Free Persian alphabet and first words

What's inside

• The letters and their shapesAll 32 letters in alphabet order with an example word each, the four letters Persian adds (پ چ ژ گ), and the groups that sound the same, so you learn the spelling with the word. Then how a letter changes at the start, middle and end of a word, the seven letters that never join forward, the half-space in می‌خواهم, and the short vowels subtitles leave out.
• How words workNo gender at all (او is he and she), no word for the, the little -e that links words (ketāb-e man, my book), the verb at the end, polite شما and friendly تو, and is as است or just -e.
• 168 words, then show wordsGreetings like سلام, مرسی and خواهش می‌کنم, family, numbers in Persian digits, food like چای and نان, places and verbs. Then reactions like وای and باشه, taarof explained, what to call people, and ten sentences to read before you check.

How to use it

1. Read the letters page aloud, one card at a time. The letters that sound the same are easy: say them all the same way.
2. Look at the shapes page, don't learn it. You'll start to see the core shape of each letter as you read words.
3. Learn five words a day. Cover the romanization and the grey English on the last page, read each sentence aloud, then slide the paper down to check.
4. Watch something in Persian and catch the words you know. Hover any word in Persian subtitles with Kitsumi to see what it means.

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