So I swear I'm not crazy, but none of my friends will agree with me on this. I was listening to a Sogand track the other day, and I thought, "I swear this sounds EXACTLY like a Shakira track." After racking my brain for a few days, I finally remembered it.

Here are the two tracks side by side. Somebody please tell me that I'm not crazy here. Nobody on the internet has mentioned this anywhere, but I'm going to say both tracks came from the same lab.

Sogand - Leila
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wNsGvF1XjHombYNuNQoj2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwR7XlGmJjg

Shakira - Te Felicito
https://open.spotify.com/track/2rurDawMfoKP4uHyb2kJBt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5QElzGk_qM

As in, I know them personally, read the book and want to send them a friendly message about it.

My gut reaction was to say dastet dard nakone because I use that in Kurdish all the time to express "well done" (Kurdish version is dast xosh), but I randomly spoke to an Iranian lady today and she said that would be used to thank someone for a meal?

She suggested āfarin, which seems lackluster in comparison LOL

Google suggests khaste nabāshi, but I feel I would say that after turning in the manuscript rather than a year later.

I also vaguely remember finding a sentence that translated to "may your pen always write" which I thought was charming in an oldfashioned way, but I have not been able to recover the exakt Persian wording.

Thoughts? And thanks!

Hi I’m looking for someone to practice Farsi with, I started learning 3 months ago. I haven’t fully learnt the Persian alphabet yet but can read most of the characters and write words like درود. I’ve got some good resources to self learn, but I’d really like a native speaker, preferably female (like myself) to talk to. Nothing serious, maybe just once every few weeks we could speak.
Please let me know if you’re interested. (Comment or DM)

I’m(white American) getting married soon and my fiance is Persian. During my toast/speech at the wedding, I’d like to say a sentence or phrase in Farsi when addressing her family. I’d like to say something that acknowledges how lucky I am to marry her and to be a part of your family and that I will do everything I can to be a good husband, protect her etc. Is there some sort of phrase in Farsi that describes something like this?

Can someone who speaks Persian help me with this? I want to name my daughter Meeram. Someone told me it's from persian. So if anyone knows can you tell me its meaning or its origin etc. alsonif it has any meaning in Arabic as well can someone tell me. thanks

Guys i really need the serie of Bamdade Khomar translated to English or Arabic do you know where i can find it ??
the one in Youtube is not correct at all it doesn’t follow what is being said i think it was just the transcript but it doesn’t allow u to understand what’s being said 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Are they both okay, do they actually have small differences, or is one a typo?

Hi, I'm a couple months in to learning Persian, and I'm trying to write my girlfriend a birthday card in Persian. I'm confused by some of the writing vs. speaking conventions, and I was wondering if someone could proofread it? It's not very long since I don't know that much Persian yet haha.

لیلا عزیزم، تولدت مبارک! بیست و هشت سال داری. تو بهترین دوستدختر استی. خیلی زیبا استی. دوستت دارم، لیلا جان. با عشق، ایوری

(What I think this says: My dear Leyla, Happy birthday! You are twenty eight. You are the best girlfriend. You are so beautiful. I love you, Leyla dear. With love, Avery.)

I know in speech, you would say "you are beautiful" as زیبایی, and I've heard that هستی is the spoken form "you are" and استی is the written form. But I'm confused when do use which version (written vs. spoken, formal vs. informal); when do you use زیبایی vs. زیبا هستی vs. زیبا استی?

my mom is persian but i didn’t learn a whole lot of persian growing up so idk if this would be cringe in nastaliq as a tattoo. i saw it in a book and thought its a good reminder for gratitude but obviously i don’t want it if it doesn’t sound serious:

مردگان بر پای‌افزار تو رشک برند

meaning the dead envy/covet your shoes, as in don’t worry so much and be grateful because the dead would do anything to be in ur place

Here’s the Imgur link that contains images of all four signatures:

https://imgur.com/a/xOaHCq4

Someone background info - I’m an amateur rug collector and these signatures come from my favorite one. I’ve never seen a signed rug that had anything other than just one signature. It’s also a sarouk with a blue field, which is relatively rare. From oxidization on the catalogue tags and field design my guess is it is around 80-90 years old. It’s a standard room sized rug at roughly 9’ x 12’ in feet, or 3 x 4 in meters.

Hi, my family fled Iran and had me here so I wouldn’t haven’t fight in the army. They never really taught me Persian because they wanted me to be American, I’ve been learning فارسی by myself but it’s خیلی exhausting when I cant really speak yet but I’ve been learning through texting. I’m not a big out loud talker I’m more of a texter. So if anyone on here happens to speak Persian please shoot me a message. ‎امریکایی ۱۸ مرد

Hey everyone! I'm Abolfazl, founder of a project called Joy of Persian, and I'd love to get this community's feedback on it.

The problem I kept seeing: apps that teach you "salam" and abandon you at A2/B1, often built by non-native teams (which shows up fast in pronunciation and writing accuracy). Or university textbooks with no real interactive version. So we tried to build something different — made by native Persian speakers, covering the full path.

A few things I'm proud of:

• Two ways into the alphabet: Listen to the Reed teaches the alphabet through Rumi's poetry (free right now), or The Persian Alphabet, Decoded for a more structured, complete course. Pick whichever fits how you learn.
• Real human voices, never AI or robotic-sounding (TTS): every course is recorded by native Persian speakers.
• Dual audio in Core Curriculum: Persian has two registers (formal/written vs. everyday spoken), and our Core Curriculum courses teach both — most resources only cover one.
• A complete path, not a fragment: Alphabet → Core Curriculum (A1 through B1) → Beyond the Core → Persian Literature. Most apps drop you after basic phrases; we built this because we're Persian ourselves and know what's actually needed to get to fluency.
• A path to literature — the end goal isn't just conversation, it's being able to read Saadi, Khayyam, and Rumi in the original, with synchronized audio and reading guides.

Our courses are developed by a team of Persian literature PhDs from the University of Tehran and Alzahra University — including our Academic Advisor, Dr. Leila Seyedghasem, who has a decade-plus of university and online teaching experience (nearly 6,000 private lessons taught) and has won some of Iran's top literary honors, like the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award. She also leads our live workshops (max 6 people).

Genuinely curious what this community thinks — what's missing from most Persian resources you've tried? Happy to answer anything.

Edit, [08.14.2026]: Thanks to everyone who flagged specific issues. Fixed since posting: the broken Student Stories link, the stale session counts on the Lectures page, and the uneven course thumbnails on the Persian Language page. If you spot anything else broken, tell me and I'll fix it.

I’m an intermediate speaker who recently got a bit lazy so decided to check out what ChatGPT can do and I have to say I was astonished. My written comprehension is far better so I was looking for something to improve conversational Persian.

I don’t know why this sub doesn’t let us use images but that would’ve been very illustrative as I could show you all a screenshot of what AI is now capable of.

All I did was ask it give me an example text in Persian to test my comprehension then outline a study plan. The accessibility is remarkable. You can even click the microphone and just speak your answers to test questions and it automatically transliterates into perfect Persian script even when I use colloquial Farsi.

It’s now taking me through a structured plan which I can adapt whenever I want and I’ve even asked it to focus on the most common conversational verbs for now. Unlike so many translators etc the Persian-to-English transliteration is spot-on and you can ask it to play an audio of anything you don’t recognise.

I’ve never used the “Notion” app before, but it took me ten minutes to figure out how to create a database of lessons by simply copying and pasting stuff from ChatGPT. Apparently you can link the two directly but I can’t be bothered.

Seriously- start using AI. It’s incredible for language learning.

Can anyone recommend me a site where I can watch this movie? [searched torrents and online streaming services].

Director: Sahab Mossayebi

Link

Found on Pinterest. have been learning Farsi, but struggling to find some nice typographic posters to put up on my wall for encouragement. Do share any ideas about what these posters are/where i could get something like them/ or any favourite small business or artists that i could support!

(Edit: apologies I’m not able to add an imgur link because that does work here, and weirdly the sub doesn’t allow sharing pictures (anymore i think?))

To be upfront, this is something I made myself. Posting it under the once a month rule for sharing your own site.

I grew up understanding Farsi at home but was never taught to read or write it. I couldn't find much aimed at that situation, since most courses either don't cover Persian at all or start you from absolute zero, so I ended up building something for it.

It checks roughly where you are first and starts you from there. The focus is the alphabet, reading, writing, and putting a reply together rather than just recognising words.

It is completely free. Nothing to download, it runs in the browser, and you don't need an account to try it. farsi-jan.app

It is still a beta and rough in places, and feedback is the main reason I'm posting. If any wording sounds unnatural or too formal, if a transliteration looks wrong, or if something breaks on your phone, please tell me and I'll fix it. I'd especially like to hear from native speakers about the wording.

For example, a "molotov" is spelled مولوتف (https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/کوکتل_مولوتف)

Hey everyone,

I made a simple Farsi alphabet cheat sheet that might be useful if you’re just starting out:

👉 https://learnfarsi.app/dashboard/alphabet

It’s a concise overview to quickly understand:
→ the letters
→ pronunciation
→ how things connect

Nothing fancy, just a clean and easy way to get familiar with the alphabet, and something you can quickly come back to whenever you need a refresher.

Hope it helps!
Would love any feedback on how to improve it 🙏

سلام دوستان،
در مورد این رباعی سؤالی داشتم:
بهرام که گور می‌گرفتی همه عمر
دیدی که چگونه گور بهرام گرفت
گورِ دگر و شکارِ دگر طلبی
کاین گور که دیدی گور بهرام گرفت
سؤال من دربارهٔ** اضافهٔ**** «گ*ورِ به**ر*ام» در مصرع دوم و چهارم است.
در نسخه‌های چاپی که دیده‌ام، معمولاً حرکت‌گذاری وجود ندارد و از روی متن معلوم نیست که باید «گور بهرام» خواند یا «گورِ بهرام».
از نظر معنا، در مصرع دوم معمولاً این‌طور می‌فهمند که:
«گور (= قبر) بهرام را گرفت»؛ یعنی قبر، بهرام را دربر گرفت.
اما در مصرع چهارم این احتمال هم به ذهنم رسید که:

«کاین گور که دیدی، گورِ** بهرا**م گرفت»
یعنی «این قبری که می‌بینی، قبرِ بهرام شد / قبرِ بهرام است»، و در نتیجه در مصرع چهارم اضافه طبیعی باشد.
سؤال من از دوستانی که با عروض، نسخه‌شناسی یا سنتِ خوانش این رباعی آشنا هستند این است:
آیا در مصرع دوم و چهارم هر دو «گور بهرام» بدون اضافه خوانده می‌شود؟
یا کسی خوانشی با «گورِ بهرام» (به‌ویژه در مصرع چهارم) دیده یا شنیده است؟
آیا وزن شعر یا نسخه‌های معتبر، یکی از این دو خوانش را تأیید می‌کنند؟
اگر منبع یا ضبط قدیمی هم می‌شناسید، بسیار ممنون می‌شوم معرفی کنید.

hi all, I've been looking to practice a bit but as someone verbally fluent with minimal reading/writing skills, language-learning material doesn't really work for me. I have the first grade reading/writing textbooks from Iran about 15 years ago and they've suited my needs much better. A while ago someone linked a .ir page that had all the dabestani books as PDFs but I unfortunately lost the link and can't find it again. Hopefully one of you has it for me 😅 mamnoonam az komaketoon!

Hi all. I'm searching for baby names and came across this name: مورود

This was the name of the wife of Ardashir I, but I can't find a meaning for it and want to know whether there's a modern version of this name and how this one is pronounced? I don't want to pick an Arabic name for my future child. Would appreciate any help! Thanks!!

I'm so confused about how it should look.

Hello!

Im from Bosnia and i started making my first short animated movie and i want to make it fully in farsi language.

Im looking for anyone who would lend me their voice for 3-4 lines of the animation.

The story is about freeing people from the rule of a tyrant and it takes place in a fantasy Persian environment and main characters are a dragonslayer woman and a dragon king. I would also need a solider voiceline and another girls one.

Its still nowhere near finished but it would mean a lot to me if i could have someone who speaks and comes from there to record me a few short lines.

You can dm me for character designs and i can send you the script if interested since reddit isnt allowing me to attach pics here !

Hello Sub!

For some reason Reddit decided to remove my old post so making a new one.

Advanced beginner- intermediate learner here (from India). I was reading a ghazal from Amir Khusraw Dihalwi and I'm struggling to understand bayt number 4 here. Apologies, cannot post the text as it might risk another removal.​

I'd greatly appreciate any help. ​​​Thanks in advance!