This week I’m beginning to learn how to express events that previously happened in Persian. To accomplish this it is necessary to be able to name days of the week.
Luckily, Farsi/Dari has a relatively intuitive way of naming days of the week. With the exception of Friday (jama) every day is formed by adding a numerical suffice to Saturday (shanba) for example, Sunday and Monday would be (yek shanba) and (do shanba) where yek means ‘one’ and do means ‘two’.
To form a sentence, one could use a subject, day of the week a direct object and a past-tense verb to form a complete thought. For example, man se shanba senf raftam, meaning, I went to class on Tuesday.
With Modern Hebrew I am continuing to work on reading and understanding simple text. Below I have copied a narrative passage I can now fully pronounce (somewhat correctly) and understand in terms of meaning. (I apologize for the poor quality)
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