Journal Entry 10
Unfortunately, Mahshad and I had to skip this week as well due to Nowruz. That being said, this was also the first week I am able to start working with Arya. My goal here is to understand some of the differences between Dari and Farsi. The pronunciation differences are noticeable, with Dari preserving certain things that are orthographically represented, but not pronounced in Farsi, and vice versa (e.g. the word for sister in Persian is spelled like it should be pronounced “xwāhar” in the Perso-Arabic script, but is pronounced “xāhar” in Farsi, but “xwār” in Dari.). There is also a significant difference in introductory and basic conversational words and structures, so I will be reviewing more with Arya and seeing if I can obtain some materials for Dari specifically.
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