Welcome back!
I hope you are enjoying these lessons. I will be thankful if you let me know about your suggestions
Last week, we studied long vowels with the help of three letters 
, 
, and 
. I hope you remember the previous lessons. Don’t worry if you are not so fluent at this stage.
As you know, Rome was not built in one day! Remember that where there is a will, there is a way. All I can say is that you will not be able to find an online method to learn Persian, which is easier than this. Keep practicing, and you will see your progress in near future.
Now, let’s begin.
So far, we have learned some letters that helped us a lot with learning vowels. To do this, I had to introduce some end letters like 
and 
at the very beginning and it was inevitable. To explain the long vowels, we needed these letters. Now that we are familiar with the short and long vowels, which are the most important part of our job at this stage, it will not be difficult to learn and pronounce all letters (alphabets) from the very beginning with the help of those vowels. In learning Persian alphabets, sometimes, it is possible to find the English equivalents for them. Nevertheless, not all Persian letters necessarily have an English equivalent. Therefore, during these lessons, for further explanation we try to find the English and sometimes, other languages equivalents to make it easier to understand.
As you know, Persian language is built on 32 letters. Let’s try them one by one.
Note: each letter has a name, which may not necessarily be the same as its pronunciation. In one word, each letter has a name and can potentially have six pronunciations when combined with the vowels.
1- 
– 
this is called Alef /ælef/. You know the explanation of this letter. this one comes at the beginning of the words and pronounced as /a:/ only. Do you remember it? Perfect! this one appears anywhere in the words: beginning, middle, and end and accepts all six vowels. Please pronounce it again with both short and long vowels. You will say: 
Need help? Click here.
2- 
– 
this is called /be/ as in bed. When combined, it may be pronounced as:
3- – 
this is called /pe/ as in pet. When combined, it may be pronounced as:
4- – 
this is called /te/ as in ten. When combined, it may be pronounced as:
Now that we have reviewed the letters from the beginning, it is easy for us to learn the rest of the letters. Today, we will learn some more letters.
5- 
– 
this is called /se/ as in set. When combined, it may be pronounced as:
. Need help? Click here.
6- 
– 
this one is called /Jim/. When combined, it may be pronounced as: 
. Need help? Click here.
7- 
– 
this is called /che/ as in chess. When combined, it may be pronounced as: 
. Click here to listen.
8- 
– 
this is called /he/ as in hen. When combined, it may be pronounced as: 
.
All right. If you need to know how these letters’ names are pronounced, click here.
Alef to HeTo learn how to write the new letters, please go to Let’s write page. Don’t forget to check the Useful drills now.
That’s it for today. Feel tired? Hit me!
Rissa
June 14, 2014 @ 3:10 am
This site is absolutely amazing. It’s broken down perfectly and so easy to understand. So many thanks to you. :)
Adam
October 1, 2014 @ 4:10 pm
I think the big /Che/ graphic got mixed up with the graphic for the letter when the vowels are attached.
Adam
October 1, 2014 @ 4:10 pm
Great site by the way. I love how easily this information is broken down! Woot!!
Sel
October 14, 2014 @ 7:26 am
I really like your site thanks! I just wish there was a simple way to move from page to page without missing any parts of the lessons. Like a simple “NEXT” button which would move you through your lessons. For example, the “NEXT” button could take you from the ‘Lesson’ to ‘Let’s Write’ then to ‘Useful Drills’ then to ‘Persian Samples’ then maybe to the ‘Persian Story’ and then straight onto the next lesson number.
Elif Yildirim
October 16, 2014 @ 5:46 pm
Hi Hasan,
The lessons are well designed and easy to follow, yes. The only thing is that I wish there was audio too. Now there are text-to-speech software that can convert texts to speech. I looked online to purchase a good one so that I can convert the lessons in audio files and listen to them while I am painting. :-) However, it was hard for me to decide which one to get. I tried some online free demos but I just didn’t want to make a hurried decision and wanted to ask if any of you know a good text-to-speech software that worths spending money on. It would be nice to listen to the lessons several times instead of reading each time. It may help to retain learned things. Hoping to hear from you. Thanks!
Elif
joey
November 3, 2014 @ 7:56 am
is the fifth letter the same sound like in the Arabic language or is it \sa\
Erfan
April 23, 2016 @ 2:22 pm
no it isn’t. Its sound in arabic is like th in three. but in persian , Its sound is /s/
Jeremy
April 1, 2015 @ 11:53 am
I’m a bit confused. On the previous page you say capital Alef only appears on its own, but here you say “this one comes at the beginning of the words.”
Please clarify, thanks!
Soli
July 20, 2015 @ 8:06 am
Capital Alef only appears on its own means it doesn’t attach to other letters. never.
But it comes mostly ( I mean 99.9%) at the beginning of the words(unattached to other letters)
Ali
November 6, 2015 @ 3:58 am
Hi . I’m Ali from Iran. 100% (آ) comes in begging of the word. If you see it used in middle or end of the word, the word is absolutely false. This is new law in persian writing. In meny years ago we saw seldom used (آ) in middle of the word , but you shouldn’t do it now .
My mail:
[email protected]
Good luck.
Erfan
April 23, 2016 @ 2:21 pm
no it isn’t. Its sound in arabic is like th in three. but in persian , Its sound is /s/
mohammad namvar
May 13, 2015 @ 8:13 pm
من ایرانی هستم
اگه کمک خواستین اینم ایمیلم:
[email protected]
Ayse Altan
September 23, 2015 @ 4:04 pm
Since I cannot reach some of the info pages I have concluded that you are not there anymore… Are you? Anyway. Thank you for this miraculous site. It is really helpful.
Many thanks again,
Ayse
paul
December 16, 2015 @ 2:15 am
Hello, I have a question, you mentioned, /I/ alef can combine with several vowels, you have an audio of such combining, but how we can pronounce as A: E; A:O:? it means 2 vowles join tegether.
Isabel
February 16, 2016 @ 5:48 pm
I would really like to thank you for this wonderful idea! Thanks to you i’m starting to learn persian from Spain! :D it is explained in a very academic way! :)
But i have one little question: can we write the mars of short vowels only in big letters or also in the small letters?
Eva Zoroastro
March 31, 2016 @ 1:35 am
Realmente es facil. Me encacta este metodo ya q me gusta mucho aprender idiomas y el persa me gusta por zarathushtra ya q nuestro apellido es zoroastro. Gracias
Will
June 5, 2016 @ 7:23 pm
I thought it was supposed to be pronounced like the a in apple? The short vowel I mean. When you listen to the recording, it doesn’t sound like the a in apple.
Isabel
January 18, 2017 @ 10:50 am
salam, the site is good, but i become a bit confuse with the letter ث once that in Arabic is pronounced th’ and not se or its different from Farsi language?
Marli Guarino
January 31, 2017 @ 5:58 pm
I’m brazilian and I have no knowledge on any writing system other than Latin letters (used for English, my native Portuguese etc.). I’m finding this course very interesting and easy to follow. I tough it was far more difficult to learn read/write using a completely different alphabet, but you made it easy!
Marli Guarino
January 31, 2017 @ 7:57 pm
I would like to ask you to add a link with the readings of the text where we exercised find in the letters of each lesson. It would help us to be used with how Farsi sounds and try to listen and identify the letters we just studied. Thank you!