Learn Farsi
For children of the diaspora, partners, friends, and anyone who wants to read and write Persian. Start with the alphabet.
Lessons
More lessons are on the way: greetings and everyday phrases, numbers, and reading practice. Tell us what you’d like to learn
A full Learn Farsi course is on the way
Step-by-step lessons in reading, writing and speaking, for adults and children. Join the waitlist and we’ll tell you when it opens; the two optional questions help us build it around you.
Practise with
- Farsi keyboardType the letters and learn where each one lives on a keyboard.
- Finglish to FarsiWrite Finglish and see how each word is spelled in Persian.
- Persian calendarThe names of the months and days, and today’s date.
- Nastaliq writerSee any word in Nastaliq, Persian’s classic calligraphic hand.
- Fale HafezRead a ghazal of Hafez: reading practice with a centuries-old tradition.
About Persian
Persian, or Farsi, is spoken by more than 100 million people in Iran, Afghanistan (where it’s called Dari) and Tajikistan (Tajik). It’s written right to left in an alphabet adapted from Arabic, but it’s an Indo-European language, a distant cousin of English, with a friendly grammar: no grammatical gender and no articles like “the”.