Our Farsi courses have been designed to build fluency in both the spoken and
the written language. Communication in a warm and relaxed environment is an
important feature of our programs, as is homework, which includes exercises for
review and practice of the material taught in class. Moreover, by keeping the
class size limited to twelve students, we ensure that each student will be able
to actively participate.
Level 1 Farsi is an introduction to Modern Farsi (Persian). The course covers the
phonology and the fundamentals of Farsi syntax with conversational proficiency
as the primary goal. Students learn to read and write the Farsi alphabet and
gain proficiency by reading and writing simple texts. Upon completion of this
course, students can expect to be able to greet others appropriately and to
participate in basic conversations about a range of everyday activities. Topics
include simple sentence structure, interrogatives, personal pronouns,
expressions of time and season, and present and past verb tenses.
Level 2 Farsi Upon completion of Level Two, students should be able to engage
in more sophisticated conversations on a range of everyday topics. Building
upon the basic skills studied in Level One, students gain skill using prepositions,
adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, direct and indirect object pronouns
and the future tense.
