maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5220 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 1 of 3 08 October 2010 at 4:07pm | IP Logged |
Calling all Arabic/Persian speakers !
A friend of mine has married an Iranian guy whose English is not very good. He would scrape A1 from what I have heard of him speak on the telephone. I have agreed to give him ESOL lessons (I am qualified) on a 1:1 basis for the next six months, on the grounds I'll have a Persian native to help when I get round to Persian next year.
She feels that she ought to learn Farsi which is obviously written in أبجدية عربية. I am unsure whether the reading of Persian and the reading of Arabic are identical. I can help her learn to read Arabic but don't want to lead her down the wrong path.
I have pointed her towards easypersian.com but for my own interest how close are the two readings? Wikipedia didn't help !
Many thanks in advance.
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Jomana Newbie Russian Federation Joined 6128 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes
| Message 2 of 3 09 October 2010 at 7:58am | IP Logged |
here is the differences of pronunciation but the writing system is the same
arabic / persian
و / v
ط ت / both t identical to Arabic ت
ذ ظ ض ز / all z identical to arabic ز
ق / gh or k or q identical to arabic غ sometimes ك or ق depends on the dialect
ث س ص / all s identical to arabic س
ع / a identical to arabic همزة
ح / h identical to arabic هـ
4 letters are not in arabic
چ as English ch
گ English g (goal)
پ English p
ژ zh or as English j in pleasure
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5220 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 3 of 3 09 October 2010 at 11:33am | IP Logged |
Many thanks Jomana
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