Learn Persian

Start at the alphabet

The Persian on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 470 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Persian voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.

• 32letters
• 10digits
• 8pronunciation rules
• 300core words
• 60everyday phrases
• 60sentences

Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the course teaches them:

• short vowels — the short vowels a, e, o are usually not written — you fill them inدر — door
• joined letters — most letters join their neighbours and change shape by positionبابا — dad
• ث س ص — three different letters, all pronounced “s”سلام — hello

Then material that does not run out

Once you are reading, the level is the point. The Text Generator writes Persian at the CEFR level, length, topic and format you ask for, so the step up is a setting rather than a new book. Speaking scores you word by word as you read aloud. The Conversation Partner talks back. The Translator explains a sentence instead of replacing it, and the Corrector marks what you wrote and says why.

Above the on-ramp sits the Path — a station map from A1 to C2 with grammar, vocabulary and checkpoint stations — and Words & Notes, where everything you save comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule in seven quiz styles.

What Persian actually costs a beginner

The short vowels a, e and o are usually not written, so a reader supplies them from vocabulary — which means reading Persian is partly a memory task until the words are known, and the course builds that stock deliberately, with three hundred words before it asks for a sentence. Letters also change shape depending on whether they open, sit inside or close a word, and several distinct letters share a single sound: ث, س and ص are all s. Each of those is a card, spoken in a recorded Persian voice.