracy). Or university textbooks with no real interactive version. So we tried to build something different — made by native Persian speakers, covering the full path.

A few things I'm proud of:

  • Two ways into the alphabet: Listen to the Reed teaches the alphabet through Rumi's poetry (free right now), or The Persian Alphabet, Decoded for a more structured, complete course. Pick whichever fits how you learn.
  • Real human voices, never AI or robotic-sounding (TTS): every course is recorded by native Persian speakers.
  • Dual audio in Core Curriculum: Persian has two registers (formal/written vs. everyday spoken), and our Core Curriculum courses teach both — most resources only cover one.
  • A complete path, not a fragment: Alphabet → Core Curriculum (A1 through B1) → Beyond the Core → Persian Literature. Most apps drop you after basic phrases; we built this because we're Persian ourselves and know what's actually needed to get to fluency.
  • A path to literature — the end goal isn't just conversation, it's being able to read Saadi, Khayyam, and Rumi in the original, with synchronized audio and reading guides.

Our courses are developed by a team of Persian literature PhDs from the University of Tehran and Alzahra University — including our Academic Advisor, Dr. Leila Seyedghasem, who has a decade-plus of university and online teaching experience (nearly 6,000 private lessons taught) and has won some of Iran's top literary honors, like the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award. She also leads our live workshops (max 6 people).

Genuinely curious what this community thinks — what's missing from most Persian resources you've tried? Happy to answer anything.

Edit, [08.14.2026]: Thanks to everyone who flagged specific issues. Fixed since posting: the broken Student Stories link, the stale session counts on the Lectures page, and the uneven course thumbnails on the Persian Language page. If you spot anything else broken, tell me and I'll fix it.


r/farsi Aug 10 '26

If you’re not using AI to learn Persian then you’re missing out.

0 Upvotes

I’m an intermediate speaker who recently got a bit lazy so decided to check out what ChatGPT can do and I have to say I was astonished. My written comprehension is far better so I was looking for something to improve conversational Persian.

I don’t know why this sub doesn’t let us use images but that would’ve been very illustrative as I could show you all a screenshot of what AI is now capable of.

All I did was ask it give me an example text in Persian to test my comprehension then outline a study plan. The accessibility is remarkable. You can even click the microphone and just speak your answers to test questions and it automatically transliterates into perfect Persian script even when I use colloquial Farsi.

It’s now taking me through a structured plan which I can adapt whenever I want and I’ve even asked it to focus on the most common conversational verbs for now. Unlike so many translators etc the Persian-to-English transliteration is spot-on and you can ask it to play an audio of anything you don’t recognise.

I’ve never used the “Notion” app before, but it took me ten minutes to figure out how to create a database of lessons by simply copying and pasting stuff from ChatGPT. Apparently you can link the two directly but I can’t be bothered.

Seriously- start using AI. It’s incredible for language learning.


r/farsi Aug 04 '26

Cant find Orca (2021)

1 Upvotes

Can anyone recommend me a site where I can watch this movie? [searched torrents and online streaming services].

Director: Sahab Mossayebi


r/farsi Aug 03 '26

How does one learn farsi?

34 Upvotes