I spent 30 days doing Pimsleur Farsi on the Milan metro, then called my aunt in Tehran. She laughed. Here’s what the commute experiment revealed about Pimsleur’s strengths and blind spots for learning Persian.
Most Farsi courses hand you a list of vocabulary, make you conjugate verbs in a vacuum, and call it a
Learn Persian through real Iranian recipes. Each episode teaches a dish from scratch while building your Farsi vocabulary — 25 cooking verbs, table conversation phrases, and cultural context across 18 episodes.
The opening ghazal of Hafez’s Divan is the most famous poem in Persian literature. Every Iranian knows the first line. Here’s the Farsi script, transliteration, word-by-word breakdown, and why Iranians still quote it in daily conversation.
A1–B1 This is the hub of the Essential Vocabulary series Every textbook starts with the alphabet. Then colors. Then body
The farsi subjunctive swaps mi- for be- and shows up every time you express wants, doubts, or obligations. Here’s how it works in both formal and spoken Persian — plus the trigger words that tell you when to use it.
I was at a dinner party in Milan when an Italian friend tried to say my mom’s name. She said
I grew up hearing Hafez at the dinner table. My grandmother in Tehran would settle every family argument with a
Persian legal vocabulary for reading contracts in Iran. Key terms, clause structures, and what non-lawyers need to know before signing.
What are the Persian words for gay, lesbian, trans? A diaspora educator’s honest look at the words that exist, the words that don’t, and why Persian is still catching up.
