Lesson 1- Introduction
Lesson 1 – 10/02/2009
Some facts about Persian:
- Modern Persian uses the Arabic Alphabet. Although some sounds do not exist in Arabic. They are:
پ /p/
چ /c/
گ /g/
ژ /ĝ/
- There are 4 sounds in Persian which are represented by different letters. However, all of them are pronounced exactly the same:
| t | ت | ط | ||
| s | ث | س | ص | |
| h | ح | ه | ||
| z | ذ | ز | ض | ظ |
| q | غ | ق |
- Unlike English, Persian is written and read from right to left
- You already know hundreds of words in Persian:
soup , team , jet, computer, bad
Some words have been slightly modified to fit into Persian sound system:
captain, lamp, sandwich, class, radio
- In terms of relations between what you see and what you pronounce, Persian is much more consistent than English. Most sounds are represented by only one letter.
- The use of -suffix and -prefix is quite similar to English
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