Farsi (Persian) Level 1

Level 1 Examples

This set will help you:

• Build vocabulary and language basics.
• Spell and write accurately.
• Speak without a script.
• Retain what you’ve learned.
• Read and understand in your new language.

Sample topics include:

• Age, family relations, household items
• Introductions and greetings
• Times of day and calendar terms
• Buying and selling

About Farsi

Farsi, or Persian, is the official language of Iran. It is spoken by more than 70 million people, including a sizable minority population located in the United States and Canada.

Farsi Learning Tips

• Farsi is written and read from right to left; with the exception of numbers, which are written from left to right.
• In Farsi, certain vowels are not usually written. Rosetta Stone will help you learn how to determine the word from the context of the sentence.
• Speakers of Farsi will often omit the subject of the sentence.
• Placement of stress within a word is important to convey a word’s meaning. Rosetta Stone helps you acquire proper pronunciation through exposure to native speech, useful practice, and corrective feedback.
• Most Farsi letters change shape depending on whether they occur at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.
• There is no upper or lower case in Farsi.
• In Farsi, there are formal and informal ways to address others, depending on the age of the speaker and his or her relationship to the person being addressed.
• Numbers in Farsi are written with modified Hindi numerals.
• Farsi does not categorize words into masculine and feminine. It also does not have separate words for ‘he’ and ‘she.’
• Farsi verbs have many forms of past tense, including a form for an action recently completed and a form for one that has been completed for a long time.