Let’s Learn Persian! (A1)

1. Hello سلام

– Greetings & Introducing yourself. – Learning demonstrative pronoun این (this). – Use of verb دارد (to have).

2. How are you? حال شما چطور است؟

– Greetings & Thanks.. – Learning demonstrative pronoun این (this). – Use of verb دارد (to have).

3. Good morning! Bye صبح به خیر! خداحافظ!

– Application of سلام “Hi” along with the phrases “Good morning”, “Good afternoon”, “Good evening”, “Good night”. – Using the phrase “Goodbye” along with the phrase “Have a nice day!”. – Using the pronouns “I”, “you”, “you (plural & polite)” and “he” and matching the verbs “to be” and “to have” in the present tense with the mentioned pronouns. – Learning the third person singular pronoun او “he / she” and its application. – The use and distinction of the spoken and written forms of verb داشتن ”to have”.

4. Sara, this is Amanda. سارا، این آمانداست.

– Using phrases to introduce two people to each other. – Learning and distinguishing the demonstrative pronouns این “this” and آن “that”. – Learning the interrogative sentence این چیه “What is this?” and اون چیه “What is that?”.

5. Where are you from? I’m from Tehran. اهل کجایی؟ اهل تهرانم.

– Asking nationality with the phrase «اهل کجایی» “where are you from?”. – Getting to know the capitals and important cities of some countries. – Application of «بله / خیر» “yes/no” question sentences and short and long answers to them. – Application of interrogative sentences «آیا این … است» “Is this…?” and «آیا آن … است» “Is it…?”. – Application of interrogative sentences “Does he / she have…?”. – Application of the negative form of the verb داشتن “to have” and بودن “to be” in the present tense.

6. What is your job? شغل شما چیست؟

– Getting to know the names of jobs such as: nurse, doctor, student, teacher, etc. – Learning to ask someone’s job with the phrases شغل شما چیه and شما چه کاره‌اید. – Teaching numbers 1 to 5.

7. What’s his/her name? اِسمَش چیست؟

– Asking the name, nationality and occupation of the third person from the audience. – Learning job titles: police, mechanic, cook and housekeeper. – The use of ش and the third person singular pronoun. – Learning the verb «زندگی کردن» “to live” and its third person singular. – Learning numbers from 5 to 10.

8. What day of the week is it today? امروز چند شنبه است؟

– Learning the days of the week and the concepts of today, yesterday, tomorrow, the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow. – Learning that Friday is a holiday in Iran. – Using a number next to a noun such as “one apple”, “two pomegranates” and “five pencils” and learning that in Persian language nouns are always in singular form. – Familiarity with the past tense verb “to be”. – Getting to know the prepositions «کنار، در، روی و توی» “beside, in, on and in”. – Getting to know the interrogative word کجا “where” and interrogative sentences related to it, such as: “Where is the key?”.

9. What time is it? ساعت چند است؟

– Learning numbers from 10 to 20 and their use. – Familiarity with the concept of ساعَت as an object and also as “time”. – Getting to know the concepts of «ظُهر و نیمه شب» “noon and midnight”. – Getting to know the concept of «دَقیقه، نیم و رُبع» “minute, half and quarter”. – Asking the time with the phrase «ساعت چنده» “What time is it?” – Getting to know the expression of time using the preposition “به” and the conjunction “و”. – Learning the plural form of nouns using “ها”.

10. Let’s review (1) مرور کنیم! (۱)

– An overview of what has been taught from lesson 1 to lesson 9.

11. How old are you? چند سالت است؟

– Learning numbers from 21 to 100. – Learning to ask people’s age and answer it. – Learning the months of the year.

12. What color is this? این چه رنگی است؟

– Learning to ask the color of something and answer it with the phrase «چه رنگیه؟» “What color is it?”. – Learning colors. – Getting to know the Iranian flag and its colors. – Familiarity with the phrase «جِدّی؟» “seriously?”.

13. My family خانوادۀ من

– Use of the pronouns “I”, “he”, “we”, “them” and matching the subject and the verb. – Getting to know family members and family relationships: father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, wife, husband, and child. – Asking with the words “Who is this?” And “Who is Navid?” to know someone. – Learning numbers from one hundred to one hundred thousand.

14. Befarmayid بفرمایید

– Application of kilogram, toman, and units. – Asking the price of something with the phrase «چه قدر می‌شه؟» “How much is it?”. – Familiarity with drinks and food. – Using the word «دوست داشتن» “to like”.

15. Our family خانوادۀ ما

– Getting to know the words that show second-degree family relationships.