The Art of the Iranian House Visit: Tea, Tarof, and What They’re Really Asking
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Persian News for Learners: 5 Simplified Articles
Read simplified Persian news articles written for Farsi learners. Five real topics covering science, sports, culture, and more at B1-B2 level.
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Ordering Food, Asking Directions, Taking a Taxi: 3 Survival Dialogues in Farsi
Three Farsi survival dialogues: ordering food, asking directions, and negotiating a taxi. Formal and spoken forms side by side.
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Persian Has No Grammatical Gender (And What That Actually Means)
I’ve been living in Italy for a few years now, and there is one thing about Italian that I will
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Why Iranians Don’t Use Future Tense (And What They Do Instead)
Every Persian textbook will teach you the future tense. The construction is: the verb khāstan (to want) conjugated in present
Farsi for Diplomats and Security Professionals
A practical guide to Persian for diplomats, intelligence analysts, and security professionals. How Iranian officials use language as strategy — and how to decode it.
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10 Persian Concepts That Don’t Exist in English
Persian has words for emotions, social dynamics, and ways of being that English simply can’t capture in a single term. These 10 untranslatable Farsi words reveal how language shapes the Iranian mind.
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Spaced Repetition for Farsi: How to Remember 1,000 Persian Words
Most people learn a Persian word, forget it three days later, and learn it again. Spaced repetition breaks this cycle — but only if you set it up for Farsi’s specific challenges. Here’s how.
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The 50 Farsi Phrases That’ll Make Your Partner’s Mom Love You
These 50 farsi phrases for family situations are the ones that actually matter — the specific words and sentences that’ll make your Iranian partner’s mom stop mid-sentence and turn to her husband with that look that says “this one’s a keeper.”
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Is Farsi Related to Hindi? The Indo-European Link
Farsi vs Hindi — these two languages are genuinely related, and the connection runs deeper than most people realize. From shared ancient roots to centuries of Mughal influence, here’s how Persian and Hindi are connected.