The Persian Language IN DEPTH

[@Langfocus]

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[@ezatullah5697]

Anything about pushto language of Afghanistan and Pakistan

[@nouredinebensaid2822]

Origin's word al Farisi الفارسي Persian and al Faris الفارس Knight al Fars الفرس courier steed horse !!!

[@ssam00]

You are a good man!

[@zettymoghimi7391]

@@nouredinebensaid2822 is not al farsi it's farsi الفارسی نیست .. فارسی است یا پارسی است

[@wissam.alsaidi]

@@zettymoghimi7391 He is mentioning the arabic origin of the word. That is why he added the definitive article in Arabic to it.

[@dreamermagister8561]

As a student of persian language I shall say this. I am not dying untill I read shahname completely.

[@Herot145]

As a shameful native Iranian I must say I did not read Shahnameh completely either just randomly through the stories... I must put some time daily to read it!

[@golsashokri9652]

That's really sweet!!!

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

Shadow Bringer Well said, my friend. We’re proud of you.

[@cyrusthegreat1893]

Asmigon 👍🏻

[@mohsend72]

For anyone interested in Shahname, there is this phenomenal Persian podcast called "Fedowsi Khani". The host is an Iranian doctorate in literature. He reads and explains Shahname from the beginning. readingferdowsi.com/ برای کسانی که به شاهنامه علاقه‌مند هستن، پادکست فارسی عالی ای به نام «فردوسی خوانی» هست. مجریش یه دکتر ادبیاته. از اول شروع به خوندن شاهنامه می‌کنه و توضیح میده.

[@cufflink44]

True story: When I was living in Iran in the mid ’70s, I once attended an opera. It was in Italian, put on by a traveling company. At one point in the opera there was a knock on the door and someone onstage said, “Who is it?” In Italian that’s “Chi è?” (similar to “Key A” in English). The Iranian audience immediately burst out laughing. The performer was bewildered, since the line wasn’t meant to be funny. Why the laughter? It turns out that in colloquial Persian, “Who is it?” ( کیه ) is pronounced virtually the same as in Italian. So the local audience thought the Italian performers were joking with them by throwing a little Persian into the opera!

[@HoormazdKia]

Awesome story

[@lilray5470]

That was hilarious! We use "ki" in colloquial Persian and "ke" in bookish Persian for "who". "Če-kasi" (what person) is also used in formal Persian. The Persian word for "(it/he/she) is" is "e" in colloquial Persian and "ast" in formal Persian. "Hast" is also used in the sense "(there) is, exists", but also "is".

[@HH-qc7io]

What is the colloquial Persian phrase for that?

[@lilray5470]

It's "Ki e?", @@HH-qc7io.

[@noktuloespa2083]

And in Hungarian, "Who's it?" is "Ki ez?". It's strange, since Hu. isn't even an Indo-European language...

[@aleesea7275]

My best friend is from Iran and she gets homesick often, so for the past few months Ive been trying to learn farsi so she can at least feel at home with me. Its a beautiful language and such a rich culture.

[@paralleliran8984]

Hello, We are an international group of volunteers working on a project called "Parallel Iran". This is an intercultural project our focus is on Iran, hoping to highlight this amazing country and its rich culture, at the same time we acknowledge the issues that exist. We want to use different media to collect and create topics about this amazing country, Iran. If you like to know more about our activity or join us please visit our Instagram: @paralleliran and our website: www.paralle-iran.com Thank you

[@nazigol900]

ur such a sweet friend

[@infamousa5082]

ممنون. معلومه دوست خوبی هستی 😊⁦❤️⁩ Love from iran

[@Kaguyahime88]

Awwwww...you're such an amazing friend! Can I be your friend?

[@abdsnomadicescapades7773]

I wish i had a friend like you

[@plrc4593]

I've bought a Persian textbook out of curiosity and because I like Iranians and Iran very much and I'm surprised how easy this language appears to be. I'd like to learn it some day. Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱❤🇮🇷.

[@mahyars2731]

Viva Polska 🇵🇱 Jestem z Iranu ale mieszkam w Poznaniu i bardzo dobrzy ludzie są tutaj

[@plrc4593]

@@mahyars2731 Bardzo się cieszę :) Przez krótki czas miałem współlokatora Irańczyka. To był spoko gość, niestety nie zdążyłem go poznać dobrze. Cieszę się, że do Polski przyjeżdża co raz więcej Irańczyków. Uważam, że nasze kraje i narody łączy dużo więcej niż się Polakom i Irańczykom wydaje.

[@mahyars2731]

@@plrc4593 Tak, na pewno, a Polacy są bardzo mili i gościnni, szczególnie w porównaniu z innymi krajami Europy Zachodniej. Iran ma wiele do zobaczenia i odkrycia i mam nadzieję, że odwiedzisz i spędzisz dużo czasu w Iranie!

[@plrc4593]

@@mahyars2731 ☺ Chciałbym kiedyś odwiedzić Iran, najlepiej po tym jak się już nauczę podstaw języka :D W ogóle żałuję, że się nie nauczyłem perskiego rok, albo dwa lata temu, teraz by mi się przydał - bo sporo się u Was dzieje ostatnio ciekawych rzeczy :P Lubię Iran, bo uważam Iran za cześć szeroko pojętego europejskiego kręgu kulturowego i europejskiej cywilizacji. Tak jak Turcję, tylko w jeszcze większym stopniu. Dodatkowo Irańczycy i Polacy są ze sobą spokrewnieni. Jesteśmy Indoeuropejczykami, a nasze języki są satemowe. To oznacza, że Irańczycy są prawdopodobnie bliżej spokrewnieni z Polakami niż np. Niemcy. Przy okazji: trudny jest dla Ciebie polski? :P Co jest trudne, co łatwe?

[@plrc4593]

@𓄂𓆃𓉱𓁩Persian Gulf Warrior𓁪𓉱𓄂𓆃 I have Persian on my list of languages to learn. I think will settle down to learning it in several years. ;) Currently I struggle to learn Russian because I'm interested in war in Ukraine, situation in Russia etc.

[@ameerosamakhan8599]

I am from Punjab Pakistan and there is a saying in Punjabi that "Learn Persian, even if it won't make you a king it will not let you die of Hunger"

[@alirezaasadiarbati8269]

Ameer Osama Khan wow cool

[@vaxelband2439]

Ameer Osama Khan Wow, really?

[@ameerosamakhan8599]

@Huda Karimi Cool, I live in Sargodha, i think it can get as desi as it can be.

[@ameerosamakhan8599]

@Huda Karimi nice. BTW i also moved to to Hungary last summer. So goodbye to all the desi stuff😅

[@ameerosamakhan8599]

@Huda Karimi damn right it is👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@BahadorAlast]

For every Arabic loanword in the Persian language, there is an equivalent Persian word that is preserved and used by many people, and frequently used in Persian poetry. There are also many important Persian words in the Arabic language, such as the word "فهرس", an originally Persian word that is very important in Arabic literature. The influence of Arabic on the Persian language is well known, but the opposite is often overlooked. Many people argue over such topics, but I personally find the commonalities, and the cultural exchange and understanding to be a great way for us to come together, which is what I try to highlight on my channel. When you put it in perspective, we all learn from other civilizations, no language has remained exactly the same for 3,000 years, none of us are original, but we all have certain aspects which are unique and interesting, and we all have influenced and been influenced by others in one way or another. This is something to celebrate and enjoy, not fight and argue over!

[@abdalrahmanalassaf7989]

As Arabian you said the truth, and Persian have great culture and love it a lot of scholars were Persians because Persians are people of science and can see that clearly, even prophet Muhammad said to his Persian friend: if there is kitab(book) between earth and heavens Persian guy will catch it, wish for our unite again and pass of each other and pass some wrong faiths wish Persians admit it in sword and back like islamic abbasid golden age time! And want to give you surprise bro these days will pass inshallah because prophet Muhammad told us about it so we don't get mad but work, even in history when Mongols crushed the islamic world then entered Syria and jordan valley they were crushed ,and when crusaders tried to entered Syria in second crusade they crushed too! And when Byzantine try to take Syria again and took Aleppo Seljuk came and crushed them too! Even prophet Muhammad told us that Syria will be the place were the enemies fall in it and today this is there last days ,history replay himself but in New characters

[@HoormazdKia]

Well said. Love your channel and everything you do. ❤

[@gryf92]

@@abdalrahmanalassaf7989 it is hard to consider Iran as part of "unified Muslim world", it was cut off from it by Shia Turks, and modeled to their understanding of religion, hence on of the fillars of Sunni civilisation was ripped off.

[@abdalrahmanalassaf7989]

@@gryf92 yes true Islam is Sunni one bro, and when Persians were Sunni they gave that word a lot of noor and light and scholars ,but then Shia stopped that brains just like in Syria and Iraq and Yemen because there governments are Shia :(

[@HoormazdKia]

@@gryf92 Its a little more complicated than that. Pockets of Northern Iran was introduced to shia islam before sunni islam. Provinces like Gilan and Mazandaran held out longer, and were exposed to Islam by shia who were persecuted, and the Abbasid revolt first started in Iran due to the treatment of the descendants of Mohammed by the Umayyads. It wasnt the only reason, Umayyads were generally intolerant of Ajamis, but it was a prime reason. This gave some shias hope, but sympathy for the family and being sunni are not contradictory, Iran was staunchly sunni (and non-muslim) at that time. It wasn't until the Mongol invasion that most of the sunni strongholds were poorly defended. Mongols demilitarized most of Iran out of fear of retaliation for the mass killings. Iranians trained in secret in gyms known as "zoor khaneh" (house of power lol) during this time. They were still prominent in sunni Islam, the Ottomans would send their scholars there to learn, just like shias do today, because they didn't have the religious institutions to train everyone, but just like the Islamic conquest northern Iran faired better, and this time they had a significantly larger shia population that could eventually conquer the rest of Iran as their numbers grew. The pro shia people who conquered were Iranic(gilani, kurdish mazandarni, sistani, etc), Turkic(turkoman, qizbalshi, azeri), armenian, georgian, and circassian. This was the beginning of Safavid rule and the history of modern Iran. Under Shah Ismail they were extremely intolerant of sunnis. It didn't help matters that Selim (Ottoman sultan) was equally intolerant of shias and ruled at the same time. This caused a pretty large migration shift of sunnis and shias, and a lot of deaths. In the end, both sects are more similar than they are different.

[@I_aint_no_groot]

This video brought a drop of tear in my eye. Since there are a lot of negative prejudice against Iranians for some past decades, I hadn't seen my language being taught for foreigners, and it filled me with pride. This was almost the first time that I saw a pure material of one of the basis of my life, my language, and I should say I don't know how to thank you for what you have made. Bless you and keep on the good work.

[@TheMastermind729]

@Sepehr Rasoulimanesh You shouldn't worry about what other people think.

[@lilmane1070]

I feel the EXACTsame way

[@dnranjit]

Farsi is a very respected language in India due to historic reasons

[@iberius9937]

You people have a rich history, culture and language. I would love to visit Iran, someday. I happen to be learning Farsi.

[@shubhamrathi5531]

Brother. I am Urdu-Hindi speaker from India and I love your language. I think your language is the coolest & sweetest & best language in the whole world. And the way you use the word e. Like in Mughal-e-Azam & Shayari. That's the coolest thing I've ever heard. Everytime I hear that, I feel so happy & so cool that you can't even imagine. Next level of talent. Next level of swag, bro. 😎😎😎😎 For me, Farsi and French are the best languages ever. And one day, I will learn to speak your language. Insha Allah. Allah Hafiz 👍👍👍👍

[@khanrahimi]

My beloved native language Farsi/ Dari In writing there are no differences between the Farsi and Dari , but there are some differences in accents and pronunciations of some words And we all understand each other’s like American English and British Nice and easy and thanks for the video🇦🇫❤️

[@persianwithazin1290]

I teach Persian language. Check out my channel 🌼

[@lurji]

what is your opinion on tajik? is it too russified

[@mravalik]

For someone who’s studying Farsi / Persian this is very informative and I am in love with the language and the people because Persians are such beautiful people 💙 Salam or Darood from America 🙏🏻💙

[@Herot145]

و درود بر شما و تمام آمریکاییهای نازنین از ایران (And hail to you and all dear Americans from Iran) 🍻♥️🙏🏼

[@mirnowruz]

Salām my dear friend ❤ like you , l'm trying to learn your language 🌹✌... Because it'll make the nations to each other connected...

[@mravalik]

Mirama Perysoon Awwww, that’s so beautiful, and I as well am trying to bring the world together because I am infatuated with Farsi and Persians 🙏🏻💙 And I don’t know what flag your profile picture represents, and it’s a pleasure meeting you my friend 🌺💙

[@mirnowruz]

@@mravalik thank you 🌹 that flag is nothing , just created by my imagination 😁 ...

[@poorang900]

درود بر شما. پیروز باشید

[@gbarba1797]

As a Spanish and English speaker I find Persian easy to learn! It's a very straight forward language, I learned to read the arabic script and instead of arabic I'll go for Persian!

[@CookintheApp]

dale hombre!!! Dale!!

[@makmedia887]

Gary Andrés Barba it is much easier than Arabic

[@hamedkadkhodaie7715]

kie(که) means Who ? in persian, que means Who ? in spanish. Muerte means dead in spanish, morde (مرده) means dead in persian

[@whey8028]

I know persian it's my first language but unfortunately i couldnt learn it completly becuase of lack of learning and becuase i left iran when i was young.

[@WildWorld_Phoenix]

good job

[@fahimhakimi3268]

I am a native speaker from Afghanistan and I say that this 3 dialects have the same words and we understand each other 100% (completely). I am listening to Dari, Tajiki and Iranian songs and love my language. Lets don’t allow politics and governments devide us. 🇦🇫🇹🇯🇮🇷

[@farhadahmadi8442]

Exactly, I'm from Iran,we can understand each other completely, the governments want to change us into three nations and that's so bad because there is many of us in all three countries that helping them for doing that

[@roye6961]

not quite, there are different dialects of Farsi, in which set of vocab are very different: kachaloo = sibzamini. if you dont know this, simply you cant understand

[@bytepunk2970]

@@roye6961 i personally think its cute and creative how gaps of time has pushed each region to come up with its own words, for example cream dandon vs. khameer dandon but to an afghani/tajiki using the word khameer(dough) is bc funny tooth paste is not like dough but like wise the word kachaloo(little thing or one) must be funny to an Iranian bc the word kucholoo is used in a different way ...... we are all unique in our own way but when it comes to literature specifically poetry all differences melt away like snow on a hot summer day.

[@ParisaAarabi-b4f]

I'm from Iran and I'm sure that the love and respect is mutual.

[@WildWorld_Phoenix]

im iranian and im respect to afghaninan people

[@deangomm3423]

I studied for 6 weeks in Dushanbe, and I'm so grateful for my teachers, they taught us very rapidly and it was difficult at times but now I can completely hold a conversation in the most beautiful most poetic language in the world. Барои шеъри зебое дар дилам ба форсӣ шукр мегӯям.

[@User12345r-n]

The language you are writing with is tajik, it has become very different after mixing with the Russian language. Its rich with poem But not as much as the original version

[@fgg215]

​@@User12345r-nTajiki is a pure persian without mixtures.Only alphabet another.

[@nafiseh212]

I'm Iranian..I can help u

[@WarghaTai]

We used to speak French, Arabic and Farsi at home. I used Farsi to say "I am gonna visit a friend" because you don't have to mention male or female like English. In French or Arabic while saying you're visiting a friend you have to mention the gender.

[@zahrazar9974]

Intelligent!

[@spedramdaneshvar4869]

You just abused the language 😂

[@rozhin6055]

😂😂😂 Having he/she pronouns is useful when watching movies/dramas but yea not having it in Persian is pretty useful too! :)))))

[@jcxkzhgco3050]

We can do that in English as well, but cautious parents would give a follow-up question: Boy-friend or Girlfriend?

[@hellomeloO]

😂 then u visit the girlfriend

[@polakanonim4946]

As a Persian learner I really enjoy how poetic this language could be, with those compound verbs and nouns. I struggle with the colloquial and non-colloquial variety

[@jonusahamd3355]

try to learn by conversation it will be easier and faster you will learn ,dont think about grammer

[@aminparsian370]

بله . درست هست . پارسی یک زبان شاعرانه هست . این را میشود از اشعار حافظ و سعدی و مولانا و سنایی و عطار و فردوسی و ... فهمید . ما ایرانی ها تاریخ و فلسفه و اسطوره ی خودمان را به شکل شعر در می اوردیم و به این صورت تاریخ و. فرهنگمان را حفظ میکردیم

[@milutinvukadinovic9244]

I study Farsi on my own and I am Serbian. For a person who speaks Slavic language it is not to hard to learn this beautiful language. On scale 1 to 10, 7. This video makes it easier and more encouraging to do so. Thank you, sir. 😊😊

[@Timurv1234]

If you ever need some help or literature, just message me, I'm a student of Farsi from just across the Drina! :) Good luck!

[@hafizgaming100]

Good to hear that bro I am a persian native speaker

[@RahmanHaghparast]

I'm a native Persian speaker and a language enthusiast. Don't hesitate to contact me if you need any sort of help in learning Persian.

[@milutinvukadinovic9244]

@@RahmanHaghparast Thank you, sir. :)

[@milutinvukadinovic9244]

@@Timurv1234 Do you mean textbooks or... ?

[@farshadvcf3992]

Persian is not only a language. It opens doors to RIIIIICH ancient poetry , old time phlosophy and rich music culture

[@zuhuntati4920]

I am Caucasian Tat. Our languages are same with little differences.Tati and Farsi are similar languages.Hello to my Persian brothers.We are same nation.

[@kemann3815]

Respect brother respect 👋

[@Batman-jq9jq]

Love you my brother💚❤

[@hosseinsadeghi2468]

lots of love from iran

[@s1noxios262]

Love and respect to you my brother from south west iran, Persia

[@HOS3EINRB]

❤️❤️

[@YuuViEtz]

I am a fluent L2 speaker of Persian and have been learning it for over three years. In my opinion, the difference between written and spoken Persian is very structural and can be familiarized in no time. Persian can be learned quickly, especially if you are a native speaker of European languages or Arabic. The biggest challenge for Persian is the cultural elements embedded in the language itself. Idioms and slangs are very difficult to learn/memorize because of cultural factors. For example, in Persian, they say "Qorbonet beram" before saying goodbye to express proximity between people. In English, this expression literally means "I will sacrifice myself for you". Obviously, there is a story/reason for each of these idioms. Persian is full of these expressions and many of them make no sense to people from other parts of the world (like me). Learning them can be very very difficult since our brain tends to remember things better when we can relate to our existing knowledge. Obviously, if you are an Arabic speaker, for example from Lebanon or Syria, you will not find this as difficult because there are less cultural gaps. Some expressions in Persian may still sound odd, but it's guessable to some Arabic speakers. It all depends on your mother tongue, cultural gaps and exposure. Stella

[@farbodtaheri3248]

I am native Persian speaker and I would say I still have problem with "Qorbonet beram" . it's a strange idiom. I never use it and it makes me uncomfortable when other people say it to me.

[@user-nj5ih8su8i]

What cultural closeness is there between Iran and Syria/Lebanon 😕

[@ethdow6817]

Think of it like this: We are a nation who is very comfortable with exaggerations intended for flattery and cajolery. Although they might seem mushy, dishonest or even downright nonsensical to other cultures , we consider them to be endearing as long as they are for the purpose of courtesy. We don’t take these sayings literally believe it or not. I hope that helps.

[@user-dg5vx8li8f]

On the contrary, I see that I, the Gulf dialects, are closer to Farsi than Lebanon or Syria. In our Gulf dialect we have letters that are not only available in Arabic, and they are found in Persian

[@ardalanhamedi6974]

I know 8 months since you posted this comment just passed but was wondering it can help you if you are still learning Persian. the reason for saying it goes back to Love stories mythologies and of course these days exaggeration( بزرگنمایی) exaggeration is also a big part of literature especially in poets like Shahname Ferdowsi. anyway in the stories most of the time the lover wanted to literally sacrifice (mostly)his life for the beloved girl to rescue her or even die due to excessive love and sadness. this Idiom is more logical if u see it in the history and literary context. ( you can find this idiom in different languages belong to Iran like Lorish, Kurdish, Azeri and maybe Northern Iran languages.)

[@helenborzouei1455]

I’m Persian I don’t know why I’m watching this lol edit: wow can't believe this comment got so many replies and likes omg that's actually cool. Thanks for the likes!*_* but GEEZ some of y'all need to relax. I'm not insane and I have a good darn reason to watch this. that comment was obviously just a joke, some of y'all are so nasty and offensive dude.

[@WildWorld_Phoenix]

cus you are " KONJKAV " lol

[@jsf3669]

Helen Borzouei Me too xD

[@rezvan-5457]

We are all " Persian" here.

[@gitac7726]

Haha me too! But I never looked at my own language in so much depth! Lol Great video, thanks!!

[@vergil9023]

@@rezvan-5457 then spaake persian like سلام اهل کجایی

[@learnenglishonlinewithfati8423]

Hi everybody. First I am going to appreciate this channel for teaching my mother tongue to the world. I am Persian and proud of being a Farsi speaker. I am an English teacher and have been teaching English on KZbin. It seems interesting that others are teaching Persian while I am teaching English. When I read the comments I got happy that many people are keen on learning Persian. 🙏👌

[@ignacioparedes6529]

Love Iran 🇮🇷, Afghanistan 🇦🇫 and Tajikistan 🇹🇯 from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@midas3987]

Thanks bro😍 I'm from Iran❤

[@minico7790]

Aaaww thxx :))))

[@leilashahrestani4946]

Thx I'm from iran

[@elimorix1722]

Thank you honey 😍😍❤️❤️❤️

[@Sadddra2]

I'm Iranian and I love your country too🥰

[@demetriusp.5020]

In Greece we say "he speaks pharsi" when we want to point out the high proficiency of a foreign language learner.

[@calmcmanus9928]

Yeah we arab the same we say pharsi

[@veryverygentle]

I‘m sure many view Greek the same way..

[@eduardoevaristo4749]

In Brazil when someone is speaking something that you don't know about we say "he's speaking Greek" Or when you tell someone to do something but they don't you can say "am I speaking Greek?" For example when you tell the students to talk lower but they don't

[@nikolasmacedonites917]

Yep! That comes from the Ottoman times when for a very long time Persian was the administrative language and even after it was replaced by ottoman Turkish it was still very prestigious and a sign of the good education. Sort of like French in in the west. And so the phrase "speaking Farsi" meant what it means today in Greek

[@Qwertyl6996]

@@eduardoevaristo4749 in the Philippines when we don't know what language it is ,we just jokingly say he speaks Aleman(German)😂

[@bmr2104]

Learn Persian until you can understand our poetry. Then you realize the true fascinating nature of this language. Thanks Paul for this great video!

[@bryanl.morrison552]

I enjoy Hafiz in English

[@lvlonde]

I've studied in Iran and I remember when we used to study language I was able to memorize lots of poems than any other language materials.. I enjoyed it a lot..!!

[@webeskimo]

can you explaine why? I am iranian and i know only 1 or 2 people who actually can understand poetry well lol You put the bar very high...if one would do that, they would at least get a job in their country in a university as a lecturer right?

[@lvlonde]

@@webeskimo Well it is up to what you are interested in.. I didn't say that I can understand the poetry from the first time.. but once I understand the meaning I memorize it by heart very quickly and I enjoy it a lot.. and that doesn't mean necessarily that I can be a lecturer in Persian literature.. but it is up to your mindset and the way you perceive other languages.. by the way I even right songs in Farsi..!!!

[@TariqNavabiGaming]

webeskimo I’m Afghan-American and Persians my mother tongue and I’ve been recently learning how to read and write persian as well as the Iranian dialect. I LOVE persian poetry it’s SOO beautiful and unique. I love to listen to persian music for this reason as well. There is some great persian music out there and the lyrics help me a lot to learn and are very poetic.

[@hamzasaleem3242]

For Urdu Speakers, I think learning Persian is a piece of cake! We are already familiar with most of the verbs, nouns, expressions and even some grammatical rules (which most people don't even know). No new sounds to learn, exactly the same script, a lot of common Arabic loan words and the list goes on. Gonna learn Persian when i get done with my Studies!

[@sinabagherisarvestani8924]

they also speak Farsi in eastern China in Xinjiang province , the majority speak Mandarin and ughyer but a small amount speak a form of farsi , its not the same as farsi , its got a lot of mandarin loan words but it is mutually intelligible , they would be able to understand farsi if they speak very slowly

[@slayedclaw317]

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Who speaks farsi in xiang

[@sinabagherisarvestani8924]

@@slayedclaw317 ya they speak Farsi , but its got a lot of loan words , not just China , but a small population also speak Farsi in India and Uzbekistan but the Farsi they speak in China is different , its completely different Its called the Sarikoli language

[@mursalnikzad2113]

​@@slayedclaw317Tajik people who lives in west China but their accent is like pamiri like Pamir in Badakhshan province in Afghanistan and Tajikistan

[@AgathaLOutahere]

The script isn't 100% the same.

[@KlavierMenn]

It is just me or Persian is a lyric language? They seem to sing while talking, so beautiful

[@empiremediankurde8562]

KURDISH ( KURMANCÎ) dialect language - Leng- Leg, êg- eggs, Nuw- New, Gow - Cow Newçe- News , Mouşk- Mouse, Tunder- Thunder, Komênt- Comment, Kartun- Carton, Shuger- Sugar , Dorî- Door, Tigor- Tigge , Murden -Murder, Rune- Run , Na- No, Rozê -Roses, Broder- Brother, Mamê- Mam , Darî- Dark , Garwm- Warm , Wair- fairy

[@poorang900]

Persian have a huge collection of poems . Our best classical litrature are poetries.

[@aezexa]

SardonicHarlequin Yes we have a lot of rhythm in speaking, i recommend you to listen to Hafez or Saadi's poems :)

[@aliakbarzade230]

As a matter of fact, it is :)

[@shaolindreams]

I don't understand any but it sounds beautiful to me.

[@JamieDNGN]

Now I want to learn Farsi. Ketāb e dars already ordered.

[@nazigol289]

Haha good luck

[@vaxelband2439]

The Dark Jamie Lol 😄

[@aezexa]

The Dark Jamie haha i'm a persian speaker i can definitely help! I would happily teach anyone :)

[@amirjafarinia4700]

where are you from?

[@daraarmand1221]

Feel free to ask for help if you have not already given up)

[@cbrtdgh4210]

We Europeans have far more in common with Iran than the Americans would like to admit. Iran is a cradle and beacon of civilisation, with a majority friendly/educated population. I hope ties can normalise one day.

[@sighfigaming5789]

I mean north persians are europeans (genetically) generally speaking

[@Si1ete]

Actually the cradle of civilization is Mesopotamia ( modern day “Iraq”)

[@KamramBehzad]

Soon!

[@abolfazlkhodaygani7019]

@@sighfigaming5789 if anything, Europeans are northern persians :)))

[@marsupius]

America is a big country. There are plenty of Americans that would admit that.

[@amirhossein9980]

As a native Persian, I learned a lot from this video😂

[@БежанХаджиев]

Ahahahahah, ore barodar, man ham darse nav omukhtam, khodam az Tojikiston. To az Iron?

[@shayan4878]

@@БежанХаджиев che jaleb! Bel-akhareh yek tajik dar KZbin didam

[@rozhinarazavian8392]

Ma iraniha Tajikha ra besiyar doost darim. We Iranians love Tojiks so much.

[@EmmettElcielo]

​@@БежанХаджиевhaju ey kash hame ba ye xat mineveshtim

[@indiananupam5715]

Farsi(Parisian) is a sweet language.I'm Indian & I know hindi,Bengali& English languages.there r many farsi(Persian) words in our Hindi & Bengali language. We Indians love Iran❤ Long live Hindustan& Parisian friendship🇮🇷❤🇮🇳.

[@imreza3643]

Love India too.I'm Iranian. :D

[@behnamrahnama9193]

and we love indians and your languege is lovely for us

[@dnranjit]

Farsi and Hindustani are two very poetic mother languages.

[@dnranjit]

Persia and Hindustan/Bharat are as old as history itself.

[@truthexplorer2939]

actually URDU language have perisian words .indians usually mixing Urdu words in Hindi-

[@Tenahio]

I have studied Persian for quite some time now, and I can ad that it is EXTREMELY rich in idiomatic expressions, both in formal language, poetry, and colloquial.

[@МаксимАвдеев-ц3н]

محبوبترین زبون منه بعد از روسی که زبون مادریم

[@pouyan74]

Приветственный возглас 🍻

[@funchidor]

У меня на абарот хаха

[@yourshadowgirl5036]

Dude Thanks for your comment. I've now found a great channel

[@fmfarhan]

Hats off to you, Afarin bar shoma афарин бар шома آفرین بر شما

[@arminneashrafi2846]

جالب است که روس ها زبان مارا یاد میگیرند و ما زبان آنهارا

[@davidthediplomat2415]

Thank you for really interesting content and rich Persian class. I am from Tajikistan. I tought my Canadian friend Tajiki (Persian) within one week, now he can't stop learning more and more and singing Persian songs, poems and stories )). With love from Tajikistan

[@mursalnikzad2113]

Are you in Canada?

[@shadelkurdi8754]

As a speaker of Sorani Kurdish, I could understand this more than Kurmanji I love the Persian language. It's a beautiful language that has a LOT of history. Great video Paul.

[@DarkTrevort]

I speak kurmanji and I still got like 80% of the words before the english translation was shown

[@lilray5470]

Her beji Kurdistan, bra. ☀️ I’m a Persian (from Iran) and I’m also into the Kurdish language(s).

[@mgr1282]

Charayi jinar? Halita renda?

[@wedemboys3024]

Thats cause sorani isnt even kurdish lol.

[@imhummingbird8043]

And we love our Kurdish brothers. We are all Iranic people. Kurdish, with all its varieties, are dear to us.

[@louleloup2607]

I'm learning Persian and you summed it up well ! It is really quite a fluid language to learn as an English speaker (even more for me who speaks many other Indo-european languages). You get rewarded at every step by how the language is beautiful and how you can actually use it a bit. Also, learning the script isn't difficult! من عاشق زبان فارسی ام!

[@poorang900]

Love you from iran. What other languages are you fluent in?

[@louleloup2607]

@@poorang900 Thanks! My mother tongue is French, and I also speak English, German, Spanish, Esperanto (if this counts xD), and a little Italian :D

[@poorang900]

@@louleloup2607 woah . So jealous of people who know a lot of languages.i only know parsi and english and a little bit of arabic. What do you use spranto for?i mean where do they speak in espranto?

[@louleloup2607]

@@poorang900 Esperanto is a special language because it's a "constructed"language: it was entirely invented by a man who wanted to make a language very easy to learn that could become an international language (cause it would be fairer than to learn the language of another country) =) And I learn/learned Persian, Esperanto and Italian on my own you know, I'm sure you can too!

[@naturalglory6311]

lou leloup how are you learning Persian. I would love to learn too

[@dhank9860]

Studied farsi for a hot second in high school, I loved the way it sounded and looked, it's like ur living in a world of poetry, and Persians always light up any time you try and practice with them. The hardest part really was all those compound verbs and colloquialisms. The funny thing is I ended up studying Japanese in college for my major, and I ended up finding a LOT of things (like SOV word order, particles, and compound verbs) easy because I had already studied Farsi. This video really makes me wanna open up my textbook again.

[@faez_dabestani]

Screw the text book! I'll practice with you if you want :D

[@NAsyn-kb1hh]

retake the language! 🥺

[@mishkadavani]

Both my parents are Persian, but I was born and grew up in Sweden. There were a lot of things/pronunciations that I had never heard of. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed this video

[@Suda11]

For me, i was born in Iran, however, i moved to Norway when i was very young. So now i cant speak farsi as well

[@rezagrans1296]

@Mıshka Davani سنّتووووون ¿؟😶🤔😍

[@trumjohannsmancave]

Tjena kompis😀🤘

[@ПаччахБобои]

​@@Suda11 салом алейкум. Мо точикхо мисли шумо шахсе , ки забони модариашро намедонад мегуем, ки гуё ба шири модараш туф карда бошад .

[@lurji]

@@ПаччахБобоиnever seen a tajik on youtube before this is crazy

[@stephenhaval6769]

I am kurdish ! Big love for Persian cousins

[@hoseinkhanjari9758]

Love you brother❤️

[@tahaesfahaninejad3798]

Lots of love to all bro

[@bbcpersian3342]

Stephen Haval سلام

[@MercerSynthAI]

[@UselessGuy580]

We are all one Brother Kurds=Tajiks (Persians)

[@trixina.pandina]

When I learned Urdu, my professor said: You can not say you are a cultivated person until you know Persian. So I started learning Persian, mosty watching Iranian serials on KZbin. I found it quite easy.

[@Mhm_Rhm]

Oh, خدا به شما صبر دهد Iranian TV series's are not good at all compared to English ones. as we describe them آب دوغ خیاری watching tv shows helped me a great deal while I was learning English.

[@EA-uj3ur]

impressive!

[@odinn7597]

@@Mhm_Rhm حیف این همه سریالایه کمدی و غیر کمدی مثل شهرزاد که برایه تو ساختن

[@odinn7597]

sharzad its one of the beutifull iranian serises sorry for my english

[@trixina.pandina]

@@odinn7597 You're right, Shahrzad is a great serial, I watched all three seasons. And your English is lovely 😍

[@alansmith1092]

I want to tell Paul that, as someone who has been trying, off-and-on, for some while to learn Persian (and has made some headway), yours is the most concise synopsis /summation / overview of the language that I have ever seen - and this includes quite a few popular introductions and college level textbooks. That was exhilarating and a great feeling of reinforcement of how I have come to understand Farsi. Thank you very much.

[@roxanasafari1175]

well, our Persian language is so traditinoal but arabicwords mixed with it

[@juralaw007]

I was born in a bilingual family in Chust, a small town in Uzbekistan. I spoke in Tajik with my family, but spoke in Uzbek with the people who lived in areas surrounding Chust. I must say the Tajik I speak is heavily influenced by some Uzbek and Russian words. However, still the fundamental words of Tajik are preserved. I thoroughly enjoyed this amazing video. A huge thanks goes to Lang Focus!!!

[@fgg215]

Sherali zaboni khudro faromush nakuned ba farzandonaton omuzed.

[@agostocobain2729]

Are you Uzbeks, or Tajik? because Uzbeks don't like Iranians, and don't like the Persian language. They even try and say certain Iranian figures were Uzbeks like the great Ibn Sina-e Bozorg. They don't want Tajiks speaking Tajiki in Uzbekistan, and they don't know Uzbekistan was Khorasan, it was Iranian lands. They really don't even know their history. I love Tajik people because I am Iranian (Kurdish, Persian/Azerbaijani), and I hope that the Persian cities in Uzbekistan will go back to my people the Tajiks.

[@SamandarRaxmatov-o2q]

​@@agostocobain2729 bale. Shahri Zaboni Tojiki Ba Oʻzbekiston Hamisha. Orzu nakun Birodari azizam. Salom az Samarqand🤘🐺😎🇺🇿😭😉

[@seyedolshohada]

Some people take your job for granted, but acctually they have no idea how great is that ! You are awesome! Thanks for your informative and well designed videos. I always recommend your channel to friends who wish to learn Farsi ( or at least get an accurate idea about that )

[@spedramdaneshvar4869]

@@xerxes8191 i teach Persian in my telegram channel for free. The ID of my channel is: @everyday_Persian

[@jillshort9241]

What a great language! When I was in grad school, in the 70's, before the shah was overthrown, we had many Iranian students at U. of Illinois. One was a housemate of mine. Recently, I came across a YT vid of someone speaking Farsi, and realized a) I missed the sound of it because b) it's beautiful! I'd rate it right after Italian (my fav) for sheer beautiful sound. Haven't studied it, so didn't realize what cool, logical grammar it has. My housemate only taught me one thing and, from your video, I think I know now how to transliterate it: Salaam (the easy part) chetori which is apparently the familiar form (2nd per. sing.) If only it didn't have squiggly, backward-moving (to me) script...

[@KentAVP]

Hi, Paul ! because of your last video about Persian, i started to learn Persian! it's all because of you! thank you!

[@Langfocus]

Wow, that was fast! 😀

[@dr_disaster]

Where are you from

[@farhanhosseini3881]

Good 4 u .our people love people frome around the world.

[@aypibar]

I’m an Iranian teacher of Farsi. In addition to “hā” as plural suffix there are some irregular plural words taken from Arabic. The learners need to learn them too. For example : Masjed= mosque 🕌 Plural= Majed-hā or Masājed (Arabic) Also there are some other plural suffixes less used. Eg. -ān Mard=Man, Mard-hā / Mard-ān Both means Men

[@مهدیامیدی-ت7ث]

Just in official writings we might say Masājed, but in ordinary talks no one use it and we simply say Majed-hā. we even don't pronounce -h- in hā. we write Mard-hā but we pronounce Mardā. in fact it's really weired if you talk official persian with ppl. the persian which ppl talk is really different with what is writte. we write yek(1) but we pronounce ye and...

[@nazigol289]

U should know as a teacher that masjed is a loanword from Persian word Mazgat (worshiping place of zoroastrians) the same as many other loanwords like هندسه taken from اندازه and so on

[@emmmetguzelemesnur9174]

This is my nameگۈزەلنۇر , I'm from the far west of China, I'm an ethnic minority . And my ethnic group is called Uyghur. Our written form is in Persian, but the language belongs to Turkish.

[@flavio-viana-gomide]

Very interesting. Brazil here!

[@flavio-viana-gomide]

Hi! How China treats the Uyghur people? Does it treat well?

[@goldenmemes51]

Flávio Viana Gomide just like how bolsenaro treats amazonas peoples 😅😅😂😂😂🤣😅

[@flavio-viana-gomide]

@@goldenmemes51 Bolsonaro don´t like many people unfortunately. He´s not very democratic.

[@zeriyx]

your people are on my mind a lot these days. i hope you are well. there are certainly horror stories leaking out to the west about what's going on there.

[@ssoltani498]

"There is no grammatical gender" makes this language perfect and easy to learn. Update: Also comparing it to most languages that have 1-3 articles, Persian doesn't have any definite article.

[@Ballin4Vengeance]

Uhm Uhmm *finnish

[@aramr.1301]

And also hard for US to actually learn other languages...😐

[@saralovesthemoon]

Lol try learning Farsi then think twice 😁

[@samuelwallace2782]

I really enjoyed learning farsi. It has rules that it generally sticks with to. Learning it to a basic level was very fun.

[@hypersomnia4]

@@saralovesthemoon Im a Turkish speaker and its actually easy peasy for us to learn Persian since our grammar is similar.

[@ingriddurden3929]

It sounds so beautiful. All these comments telling that it is an easy language make me want to learn it. I have read several books translated from Persian. How wonderful would it be to read them in the original language ! Thank you for your channel ! Enjoying every single program !

[@aradplayseverything4368]

Well of course if you live in iran the langeauge seems easy but i reaaly think arabic is harder in iran since in my school They teach rabic and i cant get the hang of it. the only two words i no is salam(since its in farsi) and la!(no)

[@Hana_kurusu]

@@aradplayseverything4368 no Arabic is popular language in Iran and it’s easy to speak bc some of work mean same in Arabic like salam

[@hajarebrahimzadeh8175]

Thanks for sharing my language to the world. I'VE NEVER thought that people are interested in my language. 🌹🌹❣❣🌷❣🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷

[@IlikethenameLavad]

Me to

[@SIREX_GR]

سلام

[@minico7790]

Same

[@thatdumbguy6450]

@@SIREX_GR چه خبر

[@SIREX_GR]

@@thatdumbguy6450 قربونت

[@dastanparviz9613]

Zenda bod forsizabononi rui dunyo. Durud az Tojikiston.

[@Slaptothefuture]

zenda bosh ey vatan, Tajikiston e Azad e man ( sa'y kardam ba lahjeye shirine tajiki begam. bebakhsh age eshtebah dasht 😂) Make IranShahr (the greater Iran) happen again! ❤️

[@dastanparviz9613]

Pourya azizi Siposguzoram barodari azizam. ❤️😍. Zinda bod Iran-e bozorg (great Iran= Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq...)

[@poorang900]

همینطور هم درود بر تاجیکهای عزیز

[@amirsabbaghi209]

Learn persian script

[@2009KAPLAN]

ZINDEH BAAD VATANAM ,Iran, Tajilistan, Afghanistan, Samarghand, Bokhara

[@vikvik9573]

LOVE FROM ROMANIA❤️ Zende bad IRAN !!!❤️🙏❤️

[@hekmat.1]

Salam how are you?

[@vikvik9573]

South Turkestan Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen Salam! Very good!!!🤗

[@motamedi_programmer]

درود بر شما 😅

[@sepehrmaleki482]

ZENDEH BAD ROMANIA

[@theodorintfp3318]

In Romanian salam is a tipe of meat 🍖(kind of)

[@MelodicDG2]

i’ve shared this video with honestly all of my friends! it’s easy to understand. keep on making these beautiful videos; cheers from the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴

[@mehdihajimohamadi8663]

Impossible Faroe Islands 🇮🇷🇹🇯🇦🇫❤❤🇫🇴

[@ShaydaNejad]

This is insanely detailed and extremely accurate and informative. I am in awe!

[@Langfocus]

Thank you!

[@SeldenDeemer]

Thank you. I have studied Arabic since 1966, and plan to take on Farsi in a few weeks. This is a great intro.

[@anushervon4861]

I speak farsi-tajiki and I absolutely love this video❤️❤️❤️ and thank you for letting people know that in Tajikistan we also speak persian (because so many people thinks that in Central Asia all “stan” country’s speak the same language ,which is very annoying me) and i know my English is awful lol Tashakkore ziyod (thanks a lot) Paul ❤️

[@rezachitsaz4923]

In ja dar Iran ham baghie keshvar ha fekr mikonan maha mesl hamsayeha arabi harf mizanim... Jalebe shoma ham in Tory hastid. Shoma aya alefba ye Ma ro mifahimid? مثلا وقتی این طوری تایپ میکنم، میتونی بخونی ؟

[@anushervon4861]

Reza Chitsaz Salom doste azizam :) Ore, alifboye shomora kame khonda metavonam, chunke dar ba’ze maktabho alifboye shomora meomoozand. Vale az sababe, ke har ruz istefoda namikonim, khob yodam nest.

[@rezachitsaz4923]

@@anushervon4861 Sepas :)

[@youtubeexpert2441]

BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE. LOVE FROM JORDAN

[@rodolfoklienwilmes1571]

Las declinación y los casos de los verbos semejantes al alemán Acusativo nominativo dativo etc

[@CyrilNICOLAS-rp4yb]

Indispensable ! En 20 minutes, les bases grammaticales du "farsi" sont posées et tout devient plus lumineux ! Félicitations, les explications sont claires, et le support visuel est très bien conçu. Un grand merci ! Cette vidéo fait suite à une première vidéo d'introduction à la langue perse que je vous recommande vivement car elle est toute aussi pertinente.

[@sergenozer7875]

I can't even imagine how much effort and research you have made to summarize all this full of books grammar. I admire you man. You just make it easier and easier to learn a language for grammar freaks like me.

[@OmidVahidi]

I enjoyed this video a lot. Thank you very much Paul. As an Iranian, this was such a surprise to see this high-quality video and in-depth explanation of Persian language. I think this video is the first of its kind. I'm so delighted you made it. Hope to see more about Persian

[@juangarcia6473]

I signed up for a persian class at my uni this semester, this video was an amazing introduction to it imo and i feel a little more prepared and less anxious to start the course

[@elnazshn6508]

How was that?

[@herocraft8416]

نترس🗿از چینی راحت تره😂

[@psh-_-10pro85]

@@herocraft8416 راس میگه

[@Ornate-slumber2740]

Hey there. I am a local Persian speaker. I really appreciate the fact that so many people are interested in our language and hope that you enjoy learning it because it is a very sweet and delicate language. I also thank you Langfocus for explaining it so well. I enjoyed it a lot❤️❤️ Just a little correction here, the present stem isn't actually hard to create and we do not memorize it. To find the present stem of a verb, you should write the imperative form of the verb and remove the "b" sound from its start. For example, the verb «خوردن» (pronounced like: khordan) First, you write the imperative form: «بخور» (pronounced like : bekhor or bokhor dependent on the speaker) And then, you simply remove the "b" sound from the start: «خور» (pronounced like : khor) And wallah, you have the present stem. Another example is «شنیدن» (pronounced like: "shenidan" which means "hearing") The imperative is «بشنو» (beshno) Remove the "b" sound «شنو» (sheno) And there is your present stem. Another correction, the letters «غ» and «ق» are COMPLETELY pronounced differently. Even nowadays. You just need to see it in different regions of Iran to understand. Just the fact that people pronounce it similarly in our capital, doesn't mean it is pronounced similar in everywhere. Also, to answer your question, I believe that the formation of the words are also a very important part of Persian to understand. I don't know how to explain it since I'm not a teacher😅 but basically the formation explains how words are created in Persian and vasts your understanding of the words you hear. "Moshtagh" , "Morakab" and "Moshtagh Morakab" are the three main types of word makings. I love to see it explained. And at the end, I thank you again for such a great effort you did to explain Persian. And sorry in advance for the probable gramatic problems I had in my comment. I'm still not a very fluent English speaker.

[@tansly5001]

I'm a native speaker of Turkish and I've been learning Persian for a few months. It's been quite enjoyable. Turkish has lots of loan words from Persian and learning the origins of such words is fun. Having lots of Persian words in my native language helps a lot while building up my vocabulary, but there are times it actually hurts. That is when we have a Persian loan word but its meaning has slightly changed over time. You guess its meaning, but oops, it has a similar meaning but it's not exactly the same. It is also challenging to pronounce Arabic loanwords. I find it easier to guess the pronunciation of native Persian words.

[@DrAmiry]

It is quite fun to learn a language that shares many words with your mother language. I am from Afghanistan and a Persian speaker. Similarly, I learned the Urdu Language just by watching Bollywood movies, because the Urdu Language has many loan words from the Persian language.

[@CookintheApp]

Evet!!

[@shapurthegreat8314]

Tansly Don't be stupid my fiend. Persian and turkish have no Similarity or relationship. 100% different...

[@talksolot]

there are many Turkish words in Dari as well probably in Farsi too and likely even more so in Tajik. I love Turkic languages they sound so nice to my ears.

[@makradars8150]

Shapur the great Don't be stupid my friend He just said that there are loan words.

[@ziawalizada3184]

i am an Afghan Pashton my mother language is Pashto but I can speak perfect Persian language and I love it

[@ziawalizada3184]

@M310M همه اقوام خوب و بد دارند چه تاجک هزاره پشتون ازبک باشد قوم پریت ړنادان دارند خدلوند هدایت شان کنند تا از قوم پرستی وزبان پرستی دست بکشند

[@thenoobprincev2529]

Greetings to Our Pashtun cousins! درود بر پسر عموهای پشتون ما

[@voxaliqui4279]

hey! Can you please tell me how big is the difference between Dari and Pashton?

[@moltisanti745]

Pashtuns are enemies of Persian culture, mordar hastan. Don’t ever speak Persian you khar

[@hezbullahmomand4621]

@@moltisanti745 Khor da gayem Majahir Go to your Country 🇹🇯🇮🇷🖕🏽🏳️‍🌈

[@baekhyun9822]

I don't know why but Persian sounds to me so sophisticated and royal and I like it. If it weren't that I'm currently learning Japanese and Korean I'd go and give it a try. The fact that is S.O.V like Japanese and Korean and that it uses postpositions as well plus the fact that the vocabulary is Indo-European related makes it more intriguing. The ease of pronunciation and moreover the way Farsi adapted Arabic script reminds me of the relationship between Chinese and Japanese. I don't know if anyone can relate, I love this channel.

[@alittlebitgone]

According to the Persians I know to them Afghans speaking Farsi sounds royal and elegant in contrast to their own modern and rougher Farsi.

[@1doubtist]

@@alittlebitgone not really! Iranians prefer the Iranian dialect for sure. it's softer and way more complete.

[@Odinsday]

The comparison between Arabic/Persian and Chinese/Japanese is actually pretty accurate.

[@mgr1282]

Persian has a very rich literature. In the past it was used as a official, literature, .... language in India, Ottoman empire, Seljuk empire, .... By the way there is some words in english from persian (not cognate) like paradise, magic, bazzar, ...

[@veryInteresting_]

@@alittlebitgone I don't know about that. In Iran you usually hear Afghan Farsi spoken by poor Afghan immigrant construction workers. So hearing it doesn't really bring royalty into most people's minds. I'm not racist I love all the Afghan people I'm just stating facts here.

[@atamo8770]

This quick intoduction to persian language is really the most exact and authentic way to teach persian. I am so impressed.

[@dilafruzmeylieva5999]

I'm uzbek and from Samarkand where most of the citizens speak tajik I really love the language Many of the words in uzbek come from takik and arabic and It's pretty simple for the Central Asians to learn farsi .Colloqual tajik is even easier as a child I used to hear tajik conversations around so I understood it quite well and I took me a month learning tajik to get into conversation )

[@aaronmarks9366]

I think you might be the first Uzbek person I've encountered on youtube. Greetings!

[@wedemboys3024]

Arent most people in samarkand Tajik Persian?

[@krsn77540]

@@wedemboys3024 they were most of central asia was persian before the mongols came al bukhari was persian too

[@Set_Get]

And your name in Farsi: دل‌افروز In Iran, we say: Delafruz Beautiful name, beautiful word

[@Amin-zv8yi]

Nice name :)

[@cuteladybug8622]

I've fallen in love with the Persian language and hope to learn it one day. I'm so glad Iranians fought to keep parsi/farsi alive and didn't let it die with the Arab conquest of Iran. It's so beautiful and has such a musical/melodic sound. It's a shame that parsi/farsi gets overlooked when talking about beautiful world languages because it definitely belongs in that category.

[@cuteladybug8622]

@@baharehforghani4185 I'm Gladys and I'm a native speaker of English. I'm eager to learn Persian. I'd appreciate your help. Khelli mamoon☺

[@baharehforghani4185]

Dear I am waiting for you🥰

[@cuteladybug8622]

@@baharehforghani4185 hey, it's Gladys. I think I found you on Instagram, but I'm not sure. To find me on Instagram type "Gladys Rice" and I'm the first on the results. My screen name is ladybugonwheels86

[@Al1veEn3rgy]

cuteladybug86 i can help you aswell, i was born and raised in europe so maybe i can put things in a perspective for you!

[@Al1veEn3rgy]

Bahareh Forghani Baba chi migi ba in hny goftanet

[@solsagan1845]

Iranian language and culture are so fascinating, thank you for this amazing video! :)

[@dalheeim8118]

Oh! You explained everything super accurately!! Wow! I'm a Persian native speaker, but actually after listening to your explanation, I got a feeling like How interesting! I'm going to learn this language !!! And thank you very very much to make such an interesting and helpful content about Persian!

[@HikariFortes]

So excited to see this video!! I remember watching your first Persian video and wishing it had this in-depth analysis like the other language videos. Been learning Farsi for more than a year now. At first the hardest part was memorizing the present tense conjugations, and then making the switch from informal to formal language. There's not much material for learning and that's a pain. For a long time I used wikipedia to look up individual words to find their pronunciation. Love this language. Iranians in particular always sound so happy and up beat when they speak Farsi, I love it.

[@Mhm_Rhm]

lack of resources is really a pain in the .. i can guess. if you are interested I can share some links to a website which contains first, second, and third grade elementary school books. Im not a language specialist but i can guess reading those books may help a lot. like the way i learned reading and writing when i was 7 y.o.

[@HikariFortes]

@@Mhm_Rhm it certainly is a pain. I would love any recommendations for easy learning materials, I'm probably still A1/A2 Farsi but am working hard to improve

[@Mhm_Rhm]

@@HikariFortes chap.sch.ir/ you can change the search criteria دوره تحصیلی to دوره آموزش ابتدایی and then choose the grade and the book you want which can be math science or of course فارسی. in first grade words has vowel signs.

[@Mhm_Rhm]

also search the word سریال on youtube. lots of iranian tv programs will show up.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Anyone watching this in 2020? I love how detailed these videos are. I have all the admiration for Paul for being so diligent and thorough in his research.

[@stormplayzop223]

I'm watching in 2022

[@baran1985]

Im watching in 2023

[@МаксимАвдеев-ц3н]

Paul, thank you for this video. It's great that you attract attention to this underestimated language. I really admire it though I'm Russian. Glad that I have a chance to speak these two and English😊

[@firouzmosharraf654]

As a Persian living in USA, I really enjoy watching this video. I am fluent in Farsi and English but I also study French, Spanish and Italian and found your videos related to these languages very interesting and educational specially the ones about similarities and differences between these languages. Thank you for doing a great job. Firouz

[@화이팅-t2q]

Love persia from korea!♥♥

[@samiram5029]

Iranian kpoper here haha im excited

[@SuperThischannel]

We love Korea!

[@silibra2888]

Your profile picture is scary!

[@화이팅-t2q]

@@silibra2888 You know the man who's in my profile picture?

[@amirhossein5253]

@@화이팅-t2q is he the father of kim jung oon?kim il sok

[@enesgonen1332]

For a Turkish person it is really enjoying to learn about Persian language just like Arabic. Most of Turkish people are not aware of using Persian and Arabic words in daily life. I feel like enlightened when I realize Persian words in Turkish language. And it sounds amazing.

[@malolelei3937]

evet Turkce'de bircok Farsca kelimeler var.ama Farsca'da da Turkce kelimeler var.mesela acar,kacak,kap,surme,surtme,kirmizi(biz "ghermez" diyoruz),olgu,oda...Turkceyi ogrenmeden once ben de onlari Farsca saniyordum o yuzden ogrendigimde cok sasirdim ve onlarin kokenlerini bilmek cok hosuma gitti.neyse Iran'dan selamlar :)

[@khanfederation3141]

Kırmızı Türkçe değil Arapça kökenli. Türkçeleri Kızıl ve Al.

[@lexi55410]

the Ottoman empire deliberately used a lot of Persian for their vocabulary back then

[@joshi3518]

Never forget what you Turks have done to Greece.

[@enesgonen1332]

@@joshi3518 what is the connection Didn't get it

[@mohammedsy1590]

9:12 well, I guess it's time to learn a new *beautiful* language

[@sukarnos3xy]

Vinegar

[@noorlingo]

Hi I'm an English and a Persian Language and Literature teacher and I just wanted to say thank you for your most valuable video ✨️♥️

[@enayatbm330]

my lovely mother Language "Persian" Love from kabul Afghanistan

[@amiryousefabadi9727]

من ایرانی هستم زبان فارسی تو ایران و افغانستان یکیه تقریبا و بیشتر از90 درصد فارسی افغانستانو متوجه میشم ولی فارسی تاجیکستان رو سخت میفهمم

[@alikoshani]

amir yousefabadi زیاد سخت نیست، الف‌ها را با ُ تلفظ کن، نیم سختی از بین می‌رود.

[@sasank3557]

درودبرفارسی زبانان.🇮🇷🇦🇫🇹🇯

[@EBMJ]

Isn't Dari the mother language of Afghanistan?

[@SarmadHassan]

It’s been 4 months since I’ve been learning Persian on the side, and it is VERY easy. I’m a native speaker of Hindustani and English, am learning german since three years, and my level of proficiency in German and Persian are almost comparable. I can even understand most of the videos of the ‘Persian fairy tales’ channel on KZbin. It really helps if you know Hindi- the grammar shows some really strong similarities ( sov, use of subjunctives, ke ( that) constructions, agar ( if), shayad, etc). Even real and unreal conditions ( agar khaye - agar bekhorad / agar khata - agar mikhord) are grammatically very similar. And knowing English is like icing on the cake- if I can’t understand something while thinking in Hindi, I usually get it by switching to English (although/ unless) I love that it hasn’t got unnecessary idiocies like grammatical gender or ergativity or random irregularities ( mouse/ mice; go / to) or other infernal things. The pronunciation took some time getting used to, specially the mishmash of the spoken forms ( like they change ‘ra’ to ‘ro’, then they eat the ‘r’ up and attach the ‘o’ to the noun phrase ( boshqab ra bar dasht- boshqabo bar dasht))

[@arminneashrafi2846]

That's true, unless the words ends in a vowel, then we keep the r , and pronounce it as ro again. And it also depends on the person, the less formal you try to seem the more you drop certain letters

[@SarmadHassan]

Jacques hufhrflufer the internet is a great resource, if you have an idea how to learn a language and what to look for. I started with jahanshiri .ir and this Texas university Persian section or something. I also had these books you can get at their cultural centre by someone called yadollah samareh. IMO the internet may prove to be enough but nothing beats a complete chronological book. I also get children’s books from there, but idk if there’ll be a cultural centre in your city ( i live in Delhi) Fair warning, I could read a bit of urdu before, and knew the alphabet already.

[@kacperwoch4368]

For Polish speakers questions seem very familiar: ki-kto, che-co, key-kiedy, chera-czemu, kodam-który, and forming questions by rising intonation is a basic feature of spoken language.

[@MagusMagnus]

I think Indo-iranian languages in general and Persian especially belong to satem family language. Slavic languages are also satem.

[@lilray5470]

There’s more: Polish “jestem, jesteś, jest”, and Persian “hastam, hasti, hast”.

[@MagusMagnus]

@@lilray5470 That's correct! I always belive the language represents the mindset and mentality of peoples and reverse, speaking a language can form the mentality. I think that's why as an Iranian I always had good relationship with people from Slavic countries like Ukraine, Poland and Russia!

[@kacperwoch4368]

reza kh It's so nice to hear that. There is definately some common mindset, no wonder Polish nobility claimed ancient Iranian (Sarmatian) origin/connection instead of a western european one or whatever.

[@lilray5470]

Well, I think we’re all more similar and related than what we think, regardless of what languages we speak, and that the language of friendship is universal, Reza.

[@Theo-safa]

Hi your information about Persian language is Unbelievable, I as Persian didn't know something that you discovered. 👏👏👏

[@therkenos]

Reading Rumi is my motivation to learn Persian and also the Shahname; I am totally in love with Iran and it's glorious history. Any advice and material that you can recommend will be highly appreciated!

[@hadsaadat8283]

I strongly recommend you go for Khayyam, his trouser poems are excellent

[@Hermesborugerdian]

Shahnameh and Rubayat of Khayyam are must reads

[@shirinmhidk7718]

Read Hafiz's poems

[@chillis8267]

Rumi was actually Persians of Afghanistan.He was born in ancient Balkh which is located in todays Afghanistan. More than half of Afghanistan speak Persian and it counts as a Persian speaking country.

[@Shabnam-xg6sf]

@@chillis8267 You forgot about Tajikistan. Persians of Afghanistan and persians of Tajikistan are tajiks. And we have shared history, literature and culture with Iran.

[@jackichan6164]

Drood bar ame farsi zabanan Tajikistan, Iran and Afghanistan and hands up 😊

[@xamirreza7159]

Dorood bar hameye farsi zabanane tajiiestan, iran and afghanistan, it is how we type it in iran 😊😉

[@jackichan6164]

بله شما درست میفرماید 👍

[@علیمحمدی-ث4و]

@blu lion معنی کلمه ame تو جمله ای که نوشتی چیه؟

[@wedemboys3024]

Long live all Persians!!

[@علیمحمدی-ث4و]

@@wedemboys3024 I know the meaning of whole sentence except the "ame". What does "ame" means? Also I'm Persian.

[@CryRight]

As an Arab, I started learning Persian through free online stuff and now I am quite mastering more than conversational skills. I need to learn more vocabs, and improving listening might be a challenge.

[@officealireza9097]

Thank you for your interest in Persian. I admire your efforts. I live in the US and know several Arabs folks (mostly from SA) learned Persian to good degrees.

[@nomesa7374]

Start reading poetry if you feel you are good enough in day to day life. Without poetry, Persian is just a language.

[@CryRight]

DAS Sure. It's a bit challenging.

[@nomesa7374]

@@CryRight True! But with practice it is possible. The poetry has rhythm. If you get their rhythms, then everything flows.

[@CryRight]

DAS خيلي متشكرم. واقعا لطف داري

[@sasorinakkkk4507]

I am Iranian and I really admire you that your original language is not Persian but you like Persian ممنونم بابت زحماتتون💜

[@medrissarwary464]

I'm Tajik(persian) from Greater Khorasan/Afghanistan there is no Dari or tajiki, it is just dialect of Persian language, in Afghanistan we says Parsi or Farsi for our language that means Persian. Long live all Persian. Tajik,Persian,iranian and Aryan are all synonym with each others. Panjshir

[@poorang900]

درود بر شما

[@medrissarwary464]

@@poorang900 درود همچنان

[@ia285]

You're a farsiwan and not a Persian. Tajiks are speakers of Persian. They used to speak Sogdian which is an east Iranian language like Pashto.

[@medrissarwary464]

@@ia285 Lol farsiwan mean Persian in English. Tajik, Persian, Iranian are synonym with each others

[@ia285]

@@medrissarwary464 nope, 'fars' means 'persian' like the ethnicity. 'Farsiwan' means Persian-speaker. Why don't you consider Hazaras as Persian as well? They also speak Persian.

[@jennb9730]

I absolutely love Persian culture & was teaching myself Farsi! ❤️ it’s so beautiful 😍

[@ebrahimstar657]

hi jennifer i am from iran and learning english if you want we can chat and teach to together thanks.

[@jennb9730]

ebrahim star what is your email?

[@komeilazimi6505]

چه عالی که زبان کشور ما رو دوست داری

[@banana-wb1rs]

جالبه

[@javadtavana5593]

یاد بگیر که باهم صحبت کنیم بانو

[@Bluedragonthekid]

tfw youre alone and bored on a friday but then langfocus uploads so everything is fine

[@unfetteredparacosmian]

Tfw you're procrastinating homework by watching langfocus

[@vyacheslavzgordan6725]

Awesome, all Persian grammar in 20 minutes!!! Started to learn Persian 4 days ago and this is tremendously useful. Thanks a lot!

[@slayedclaw317]

Why

[@vyacheslavzgordan6725]

@@slayedclaw317 why what?

[@mahnooshniakan1517]

such an informative video, I'm a native speaker and I can say for sure that this video gives the best introduction to Persian. Well Done!

[@Mr0T]

The fact that you can make a sentence using 19 verbs and nothing more is quite interesting Persian:verb by verb داشتم/میرفتم/دیدم/گرفته/نشسته/گفتم/بذار/بپرسم/ببینم/میاد/نمیاد/دیدم/میگه/نمیخوام/بیام/بذار/برم/بگیرم/بخوابم! English:word by word translation I was/going/I saw/(he,she) is sitting/I said/lets/ask(him,her)/see/(he.she) coming/not coming/I saw/(he,she) said/I don't want to/come/let me/go/get/sleep English: complete translation I was going that I saw (he/she) is sitting , I said lest ask (him/her) and see if (he/she) is coming or not, I saw (him/her) say i don't want to come, let me go, I want to get some sleep

[@TheMohammadkhan]

Greetings from Pakistan. Persian is such a beautiful language. Honestly, it's a treat to the ears and has a deep influence on Urdu, the language I speak and also on tons of other world languages. I'm learning Persian and can already understand it a lot. I'm also learning Turkish and Arabic and don't quite believe in nationalism. Visiting Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Middle East is on the top of my bucket list.

[@Muhammed-fv5kv]

@Cynical Skeptic I'm also Pakistani and everyone in Pakistan, I'd say 99% of us, speak Hindi fluently coz Hindi is just a fake version of Urdu. We are not interested in learning regional Indian languages though they sound too 'Hindu'. No offense but true, that's why even Muslims in India prefer speaking Urdu, not just in northern India but even in regional vernacular speaking Indian provinces in the south and east of India.

[@DrAbdulSattarMalikLecturerUrdu]

Wonderful! No doubt,your language profiles are very scienticific and linguistics based information.Ecellent job

[@hhbb7710]

i love Iranians love frome 🇩🇪🇩🇪❤🇮🇷

[@s1noxios262]

Love you too bro, from iran 🇮🇷

[@ehsanmousawi2998]

❤❤

[@akinoxx2003]

🇩🇪🤝🇮🇷❤💋💋💋💋💋

[@ocean3401]

❤❤❤

[@maryam.asadi97]

Iranians Love Germans a lot as well ♥️

[@mohammedkaram4082]

Love the Iranian accent😍love to Iran from a Kuwaiti of Iranian heritage

[@alib844]

drood brother

[@mehdikhody]

Asalam o alaykom ya akhi. Salam bar to ay baradar. Drod bar to ay baradar.

[@jester6029]

عع 😂😂😂

[@aleyzeeo-aleyzee2101]

I donno why people from Kuwait like the music of our language so much. ❤️

[@ninjamurai313]

Well that makes two of us…

[@ytilil7937]

the most challenging fact for me as a greek self taught guy from greece, i have to say is the differences between formal and colloquial farsi. if you always study the formal -written farsi you will have a struggle trying to speak the unofficial farsi .persians will be amazed and become happy when they see you trying to speak their language but speaking the formal way , will be to them like you are reading a poem !! its like when you are trying to speak somehow ancient greek , a formal way of speaking which was taking place at broadcasts in the radio or at newspapers years ago . if i could hear someone speaking like that would be strange and funny somehow

[@joshistyping]

I had no idea people still used Koiné Greek in modern life.

[@ytilil7937]

@@joshistyping actually it was used years ago in radio broadcasts and newspapers ! nowadays we only use the modern greek :)

[@daraarmand1221]

Since you probably won't address a conference in persian I would suggest you stick to informal. The good thing is when speaking informal persian you are bound to less rules and mistakes don't sound bad or even may come across as being inventive. I have moved to Cyprus recently and though I'm in love with the language I must admit the grammar is waaaay too complicated.

[@Theologos_Misantropos]

I'm learning Persian and i love it ماشاء الله thanks a lot for sharing this knowledge Langfocus.

[@th0r_0dinson]

Salam durud bar shuma from Palestine I love Iran and Persian language ❤

[@cryptoco4769]

Durud bar palestine 😘❤ im from iran

[@dr_disaster]

Is there any palestine any more What about Israel

[@imreza3643]

Oh. We Iranians always support Independence of Palestine. I hope...

[@yassin7817]

mersi love from iran

[@godness_arts]

Mamnoon. We love you to. We are brotherhood/sisterhood 😊😊❤❤

[@Koshteg]

As an Ossetian and Russian speaker I now realise that I'm going to learn Farsi. The language seems to be more familiar to me that I've ever imagine

[@lilray5470]

Arfæ iz Irana. I’m a Persian and I would also like to learn some Ossetian someday. The Ossetian cognates with Persian that I found on Glosbe and elsewhere were pretty interesting.

[@mgr1282]

Ossetian are a branch of iranic peoples

[@avskardi]

I’m 3/4 Azeri-Iranian and my grandmother was Ossetian from Georgia. She fled communism in the 30’s from Tbilisi to Tabriz then to Tehran. Unfortunately, she never learnt neither Ossetian nor Georgian, but she did speak Russian, Farsi, Torki (Azeri), English and French (I grew up in Geneva). I’d love to learn her two mother tongues, especially Ossetian, that seems so close to Farsi, that I speak fluently, but that sounds so similar to other Caucasian languages!

[@lilray5470]

M Gr, their language is one of the Iranic languages, but we‘ve been apart for a long long time and we’re all racially and culturally diverse.

[@lilray5470]

That’s interesting, Qafqazi Alenov. I’d never known of an Ossetian residing in Iran. Many Ossetians migrated to Asia Minor, Central Europe and other places and got assimilated. Fortunately, the language is still preserved in Ossetia.

[@Violet_xoxox]

As a native Persian speaker this just makes my heart happy Good luck! موفق باشی