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Learn Farsi (Persian) — free

Farsi-jān helps you learn to read and speak Persian (Farsi) — the everyday, spoken Tehrani kind, not just textbook grammar. It's free, private, and works in your browser or as an app on your phone.

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Who it's for

Farsi-jān is built first for heritage speakers — second-generation Iranians who grew up hearing Persian, understand a lot, but freeze when it's their turn to speak. If that's you, this app meets you where you are: it reactivates the Farsi you already half-know instead of starting you at "hello" like everyone else.

It also works well if you're a complete beginner, learning for a partner, family, travel, or study. The same lessons that fill a heritage speaker's gaps teach a newcomer the real, spoken language from the start.

What you'll learn

Real replies & conversation — what to actually say to family, in a taxi, at a shop, with elders, when texting — including tone (warm, formal, funny, the famous tarof).
Spoken Tehrani — how written Persian becomes spoken (miravam → miram), the contractions and colloquial forms native speakers really use.
The Persian alphabet — an optional, no-pressure reading path that decodes the script onto sounds you already know.
Pronunciation — the sounds heritage speakers and learners get wrong (kh, the rolled/tapped r, ā vs a) and where the stress falls.
Vocabulary that fills real gaps — the mid-frequency words you reach for and don't have, plus a searchable glossary.
Culture & charisma — tarof, condolences, congratulations, humor, and the social moves that make you sound like an insider.

How it works

A short placement test finds what you already know and skips it. Then you get a guided path of bite-size lessons and daily practice, with spaced repetition so what you learn actually sticks. Everything stays on your device — no account, no ads, nothing sold.

Why "learn the spoken language" matters

Most Farsi courses teach formal, written Persian — useful for reading, useless for the dinner table. Heritage speakers and travelers don't need press-release Farsi; they need to reply naturally, understand a joke, and not sound stiff with relatives. Farsi-jān is designed around that real, conversational goal.

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