Talk:Persian/Lesson 1

Improvements
Several words (e.g. اثاث) and letters (Jim, Che, He, Khe) do not have an audio example. It would be great if somebody could provide these. --Daniel.furrer (talk) 20:19, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

The section on how to write letters is very helpful. For example, under ج ‹jim›, "The top stroke is written first from left to right above the baseline, followed by the lower hook extending counterclockwise below the baseline. The dot is written later, after any other connected strokes in the word" is important info that's not included by many sources. This section also tells how to write ج when another letter follows it. What I don't see, and would love to know, is how to write ج when it follows another letter. Do you lift your pen from the connected stroke of the previous letter to write the top stroke of the ج before writing the tail (or the next connecting stroke)? Or do you continue with the main connected line and write the top stroke of the ج later? Huttarl (discuss • contribs) 15:37, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, based on a YouTube instructional video (qFoVx4pUJPQ at time 1:15) I have put the answer to this question in the text. However my experience with writing Persian is limited, so if someone knows better, please correct me. Huttarl (discuss • contribs) 16:02, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

The page refers a few times to UniPers, and links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Persian#UniPers. But the Romanization_of_Persian wikipedia page has no mention of UniPers. The unipers.com web site used to exist (http://web.archive.org/web/20190411053002/http://www.unipers.com/) but doesn't anymore. Based on https://farsi.school/article/romanizations-of-persian, it sounds like UniPers was a project that's now defunct. Maybe switch to a more broadly-accepted romanization scheme. Huttarl (discuss • contribs) 16:26, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Corrections
This section: John tue khiabun Charles-ra mibinad. Anhah ba ham doost hastand. Pronunciation: (John tŭ-ĕ kh-ē-ă-boon Charles-ră mē-bē-năd. Ăn-hä bä hăm doost hăstănd)

I read the introductory part about teaching non-slang Persian, which is okay with me. But I don't think this is formally right. After a word ending in a vowel, such as tu, the ezafe becomes ye, and is pronounced as such. It thus should be John tu-ye Khiaban. Also I don't like the transliteration of Anha. Why the final h? It isn't written. ditto for Shomah.

Also, hal-e-shoma chetur-ine seems a bit wierd to me. I would just say hal-e shoma chetouri, or hal-e shoma chetour ast. Is this something dialectical?

Note I am not a native speaker. Regards, KR —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 141.156.202.163 (talk • contribs).

/to/ not /tow/
I'm a native speaker and I'm absolutely sure the pronunciation for the second-person singular pronoun is /to/, ending with a short vowel /o/ and not /tow/. It's true that the long vowel /ow/ exists in persian. For example, the word for "new" is pronounced /now/ and the word for "oil" is pronounced /rowqan/, but it's not the case here. --Mohnos (discuss • contribs) 07:41, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Alphabet
Most people who begin studying a language start with the alphabet. If you want to give people some greetings and such at the beginning of learning the language, you should have a consistent transliteration guide. This site desperately needs help! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.112.148.173 (talk • contribs).

OK I am trying to explain the alphabet here. Poppy 19:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)