r/farsi 10d ago

Looking for practice partner

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)

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u/Noctis451 10d ago

Hey, you mentioned you had some good resources for self study. If feasible for you , could you please share them ? I am a beginner asw and am searching for good resources to study from.

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u/Monkey_Big_D_Luffy 10d ago

Sure ! For starters for the alphabet I used this YouTube channel. For me I found it easy to remember the characters. I haven’t looked at all their content but I liked this

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstT-_oo1UVGqRdnU3ZHyOjRB96R7IJkl&si=CDUPraMul2KbVc-q

As for other resources, I did a free trial of Chai and Conversation and now pay the membership, I think the trial is still available. https://chaiandconversation.com
Im not sure if membership is required for everything or just more content. But it has a good page and variety; written and spoken Persian.

I also follow Persian teachers on instagram like Persian_with_Dariush. If you check out his account you’ll find even more Persian teachers, they all seem to follow each other lol.

Hope this helps good luck !

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u/Noctis451 9d ago

Thanks alot for helping...really appreciate it

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u/Skyscraperphilos 9d ago

After I went through the free textbook from University of Texas, I've made a lot of progress by watching videos on YouTube by Parisa Persian. She walks around her city in Iran and makes comprehensible input about things from everyday life. Also the podcast "A Piece of Persian" is perfect for beginner conversations that are actually interesting. I use AI to make transcripts of both of these and import into the app LingQ.

Another brilliant new Persian resource is Daughter of Iran (youtube). She is great at acting and storytelling, and tells sweet and meaningful stories in simple Persian in a way you can understand almost every word by her body language. Really recommend her comprehensible input videos!

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u/suri_arian 9d ago

Girl same I’m starting to forget my own language bc I’m constantly submerged in English speaking people and writing 😭

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u/Monkey_Big_D_Luffy 9d ago

Dm me if you’d like to speak Persian, but I’m a total beginner haha

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u/Zissoou 10d ago

If you don't mind a guy, I could help you practice once in a while. If you do mind then I hope some Iranian girl sees this post and helps you out.

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u/Monkey_Big_D_Luffy 10d ago

Anything will help so if you’re happy to then I’m grateful. Dm me if you can

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u/erp_sepehr 9d ago

Hi. I'm available! With Isfahani accent btw ;)

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u/Monkey_Big_D_Luffy 9d ago

Dorood ! I don’t know about accents hahaha. I wouldn’t be able to tell where you’re from. Dm me if you want

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u/Haunting_Switch3463 10d ago

I strongly recommend Italki. You have to pay, but you can find proper teachers that can help you improve not only your speaking skills but also reading and writing.

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u/Monkey_Big_D_Luffy 10d ago

I actually downloaded italki last night and am pretty disappointed with how it is now. I used it over 10 years ago and it was so open and free to use back then.
There were still paid teachers back then, but the community had a great search feature where you could put in the language you’re learning and search through all the native speakers and choose who you want to dm. Just random people to talk to. I can’t find that on there now, it seems closed off and only for paying teachers now. I’m just looking for someone to casually speak to.

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u/Haunting_Switch3463 10d ago

Have you tried Tandem? Its a language exchange app. I don't know if they have any native Persian speakers that want to learn your language, but if your L1 is English or any other major language thee shouldn't be any issue to find someone to speak with.

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u/Monkey_Big_D_Luffy 10d ago

I haven’t heard of this, thanks for the recommendation I’ll check it out ! Hope it has Persian

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u/sunheist 10d ago

try Preply! that’s how i’m learning farsi, i do an hour long class once a week with a tutor and have been doing so for 2 years now

edit: you can find tutors based on what kind of learning you want to focus on, so you can look for those that focus on conversation perhaps? i message mine on whatsapp occasionally in addition to speaking in farsi as much as possible during class

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u/ImaginationWooden546 10d ago

I think you can find Persian speaking discord servers or something like that depending on what you're interested about so you actually engage. You can look up servers with Iran tag in dis board.

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u/Monkey_Big_D_Luffy 10d ago

Yeah I tried discord before. There’s one ‘good’ server for the language but it’s… weird. I left it because there’s always fighting in it. I joined back and it’s still weird and more fighting.

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u/TigerWonderful93 10d ago

Hey I also started learning persian like three or four weeks ago I am at the level that I can read almost fully all words and know a bit of grammer like the word endings change according to the first second and third person and we have a prefix for the word like mi and b for habitual/ ongoing and for subjective/ imperative respectively and the endings also change for plurals some of the prepositions and I really enjoy it specially the writing part . I am using chat gpt to learn it havent get any friends who are also at the same pace to talk with so if u r interested dm