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Persian Writing – Useful Drills 1

As you know, practice makes perfect! Every week, along with each lesson, you are given some words to practice. I know that, as a beginner, you will find it difficult to read the entire words by yourself. Therefore, you are not asked to either read or write these words at this stage. Please do not try to pronounce these words on your own or you will remain in an insolvable confusion for good. All you have to do is identify the letters you have already studied. So, first go to the This week and study the new lesson carefully. Then click on the Useful drills button to get connected to this page. On this page you will find some words that seem quite stranger to you at the first glance. Nevertheless, you must at least be able to recognise the letters you have just studied on This week. And this is all I want you to do.

Persian Useful Drills
NOTE: as you see in the following words, there are no symbols (signs) on style=”> or under the letters. We, as beginners, use these symbols during our lessons to learn the correct pronunciation of the words. Later, after you got enough familiarity with the words and the way they are pronounced you would find it redundant to use these symbols with letters, except for some ambiguous words that are not used very often. I have eliminated these symbols on purpose to let you see the real Persian words that take no symbols with them.

Note 1: please pronounce the requested letters with /e/ sound. /e/ as in bed.

Note 2: it is recommended that you visit Let’s Write page first before doing these exercises. It will certainly help you a lot with detecting the letters.

Questions:

In the following words, how many. do you detect?

  1. Big letter ‘B’?
  2. Small letter ‘b’?
  3. Big letter ‘P’?
  4. Small letter ‘p’?
  5. Big letter ‘T’?
  6. Small letter ‘t’?

Please try to answer the questions first. Then, if you want to be sure, find the correct answers at the bottom of the following words.

The answers:

  1. 6 letters.
  2. 7 letters.
  3. 0 letters.
  4. 7 letters.
  5. 2 letters.
  6. 10 letters.

Pictorial answers:

1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6

Lesson 1

53 Comments

  1. Farzaneh
    April 23, 2012 @ 4:09 pm

    In addition to this drill, I have written the words down and attempted to learn what is written. However, I do not know how to correctly pronounce the word and and its translation. For an example, how do I know that axe is translated to tabar. I was reading it as “ta-be-rr”. Please help me help myself.

    Best Regards,
    Farzaneh

    • Amir
      April 24, 2012 @ 1:58 pm

      I’ve been trying to teach my son Persian since 2007. It is really difficult as he is not between Iranian but i never gave up. I think the key of success is repeating.

      • Amir
        April 24, 2012 @ 2:01 pm

        If you need more help u can email me and i can share my experience with u.

        • nobahar
          April 25, 2012 @ 10:06 am

          salam khaste nabashid man daneshjoeh arshad zabana baray proposal mikham dar mored namehaye irani etelaty darin (format how write )be man send konid montazer emailtan hastam motsharekeram

        • bella
          May 19, 2013 @ 6:54 pm

          Hi i am 10 years old and my family is persian and i would love to speak and write farsy if you can help i would love it.My email address is [email protected].

          Thank You

    • Hassan H
      April 25, 2012 @ 9:17 pm

      Dear Farzaneh
      You are right; I should have used those ‘signs’ to make pronunciation easier.
      I will try to fix this as soon as possible.

      Also, Amir jan,
      many thanks for your support.

      Best,
      Hassan

  2. Kia
    May 5, 2012 @ 4:43 pm

    Hassan jan,

    Thank you so much for these lessons, they are truly the best resource possible! Your dedication and kindness are greatly appreciated.

    • Hassan H
      May 7, 2012 @ 7:10 pm

      Thanks Kia

  3. Felix the Persian Admirer
    June 1, 2012 @ 8:02 am

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  4. Dani
    June 13, 2012 @ 2:34 pm

    Thank you for the great site! It’s perfect. Can you do one for Arabic? :)

  5. Charanjeet
    June 30, 2012 @ 12:18 am

    Thanks Alot !!! I have successfully learnt first letter

  6. Charanjeet Singh
    June 30, 2012 @ 12:20 am

    Book marked !!!! …..ThankS alot

  7. Riccardo
    July 13, 2012 @ 10:46 am

    Salam.
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  8. shree
    July 18, 2012 @ 11:23 pm

    just i found this page and i really appreciated it..I’m a Malaysian Indian girl.now i want to learn this language to communicate with some of the friends in Iran..
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  9. Sanaz Shaghaghi
    August 15, 2012 @ 6:08 am

    Hello i was wondering what this phrase means and if Like the Big B is just A b not a word or letter im lost. :o

    • Camal Al Ouali
      August 15, 2012 @ 7:16 pm

      The big B is ب , its when the B is alone, not attached to other letters, and the little is when its attached

    • Ata
      September 21, 2012 @ 9:28 pm

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  10. Mina
    September 1, 2012 @ 2:00 am

    The big “B” appears only at the end. The small “b” can be first or in the middle, but never last.

  11. shafaq
    September 3, 2012 @ 1:38 pm

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    September 6, 2012 @ 7:10 pm

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  13. ali
    October 6, 2012 @ 9:23 pm

    thank you so much for your great effort.

  14. Dee
    October 12, 2012 @ 7:55 pm

    I did the exercise rather quickly. Thanks for the great explanations.

  15. Cyrus
    December 29, 2012 @ 1:08 pm

    God bless the person behind this site! I’m an Iranian American trying to connect to my heritage and this is probably the best site for learning Farsi. Thanks so much!

  16. Anees
    January 3, 2013 @ 6:45 am

    Thank you very much. Since I am Pakistani it was very easy to learn first lesson since it is similar to Urdu. lets hope for best in future.

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    January 15, 2013 @ 10:49 am

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    February 13, 2013 @ 4:50 am

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  19. Nicole
    May 2, 2013 @ 8:31 pm

    I have a question, I am learning this language to communicate better with some friends. I wanted to know if my friends in Afghanistan will also be able to understand me better or is the dialect too different?

    • Myfanwy
      June 10, 2013 @ 11:38 pm

      Your Afghan friends will understand just fine if they are Dari speakers. The pronunciation is a little different, but not too much.

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    June 27, 2013 @ 7:55 pm

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  21. Den
    September 6, 2013 @ 12:46 pm

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  22. Martina
    October 12, 2013 @ 5:01 pm

    i dont’ find the 2 big letters T ! :-( help me please!

  23. Martina
    October 12, 2013 @ 5:03 pm

    i have found sorry ahah !!!

  24. Liane Heuck
    October 13, 2013 @ 1:27 pm

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  25. Hussain Istan
    November 29, 2013 @ 3:23 pm

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    December 9, 2013 @ 11:41 am

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  27. Natalia
    January 3, 2014 @ 12:23 pm

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  28. Amirhossein
    January 19, 2014 @ 4:03 am

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  29. Di Liddelow
    March 1, 2014 @ 4:19 am

    Thank you, the persian lesson number 1, was very clear and simple. Very helpful

  30. Erik
    March 1, 2014 @ 10:24 pm

    Hello,

    I just finished Lesson 1 thoroughly and found it quite useful. I do have a question that came up while I was doing these drills.

    Since words are written from right to left, why does the big letter come at the end of the word? Do Persian big letters serve a different purpose than English big letters? How does this affect pronunciation? From an English speaking perspective, it appears as though the end letter of a word is capitalized. Example: “persiaN”. Do Persian words begin with small letters? Or is this addressed in later lessons?

    Thank You

    – Erik

    • Madeline
      March 7, 2014 @ 8:14 pm

      Erik,

      I haven’t heard the term big and small letters until I came to this site. What I have learned is that the letters have a beginning, medial, and final form so that the letters will connect nicely. Think of it like cursive writing.

      The “big letters” do not serve the same purpose as capital letters in English. The “big letters” come at the end because they have nothing after them to attach to. “Small letters” are used if the letter needs to attach to another letter.

      As for the letters that cannot attach to anything to their left, I think this is because the letter would look like another letter. For example, if you were to connect aleph (ا) to the next letter, it would look like the letter lam (ل).

      Good Luck learning

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    May 23, 2014 @ 1:26 pm

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  33. Mir Shabir
    August 23, 2014 @ 4:58 pm

    Hi admin ( Khaliq)

    I am kashmiri, so i already know the script very well. I know a plenty of words also because they resemble with kashmiri, like khasteh( tired ) Tabbar ( axe ) Payeen ( down ) Kitab, Maize( table) and many more.
    I want to learn pronounciation and accent. In addition i want to learn listening skills.
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    September 19, 2014 @ 8:56 pm

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  38. Maria Eugenia Castillo
    May 28, 2016 @ 9:33 am

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    June 4, 2016 @ 1:08 pm

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    August 27, 2016 @ 10:48 pm

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  41. Gi
    December 19, 2016 @ 1:00 pm

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