Universal Reading

[Chelsie Darner]

1. Languages I am currently studying in linguistic terms.Farsi:Morphological – agglutinative – uses sufficesVerbs express tense and they also refer back to the subject and quantitySyntactic Structure – OV, SOV – prepositional phrases are normally positioned before the VerbRussian: Morphological – syntheticSyntactic Structure – the sentence structure is not highly dependent on word order2. Important Characteristic:Persian makes extensive use of word building and combining affixes, stems, nouns and adjectives.For verbs, knowing the suffixes that refer back to the pronoun or person the sentence is about.There are 6 vowels, which are written into the words; are shown as symbols either about or below the consonant.3. I will focus on the formation of words using the symbols to indicate vowel sounds, so as to improve my reading and comprehension of the words.

[Global Studio]

Can you give one or two representative examples of the use of pre-, in-, and/or suffixes (lumped together as affixes)?

How will knowing the Persian is an agglutinative language help you learn?

Good idea to focus on the symbols of the vowel sounds. Are these symbols used in 'everyday' Persian or just for learners?