Democracy 1/4: Persian (Farsi) Readings

A series of Persian (Farsi) textual readings. For details, please see http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• polyglottery
• Persian
• language
• Farsi

[Noregi]

Oh my god...what a beautiful language!

[juandilar2]

This dude is an extremely good linguist

[miguel0226]

Napakagandang wika ng Persian, masarap pakinggan ang kanyang tinig sa aking mga tainga. Sana matutunan ko rin siya balang araw. Sa ngayon ay marunong ako nitong Tagalog, English, at français. Sana madagdagan pa ang aking kaalaman sa mga linggwahe. :) Nagsisilbi kang isang inspirasyon, Ginoong Arguelles. Salamat. :)

[TeamLastNerve]

I saw you confused va with wa . wa is arabic, and va is farsi - the letters look the same

around 5:06

[durasdiurpaneus1]

@mysteriousDSF "baracă" means a temporary house, or a hut and it's of french origin.

Considering *bark(a), I have found, in the Romanian Ethymology Dictionary "tc., bg. barka, ngr. μτάρκα și βάρkα, alb. barkë.", with the meaning of "boat". Not being able to find a root in otoman turkish(as you suggested), I believe "barkácsol" might be an old iranic borrowing, dating from the proto-hungarian period(either persian or alanian).

[Spieldamelenium]

O_o is it European? Text is whati want to know alot of references to western Europe, but no reference to the Arab world, also would seam odd that their is no talk about what democracy is... Which I have assumed to be typically European.

[8Smitth]

your accent... is incredible

[goodcyrus]

Most Persians do not know much about the ancient Greece and the Greek roots of democracy. Is this text a translation of a western book? It has some informational content that makes me feel a non-Persian wrote it but it also has a huge historical error in understanding democracy that makes me feel a typical Persian wrote it.

[JigareTehroon]

My God you're amazing. You've picked a really hard text, yet you did a great job. Barrikala (well done)

[yurismir1]

I like this language. Does anyone know where I can hear clips of native speakers speaking it online?

[mysteriousDSF]

omg!!!! this is very interesting to me. I am Hungarian. I heard the first sentence, beginning with something like "barkararie". Then I heard the translation "establishment" and I was shock! we have a word in Hungarian "barkácsol" which means "to establish" (kinda in a countryside sense). I thought about Turkish that would have the root "bark" for establishment, building, but I couldn't find anything like this in google translator. what is the reason for this coincidence? ProfASAr?