Questions parents ask

Yes. The first lesson starts at the first letter, Alef. Every word is shown with its sound, its spelling in English letters and its meaning.

Speaking and reading are different skills, and most of the path is about reading and writing. A placement check at the start skips the letters you already know.

Both. Fârsi is the language's name in Persian; in English it's usually called Persian. It's the language spoken in Iran.

No. It's simple and playful enough for a 5-year-old, and adults learn with it too: grown-ups who never learned to read Persian, and people who married into an Iranian family and want the culture as well as the language.

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