A language’s alphabet is its building blocks. Trying to learn how to write in a language without first learning its alphabet is a bit like trying to build a brick house without touching the individual bricks! In order to learn how to read, write , pronounce the letters in the Persian Alphabet or any other…
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Proficiency is measured in terms of receptive and expressive language skills, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, and other areas that demonstrate language abilities. There are four domains to language proficiency: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Your language proficiency level can be measured by one of the following scales: ACTFL -American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Proficiency Scale IRL -Interagency Language Roundtable…
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Sizdah Bedar- Nature’s Day ”Sizdah bedar”, Nature’s day or 13th day of Nowruz is the 13th day of month of Farvardin and is the last day of Nowruz festivities. On this day, Iranians go out and have a picnic in nature. “Sizdah” means thirteen, and “bedar”, means to get rid of. In general, it means…
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Movies and videos can play a valuable role in the education process, as long as teachers and educators are utilizing them correctly. In order to learn a language with movies you need to stimulate student interest and get them talking and thinking. Ask the students to stay awake and pay attention and give them some discussion…
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“Chaharshanbe Suri,” or “Red Wednesday,” marks the eve of the last Wednesday of the Solar calendar right before Persian New year and vernal equinox. The festival is a warm welcome to Nowruz, Persian New Year, and it is celebrated on Tuesday night by jumping over bonfires in hope of cleaning themselves of all the misfortunes,…
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If you want to have a pretty decent accent and your speech being littered with native sounding interjections, and sit amongst a group of native speakers and follow most of their conversation, you can achieve that by actively watching a foreign movie. Watching movies will help you to expose yourself to cultural aspects of the…
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Persian and Arabic share the same script. Persian has borrowed a huge amount of vocabulary from Arabic, and has contributed back a lot of words. Based on the guidelines Arabic is harder than Persian. Persian language’s level of difficulty can be measured by the time that it takes an average learner to reach a certain degree…
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