I Have 2 Weeks to Learn Persian (to Meet the People of Iran)
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This video documents my journey over a two week period of studying the Persian language (or Farsi), then a one week period of speaking it with native speakers (ie. people other than my tutors). I hope you find it interesting to come along with me on this journey!
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00:00 The challenge
00:28 Learning methods
01:24 DIVING IN HEADFIRST
04:42 Finding Iranians on Ome.tv
08:33 Meeting Langfocus fans from Iran
13:40 Learning about places in Iran
16:14 Reflecting on the challenge
I’m so happy to see you make another video on persian after so, so long. I’ve watched your video on persian so many times as I learned persian and now as someone fluent in Persian I’m really happy to see this
You’re going to be shocked when you see that you are far better at Persian than i am. Far better. 💡
واای چه عالی😍! اهل کدوم کشوری؟
اسم اکانتت رو هم گذاشتی اسفنديار 🤩
شگفت انگیزه✨️❤️🔥
Lol, I’m not even paying any attention to the subtext here; you’re just generally quite an interesting person to listen to.
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Do you have another channel called Knowledgia? I just watched a video about why Portugal was not conquered by Spain. The narrator sounds like you – I say this because your speech pattern and inflection is very distinctive! If this is not you, then just know you have a vocal doppelganger somewhere out there!
Parsi ✅ Farsi❌
@@user-cs9dp7od4z persian
No, Knowledgia is not my channel.
“You’re about to experience an Iranian internet connection.”
[Ad for Google Fiber plays]
Lol
به لطف آخوندهای حرامزاده بله
سرعت اینترنت افتضاحه
@Patrick_919
🐽🐷🐗
Technologie is not important for these people
@@flesz_It’s actually important to us but unfortunately our government keeps the internet speed on the low side so they can prevent proper access to other countries, socially, politically, and scientifically,
@@flesz_ Umm no? It is very important to “these people” as I’m writing this comment they are actually routing a Fiber optics Internet connection to my home in Iran
Raised by Persian maternal Grandfather who spoke six languages ❤
I am wondering if you can speak Persian as well, like your Grandfather
damn
I can not
@@mehdiyasami1864
Your Persian accent is nice and easy to understand. You could be fluent at it fairly quickly.
Thanks for this enjoying video.
I’m Persian and because you asked to share a Persian idiom, here is my recommended idiom which it’s like poem.
“گر صبر کنی، ز غوره حلوا سازی!”
In English letters: “Gar sabr koni, zeh ghooreh Halva sazi!”
It literally means: “If you are patient, you can make Halva from verjuice”
Halva means (A sweet food made from flour and sugar and butter))
Although Halva has different forms and I mentioned the simplest version.
But it has an indirect meaning.
You can’t really make a sweet food using a sour ingredient. It doesn’t work logically.
But it’s an exaggeration to make a point about how effective and good is to be patient.
If you are patient, you can do impossible things.
At last, I need to say that there are two words that mostly used in poem and not in speaking generally.
1. “گر” (gar) means if is an ancient and shorter version of word “اگر” (agar) or “اگه” (aggeh) in daily speaking.
2. “ز” (zeh) is also ancient and different version of word “از” (az) which means “from”
I hope you can master this language.
خوش بگذره! (Have a good time!)
چقه حوصله داری تو؟
@@ahmadrashedkamal300
ظاهرا حوصله زیاد دارم!
هر موقع میخوام سه چهار خط بنویسم، ناخداگاه یه صفحه ای میشه!
امیدوارم برای غیر فارسی زبانان مفید باشه.
I once shared an office with a guy from Iran, a man given to loud phone conversations with his sister.
Wishing to reduce the volume, I went to a Farsi 101 webpage and the next morning, greeted him with a cheery “chetori!”. Not knowing whether I knew more than that single word, his phonecalls got a lot quieter from that point – RESULT:D
lol, smart
😂😂😂
Did he do 50 backflips and give you his wallet for trying to learn his language?
Truly big brain move. Respect from a Persian speaker😂🫡
Fact that he wasn’t pleasantly surprised by your effort and didn’t start a conversation about it hits at other reasons why he got quiet …
i am from south India, i like persian songs and its rhythms. present Day Iran or persia had strong historical relations with Hindustan or India. avestan language of old Iran and sanskrit have many similarities, present day Hindi/Urdu have many Persian avestan words. some say people of north India mixed with aryans from central asia (mainly Iran) from thousands of years ago, the word Aryan means noble people
About 5 years ago this guy inspired me to learn English because I was dying to understand his videos. Once I was done with that I watched his video about German und jetzt spreche ich fließend Deutsch.
I think I’m starting to catch the Persian vibe now and it’s scaring the Jahannam out of my Persian cat that’s sleeping on my Persian carpet.
Persian is boss. The only reason I’m not sure if I’ll keep going far with it is because I always have to switch gears and make the next video. For me Langfocus is half blessing, half disaster. lol
@@Langfocus I can imagine how much time it takes to create such quality content. But I also liked your new format, hope we’ll see more videos where you “shock natives”😂😂👍🏼
dude if you German is TIGHT you get a big leg up with Persian
@@anthonycardott3541 I think it’s fair to assume that after “der, die, das” and their offspring learning the Persian grammar would be a walk in the park. But the writing is my enemy number 1… I’m helpless soon as I see those calligraphic letters and it’s a big challenge to me since I’m mainly a visual learner.
@user-pg6xp7ui3s This might not help much with your problem, but we (Iranians) also use English alphabet to write as well but it’s started since the commercialization cellphones and it’s used in unofficial places like sending a pm or a text. We call it Fenglish (Farsi English 😁). Basically, you can write everything exactly as you pronounce them and since most Iranians can read English letters, they’ll understand what you’re saying.
I was waiting for Bahador to show up he is an iranian youtuber and his channel about languages too😅
You replying “I don’t speak Kurdish” to being asked if you ate breakfast was so funny! Great that you put that in the video
This video would be fraudulent if I didn’t include that catastrophe.
This error makes sense because native-English speakers aren’t very good at several sounds in other languages, so the kh or gh of Persian become K and G, the ch of German becomes k, the ll of Welsh becomes L or H, etc. That said, Paul is no ordinary native-English speaker, so it’s interesting that he didn’t catch the distinction in the k/kh.
@@I.____…..__…__ I didn’t actually know what Kurdish was called in Persian, so I heard “khordi” and because of the “i” at the end I thought it was an adjective form like “ingerisi” for English or “faransawi” for French. “kh” sounds (ie. velar or uvular fricatives) in foreign languages often become /k/ in English, so I though the /k/ in Kurdish could be a “kh” in Persian. Note that I had no time to think and my mind was processing lots of things at the same time. I didn’t even catch the other words in the sentence even though I think I knew them all.
I am pretty much a regular English speaker. It was important for me to do this video so people see I’m not some genius or linguistic master. There is absolutely nothing smooth about me diving into a language. It’s a total mess, but there’s no way around that at first, especially if you want to make rapid progress.
Even in my usual videos, the polished presentation you see is the result of me taking a huge mess (endless amounts of information) and painstakingly making sense of it. Once I understand it, then I’m confident the audience can understand it, but it takes a lot to get to that point. It seems to unintentionally create the illusion that languages come easily to me, or that I’m an expert in the topics I talk about, but neither is true. I never hide that and want everyone to see it.
@@Langfocus That incident reminds me of something I read once. A Japanese professor of English was attending a party at the home of a British socialite. At one point, the hostess offered her guest a drink: “Professor, do you like sherry?”
The confused professor answered back, “No I prefer Keats.”
And both hostess and guest stood there, staring at each other blankly, utterly bewildered by the other’s statements. 😆
Of the languages I’ve studied, Persian is my favorite. It sounds so beautiful to my ears, the grammar is the most logical of those I’ve studied, and it’s fun finding Indo-European cognates. Also the Iranians, Tajiks, and Afghani people I’ve met have been so kind and friendly.
ممنون بابت نظر زیباتون💙 اگه بتونید فارسی رو یاد بگیرید با دنیایی از اشعار ، فرهنگ و تاریخ کهن و غنی روبرو خواهید شد🥰
اهل چه کشوری هستید؟
@@MADI_ART_ متشکرم! من اهل ایالات متحده هستم.
@@JRios270 عالیه ! امیدوارم روزی بتونم به آمریکا بیام ✨️
@@MADI_ART_ !و امیدوارم به ایران سفر کنم
@JRios270 you’re very welcome .
“Har ke Bamash bish, barfash bishtar” “The bigger your roof is, the more snow you get” meaning that the wealthier you are, more responsibilities/troubles/headaches you have to endure.
I like this phrase. It’s so true!
@BIazy It’s a proverb dude. The whole point is to not take it literally.
@BIazy “rich kid” usually has responsibility than the “poor kid”, but the proverb wasn’t created for the kids and the wealth belongs to the dads. And as you know, the rich irresponsible kid that inherits all the money will also throw it away for that exact reason: not learning responsibility.
بعد از گذشت چند سال بالاخره یک ویدیوی دیگه درباره ی زبان کشور من (فارسی) ساختید ، فوق العاده بود ✨️
سپاس از رحماتتون برای شناساندن فارسی به مردم سایر کشور ها🙏🏻💙
It’s a complete disgrace that Persian/Farsi is not included in Duolingo, one of the preeminant places to start learning languages for inquirers. Yet, they include Klingon and Esperanto, while Persian is one of the world’s most important languages with 5000 years of history. My gut tells me there is a political reason it’s not included. However, it is very hard to find ANY free resources online for learning Persian…sadly.
Yeah, it’s a shame they don’t have a Persian course. I don’t know why they don’t, but I wish they did.
Not to offend you but why would anyone learn Persian? It is only spoken in 3 countries at most and 90% of the world’s population don’t like these countries… I’m not talking politics but you cannot deny that politics is a significant part in learning a language, historical significance alone isn’t enough to make a language important, or you would see everyone learning Latin or Hebrew
@@br19_yt It’s one of the oldest languages in the world and had influenced in many other languages. I know that for example English is the most important language now, but Persian is also one of the most alived languages in the world and 120 Million peoples (minimum) speak this language; like German which is also spoken by 120 Million peoples
@@br19_yt Duolingo has Zulu, I think that falls into the same idea of why Persian isn’t available, yet they have it. Persian is quite an interesting language and many countries have taken loan words from it. Either way different people have various reason to learn a language. I do agree for Americans it’s pretty difficult to travel to Iran so they are less likely to learn it. It’s a shame since it’s a pretty fun tourist place.
@@lambert801 as I said before, if historical significance alone is enough more people would learn latin or hebrew… All of your points are subjective and influenced by emotions, people liking how a language sounds is totally subjective and doesn’t stand on scientific base, it is just a preference aspect, it is like saying French is the best language because people love how it sounds. And you can’t compare Japanese and Korean to Persian, they have a huge influence (both in industrial and pop-culture aspects) more than Persian has or had, again I’m not trying to offend anyone I’m just stating facts
I’m a Persian speaker from Afghanistan. Thank you for your beautiful and informative content. Your speaking has improved very well. I understand the Iranian Persian 100% and Tajiki somewhat 90-95%. 🇦🇫❤🇮🇷🇹🇯
I want to share a famous poem from Rumi (1207-1273) who was born in Balkh, Present-day Afghanistan:
از کفر و ز اسلام برون صحرائیست
(az kofr-o ze eslām beron sahrāyist)
ما را به میان آن فضا سودائیست
(mā rā ba miyān-e ān fazā sawdāyist)
عارف چو بدان رسید سر را بنهد
(āref cho badān rasid sar rā benahad)
نه کفر و نه اسلام و نه آنجا جائیست
(na kofr-o na eslām-o na ānjā jāyist)
These lyrics are loosely translated as below:
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.”
درود بر شما🌹👌
Your teacher looks such a sweet and kind person that even though I have no intention of learning Persian, I wanted to take a lesson from her. Good luck.
Yes, Fateme is great!
I am Brazilian but I have three good Iranian friends. They are so friendly. ❤🇮🇷🇧🇷
love bro 🤍🔥
Obrigado marcos❤
I am russain and I learn turkish language. I knew that turkish had big persian influence, but WOW! I can recognize so much words, even so simple like “I” (“ben” in turkish), “or” (“ama”), “city” (“shehir”)…