This is by far the best Persian Language app for non-Persian students that I have ever seen. Building a language learning application is complex and requires extensive research into human behaviour. This app is simple to use and has all the required sub-links i.e. Translation, Transliterations, glossary etc. The pace is flawlessly measured to perfections with all of the buttons in the right place and easily accessible. Great job done. Please keep the site going as it is one of the best free language learning sites around that happens to be of a commercial grade standard. Amazing job!!

Congrats for the quality of your website. It’s going to be of precious help in the weeks and months ahead to help me improve my speaking/comprehension skills and explore Persian. Much better than the method I had been using so far. Thanks.

An excellent resource which is helping me tremendously in terms of learning pronunciation, difference between written and spoken Persian and grammar. Well done and please continue with the good work.

Thank you very much for creating this site. I am so glad I found it. It was actually by chance from one Persian learning group on Facebook. This is an excellent tool!!!!! I hope you can promote it more, so it comes up on the top on the google search. I wish they had it for Arabic and other languages too.

As someone who is semi-fluent in French and Italian and who takes an interest in languages as an academic pursuit I want to say that the course you’ve created is, without any exaggeration at all, the best I’ve ever come across. The degree of thought and intelligence that has gone into creating the course is seriously impressive and it is far and away better than any of the standard courses available commercially, almost all of which I’ve accessed at one time or another.

Where almost every single other course in Persian fails is the total lack of discussion surrounding colloquial, spoken language. This is so serious that it makes virtually all the currently available courses practically useless in any situation other than reading a child’s book. I’m yet to understand why anyone would produce a course on Persian without including in it the living, spoken form of the language; a person who learns formal “book Persian” will be utterly lost in any basic daily conversation in Iranian society.

The next area in which your course is so impressive is the sheer size of the vocabulary. I’ve been studying Persian for three years now and I was pleasantly surprised to find dozens of compound verbs in your course that I’d never come across before, not to mention the sheer breadth of general vocabulary the course contains. Yours is, yet again, the only course I’ve seen to even touch the areas of IT and computing! It’s mindboggling to see over a dozen recent Persian courses that don’t even mention daily matters such as checking one’s email or looking for something online; virtually every one of these courses will mention the Shahnameh but not even print the word “computer” in their books!!

I recently spoke to a friend who was about to purchase one of the readily available courses in Persian and I told him not to bother, but to simply go online and use your course instead. Not only do I believe that the commercially available courses are pointless, but that the persianlanguageonline course would genuinely bring a learner to that oft-repeated status of “conversational fluency”. The only other course that I’ve seen which is as well-constructed as yours is the Farsi Shirin Ast course, aimed at the more advanced learner.

So this is just a message to thank you all for a fantastic course which I would recommend to absolutely everybody learning Persian. There is nothing out that there that even remotely comes close to it.

I’m learning Farsi in a very grammar-oriented class and your website is providing exactly what I missed: Vocabulary with sound, interactive learning, spoken vs. written farsi. As a language teacher myself I appreciate the settings on your website. It’s very motivating to learn this way

The site is really amazing, very well formatted and easily digested. Compared to many other sites this is above and beyond the best resource that I’ve found. It’s really ideal for autodidacts such as myself. Though it does help I have access to someone who speaks the language natively, this site is still enormously helpful. I also know other people who are able to speak Persian, but are unable to read or write, and find this site enormously helpful to learn that added skill and reconnect with their heritage.

Just wanted to drop an email to say thank you for setting up this website and the tireless work of all the trustees as well as the late Dr. Sattaripour. It’s a really amazing website and has helped so much in learning Farsi. I can finally feel like I have the resources I need, and can actually converse with some friends of mine, as well as hopefully (one day) read some Persian literature and poetry. Just wanted to give a big big thank you for the site 🙂

I just wanted to say that this site is well done. I first tried to learn Persian on my own several years ago and found not many resources to be available. The best I could really do was a phrase book and a few internet pages about grammar. Eventually I cobbled together my own complicated “workflow” to learn, but this site includes many of features I had to find in separate locations — transliteration, translation, and audio for given phrases and words.

I can’t believe that your wonderful website is for free! Like another person who recommends your course, I was an EFL teacher for many years. I am familiar with many language courses and yours is superb. I just wish there was a dictionary done with the care that you have put into this course. There are languages courses which teach ABOUT the language but leave you unable to speak with any confidence. It is of course, necessary to know some grammar. But I have found that fluency, even at a low level, is the element which gives confidence.. You build up from there.

Thank you for developing this awesome app. My son loves it! It was such needed tool for the Iranians living outside and thanks for taking initiative for finding ways to keep the language and culture alive.

Hi! I just wanted to say THANK YOU! You have put together a beautiful website, it is learner friendly and very well structured and organized!! It is the only website that has been so helpful! Thank you for writing the words in Roman alphabet too. I just wanted to say thank you! Mersi!