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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Persian Alphabet is case-free and has 32 letters. The letters come in one to four forms depending on were they happen; at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a work. In Persian, words are written from right to left while numbers are written from left to right. Persian is a writing…
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We all remember when we took a break from boring old lessons and watched a movie in class. Bring movies into your classroom with some engaging activities and student will sit back , relax and purposefully watch a movie to complete the activities. Movies are perfect for teaching vocabulary and slangs . Each time they…
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