persian-term-1

persian-term-1

tags :: R:persian

Class with Solmaz Sharif

04-30-2020

  • install persian keyboard

  • Princess Soraya

  • R:Hafiz - persian poet

    • His words have a fortune telling vibe
    • Stuff he says feels like describing your

  • Celebrations

  • Nouruz - spring equinox

  • Yalda - winter solstice - stay indoors - fruits, watermelon, snacks, stay up all night

    • recite hafiz; predict the future?

  • Summer festivals are increasingly becoming popular in attempts to reject the islamic govt practices

  • Summer solstice - Teergaaun - Water festival

  • Checkout music videos to get the difference between Farsi and Dari

R:persian-alphabet

05-05-2020

  • Cultural revolution in R:iran

  • People delibertely use archaic persian words instead of arabic words

  • This started as an anti-arabic sentiment, but now it has grown more

  • خ ‘kh’ from the epiglotis

  • We learned numbers 1 - 10!

yek (یِک) do (دُه) seh (سِه) chahr (چاهار) panch (پَنج) shish (شیش) haft (هَفت) hasht (هَشت) noh (نُه) dah (دَه)

zero is sefr (سِفر)

  • 6 gets written two different ways, sometimes with urdu-like letters

  • 8 is ‘hasht’, which is a lot like R:sanskrit

05-07-2020

  • PRACTICE ‘GHE’ sound! (ق)

  • Ghermez is like kirmizi (R:turkish)-> RED

  • Persian family of letters

  • ‘H’ family of letters

    • This letter changes based on what part of the word it’s at

  • ‘h’ sound also becomes ‘eh’ if it’s preceded by a letter with no vowel

  • similarly ‘y’(ی) becomes ‘eee’ and ‘v’(و) becomes ‘oo’

  • LOL I’m making matra mistakes

  • Learned words for 11-19. They all end with ‘dah’, which means ten

05-12-2020

  • Lots of letters borrowed from arabic alphabet, which are redundant with persian letters

  • many types of Z, S, T

  • quirky vowels on Kh

    • khab gets written as khu-ab (خواب)
    • khoshbakhtam gets written as khush-bakhtam

  • Learned numbers 20, 30 and 40

05-14-2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcorqzsAHtc&t=160s Alphabet song

jadvel alephbot

  • learned numbers up to 199!

  • lookup persian rice cooking recipes on youtube

  • try and watch recipes on youtube to pickup on the persian sound R:food

  • READING HW

  • Lookup Iranian soccer show - Navad (wordplay on 90min games)

    • Watch a few episodes

05-19-2020

  • We learned numbers until 1000!
    • hazaur (هَزار) is the same

  • Actually 1 mil and bil too.

  • GRAMMAR!

  • pronouns

    • I (مَن)
    • You (تو)
    • We (ما)
    • Y’all, and You (respect) (شُما)
    • They (singular) - he / she - gender neutral (او)
    • They (respect) singular (اشان or اشون)
    • They plural (انها)
  • Learned verb endings (think R:sanskrit dhatu)
    • is / was (بودن)
    • have / had (داشدن)

Learned about the R:10-commandments-of-persian

05-21-2020

  • Numbers practice

  • Conversation practice

  • Linking -e is like apostrophe. Possessive

  • “boo” is SMELL

    • (خوشبو) khush-boo - good smell
    • (بَدبو) bad-boo - bad smell

  • New verbs

    • to go (ررفتن)
    • to do (کردن)
    • to tell (گُفتن)
    • to eat (خوردن)

  • Lots of new show & tell vocab

  • HOMEWORK - make sentences with all the verbs

05-26-2020

  • More new words (move to Anki!)

  • New verbs!

  • Make a list of verbs!

  • Negation

  • Posession chart

05-28-2020

  • No notes from this class, for some reason :thinking_face:

06-02-2020

  • Lots of new reading

  • A bunch of new verbs

  • The words سّرد and گَرم are hot and cold as in Hindi

06-04-2020

  • We learned to say time
    • “half past”
    • “quarter past”
    • “quarer to”

  • ta’arouf - some kinda passive aggression / politeness تاعروف

  • CNN documentry about Iran

  • Persian breads

  • HOMEWORK

    • READING HW
    • Write sentences on time - use the verbs you’ve learned so far

06-09-2020

Read a couple of sentences and quotes from Instagram

  • We learned country and natiionalities in Persian, and the context in which Iran sees these countries
    • Argentina - Football
    • Japan - People went to work there
    • Same with China
    • Malaysia became known for their visa-less entry & stop for Australia
    • Iraq - War of course
    • Africa is not very known for except SA, Morocco and Egypt
  • The placeholder letter for borrowed words/names. It’s used when there’s no clear sound to make. It kinda works like a rest note in western R:music
    • It looks like this ك

06-11-2020

06-16-2020

LAST CLASS! :(

Turkish place - Opra