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Persian/Arabic advice please

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maydayayday
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Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese
Studies: Urdu

 
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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
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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
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09 October 2010 at 11:33am | IP Logged 
Many thanks Jomana


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