Test your Farsi knowledge and you can see how much you have learnt.

Test your Farsi

I will post the correct answers by end of the week.

Merci

Aila

Salam All,

So many of you have been requesting to have meet up group once every month to talk in Farsi and practice what we know and learn more. I completely agree with everyone who wants to meet up, I am organizing a Saturday in August to have our first meeting and all my students and others that are interested to join us are more than welcome. I need to know how many of you will be coming so please let me know via Facebook, twitter or email me on info@ey-yar.net.

Cost is £5 per person for me to get the materials ready for the day.

Merci

Aila

Salam Be hame ( Hello All)

Recently I have been asked many times whether I have Persian Dictionary for my students who are learning Farsi in London and others who are interested to learn or improve their Farsi (Persian). Good news is now I have good size dictionary available. They are not heavy at all and it can be carried in a bag. 14 CM x 9 CM.

These dictionaries are double sided so has both English to Persian and Persian to English words which is very useful.

if you are interested to buy them please contact me and I will arrange for postage. I will accept payment by Paypal.

Price £12 each

Postage is FREE

اسم من آیلا هست  My name is Aila (Esme man Aila hast)

من آیلا هستم I am Aila (Man Aila hastam)

نام خانوادگی من رضوانی پبتیستا هست My surname is Rezvani Baptista (nameh khane-vadegy man ….. hast)

As you can see verb “هست” means am,is in English. In Farsi all the verbs changes according to your subjective so for example if you want to say:

“I am” you need to change the verb “هست”(hast) to represent your subjective “I”. We need to add letter “م” (mim) at the end of your verb to have the verb هستم”(hastam)

There are 32 letters in Persian alphabets. As you can some some the letters they look different but they sound the same. Click to hear the alphabets

Salam All

If you are thinking of starting learning or improving your Farsi (Persian), now is the best time to register with Ey-Yar. If you register with Ey-yar in November you are entitle to One Free Lesson.

For more information email info@ey-yar.net

Merci

Aila

I found these two maps really interesting. There are so many different languages spoken in Iran itself which I did not know about some of them but the official language of Iran is Farsi.

Iran Map

Norouz 1387 times in different cities

Iranian new year (Norouz) is always celebrated on the first day of the spring. New Year is all about family time. All Iranian family celebrate this time of the year together and after the new year, it’s a tradition to visit the oldest member of the family which is most cases are grand parents. Children love this time of the year as they are off from school for two weeks and get presents where ever they go to visit which in Farsi they call it Eid Didani.

Few weeks before the new year each house hold have a  spring cleaning and buy lots of Ajil (different kinds of nuts), cookies and fruits and have their haft seen set up. Before the new year Haji Firouz, who is man in red bright clothes will be signing songs, dancing and play tambourine.  

The way to learn Farsi is with Ey-yar. I have a passion for Farsi language and it gives me a great pleasure to teach Farsi to others. I would like to express my sincere love and respect to all of you who have been visiting Ey-Yar and I look forward to hearing all your comments and ideas.
Its very interesting for me as a native Farsi speaker to see other people are actually are interested to learn Farsi. With me you will learn Farsi as well as get a feel of what Iranian culture is all about. In my opinion first step to learn the language is to know the back ground and culture of that country.

I look forward to hearing from all of you in near future

Aila Rezvani Baptista

‘Farsi’ was the name given to ‘Parsi’ after Persia was invaded by Arabs. Because there is no letter P in Arabic alphabets, therefore they changed ‘Parsi’ to ‘Farsi’. Farsi is the official language of Iran which was known as Persia before 21st of March 1935.  The English equivalent of ‘Farsi’ is ‘Persian’. Persian people like to refer to them selves as Persian rather than Iranian because it can be used to relate all the Persian related items like : Persian rug, Persian cat, Persian gulf, Persian literature and etc . These are the collection of the flags that Iran has had so far.

 Interesting link http://www.iranchamber.com/geography/articles/flag_anthem.php