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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How to learn a language with movies?
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…
Continue ReadingLearn Persian Through Subtitled Movies and Discussion Questions
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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