Sa’di’s “Bani Adam” is inscribed at the United Nations — but most people who share it can’t read the original Farsi. Here’s the full poem broken down word by word: script, transliteration, translation, grammar, and why it still cuts after 800 years.
A1 Part of the Essential Vocabulary series I once watched a tourist in Tehran try to pay for a taxi.
Easy Persian by Ahooie is great for week one. After that, you need more. Honest review with alternatives.
Farsi relative clauses use ke where English uses who, which, and that. One word handles every function — plus resumptive pronouns and the spoken shortcuts Iranians actually use.
An American student said ایرانی as i-RÂ-ni. It should be i-râ-NI. That single shifted stress turned a natural word into
The Routledge Introductory Persian Course is an academic workhorse. Full review of what works, what drags, and who it suits.
Iranian workplace Farsi is its own dialect. Learn professional Farsi workplace phrases for disagreeing with your boss, pushing back politely, and surviving meetings — the Iranian way.
The six registers of Persian from street slang to archaic literary. Learn when and how to switch between formal and casual Farsi.
Persian of Iran Today teaches both formal and spoken registers. Here is what makes it unique and where it stumbles.
Persian for diaspora kids is its own category — you’re not a beginner, but nobody built a course for the weird gaps your parents left you with.
