Week #6

[Laura Major]

This week my language partner and I practiced forming words in Farsi. Each Farsi letter can be connected which is similar to writing the English alphabet in cursive. Many of the letters change its form completely to connect to the next letter and some letters cannot connect at all. I learned that the Farsi alphabet is mostly composed of consonants and that each consonant has an implied vowel sound of a, e, or o. The Arabic alphabet normally has a symbol around the consonant to imply which vowel sound is going to be used but with Farsi, its mostly a lot of recognition of the word as the symbols are not used. This makes reading Farsi very difficult because I am not familiar with much Farsi vocabulary so I usually do not know how to pronounce the word I am reading. This week we also worked on learning numbers which are also written differently in Farsi. We are preparing ourselves for a quiz the next week we come back after Spring break to see how much we have learned.