Persian/Farsi

[Meera]

I can understand Persian pretty well, but I can't speak it that well. I really would love to learn it well. Anyway if anyone else is interested in it, here are some good links for it:

http://www.chaiandconversation.com/

(to learn spoken Persian, this podcast is the best! I highly recommend it)

http://www.easypersian.com/

http://shahriar.tripod.com/persian/titlepage.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/languages/persian/

http://sites.la.utexas.edu/persian_online_resources/culture-video/greetings/

http://persian.nmelrc.org/index.html

[Meera]

Persian Radio's:

https://www.radiojavan.com/

http://www.radiodoost.com/

http://www.670amkirn.com/

http://www.radiogolha.com/

http://radiodarvish.rad.io/

[Hedonologist]

How did you come to understand Persian? Did you pick it up naturally or was it something you studied. I take it from being a native pashto speaker you must have had quite a bit of exposure. The links look quite interesting, thanks for sharing.

[Meera]

The only reason I understand it is because most of Afghan TV and music is in the Afghan dialect of Persian. I have always been surrounded by Iranian Persian too because Afghans tend to watch Iranian movies and Iranian tv. We also listen to Iranian music. It's the same reason why a lot of us understand Hindi/Urdu also because of the movies, tv and music. Plus many Afghans live in both Iran and Pakistan.