Can someone who speaks Persian help me with this? I want to name my daughter Meeram. Someone told me it's from persian. So if anyone knows can you tell me its meaning or its origin etc. alsonif it has any meaning in Arabic as well can someone tell me. thanks
I’m(white American) getting married soon and my fiance is Persian. During my toast/speech at the wedding, I’d like to say a sentence or phrase in Farsi when addressing her family. I’d like to say something that acknowledges how lucky I am to marry her and to be a part of your family and that I will do everything I can to be a good husband, protect her etc. Is there some sort of phrase in Farsi that describes something like this?
Are they both okay, do they actually have small differences, or is one a typo?
Guys i really need the serie of Bamdade Khomar translated to English or Arabic do you know where i can find it ??
the one in Youtube is not correct at all it doesn’t follow what is being said i think it was just the transcript but it doesn’t allow u to understand what’s being said 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Hi, I'm a couple months in to learning Persian, and I'm trying to write my girlfriend a birthday card in Persian. I'm confused by some of the writing vs. speaking conventions, and I was wondering if someone could proofread it? It's not very long since I don't know that much Persian yet haha.
لیلا عزیزم، تولدت مبارک! بیست و هشت سال داری. تو بهترین دوستدختر استی. خیلی زیبا استی. دوستت دارم، لیلا جان. با عشق، ایوری
(What I think this says: My dear Leyla, Happy birthday! You are twenty eight. You are the best girlfriend. You are so beautiful. I love you, Leyla dear. With love, Avery.)
I know in speech, you would say "you are beautiful" as زیبایی, and I've heard that هستی is the spoken form "you are" and استی is the written form. But I'm confused when do use which version (written vs. spoken, formal vs. informal); when do you use زیبایی vs. زیبا هستی vs. زیبا استی?
Hi, my family fled Iran and had me here so I wouldn’t haven’t fight in the army. They never really taught me Persian because they wanted me to be American, I’ve been learning فارسی by myself but it’s خیلی exhausting when I cant really speak yet but I’ve been learning through texting. I’m not a big out loud talker I’m more of a texter. So if anyone on here happens to speak Persian please shoot me a message. امریکایی ۱۸ مرد
my mom is persian but i didn’t learn a whole lot of persian growing up so idk if this would be cringe in nastaliq as a tattoo. i saw it in a book and thought its a good reminder for gratitude but obviously i don’t want it if it doesn’t sound serious:
مردگان بر پایافزار تو رشک برند
meaning the dead envy/covet your shoes, as in don’t worry so much and be grateful because the dead would do anything to be in ur place
Here’s the Imgur link that contains images of all four signatures:
Someone background info - I’m an amateur rug collector and these signatures come from my favorite one. I’ve never seen a signed rug that had anything other than just one signature. It’s also a sarouk with a blue field, which is relatively rare. From oxidization on the catalogue tags and field design my guess is it is around 80-90 years old. It’s a standard room sized rug at roughly 9’ x 12’ in feet, or 3 x 4 in meters.
Hey everyone! I'm Abolfazl, founder of a project called Joy of Persian, and I'd love to get this community's feedback on it.
The problem I kept seeing: apps that teach you "salam" and abandon you at A2/B1, often built by non-native teams (which shows up fast in pronunciation and writing accuracy). Or university textbooks with no real interactive version. So we tried to build something different — made by native Persian speakers, covering the full path.
A few things I'm proud of:
Our courses are developed by a team of Persian literature PhDs from the University of Tehran and Alzahra University — including our Academic Advisor, Dr. Leila Seyedghasem, who has a decade-plus of university and online teaching experience (nearly 6,000 private lessons taught) and has won some of Iran's top literary honors, like the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award. She also leads our live workshops (max 6 people).
Genuinely curious what this community thinks — what's missing from most Persian resources you've tried? Happy to answer anything.
I have a very basic grasp of the alphabet and can currently only read/write by piecing together letters, but would like to learn to read/write more fluently. What book is best for those who can already speak Farsi fluently?
Thanks in advance!
I’m an intermediate speaker who recently got a bit lazy so decided to check out what ChatGPT can do and I have to say I was astonished. My written comprehension is far better so I was looking for something to improve conversational Persian.
I don’t know why this sub doesn’t let us use images but that would’ve been very illustrative as I could show you all a screenshot of what AI is now capable of.
All I did was ask it give me an example text in Persian to test my comprehension then outline a study plan. The accessibility is remarkable. You can even click the microphone and just speak your answers to test questions and it automatically transliterates into perfect Persian script even when I use colloquial Farsi.
It’s now taking me through a structured plan which I can adapt whenever I want and I’ve even asked it to focus on the most common conversational verbs for now. Unlike so many translators etc the Persian-to-English transliteration is spot-on and you can ask it to play an audio of anything you don’t recognise.
I’ve never used the “Notion” app before, but it took me ten minutes to figure out how to create a database of lessons by simply copying and pasting stuff from ChatGPT. Apparently you can link the two directly but I can’t be bothered.
Seriously- start using AI. It’s incredible for language learning.