What I knew before this course
1. Unlike western languages, Persian is written and read from right to left.
2. Persian consists of 32 letters. Some of the letters have small and big form and others have only one form.
3. There non letter characters that are used to make up vowels.
The next step was to be able to recognize the letter from alphabet that I knew.The first exercise that I needed to do before starting reading was to understand how each letter gets combined with the next one. After that I was able to recognize those letter in a word and by combining the sounds of each letter I was able to make up the word. Then to become really good at it I was writing words myself combining them and creating a word.
Having been able to read slowly, Sofia started the reading exercises which were reading children stories. At the beginning it was very hard, not knowing some Persian words made even more harder to make up that word. The important factor for improving my reading was to read over and over again, so I will be able to understand why that words spelled like that, understand the meaning of the story and become faster in my reading.
By following these strategies I have read four stories and improved my reading speed and it made reading itself much more easier and less frustrating.
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