Journal Entry 4
My goals for these current weeks are to have a solid understanding of Persian verbs and how they work. Persian has a somewhat complex compound verb system and so the goal for this week is to understand how these work together. Additionally, one of my current issues is that I default to a very “Arabic” way of pronouncing Persian, likely because of the Arabic writing system, and I would like to “re-train” how my brain perceives the writing system. It’ll take a few weeks to get out of this habit, but one of the things I’m starting now is listening to BBC Persian. I can just barely understand the most basic concepts when listening to it, but I am trying to get used to the cadences and stress patterns of Persian.
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