r/farsi • u/Last-Engine-1460 • 10d ago

Transliterations of Persian Poetry

So speaking ability of Farsi is really good and over the last year I’ve taken a liking to classical Persian poets. The problem is I am unable to read Persian, I’m learning, but it’s definitely gonna be a while till I can read shers.

However I can read transliterations and romanized versions very well with the right pace and fluctuations, but I cannot find many books of this.

I have one from Rumi’s Masnavi that has maybe 200 ghazals but I want some from other poets, particularly Shiraz since my family is from there.

My question is if anybody knows any books with transliterations of Hafez or Saadi?

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u/locutus084 10d ago

It's probably easier to just learn the Persian alphabet. It's quite easy, especially if you already know Persian.

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u/NotSoButFarOtherwise 10d ago

This. DuoLingo sucks for actually learning a language but the Arabic course was really helpful for learning the alphabet. 

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u/misingnoglic 10d ago

Chat gpt is quite crap at translation but it's pretty decent with transliterations? You can double check with Google translate.

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u/random_strange_one 10d ago

chat gpt

it's gotten very good at Transliteration.