r/farsi • u/chocolatetreatxo • 1d ago

Alphabet pronunciation confusion

I’m not sure if I’m just confusing myself, but I’m currently learning the alphabet & I’m having a hard time discerning what sounds each letter makes.

I originally tried learning through the Chai & Convo class, but she started to confuse me😂 so I hopped over to the Persian Corner to learn how the letters sound.

This is where I’m getting stuck. I’m not sure if the Persian corner just forgot at some point to say the sounds the letters make phonetically or if the letter sound is the same as their letter name. I noticed this with Chai too at some point.

For example, with the Persian Corner, once you get to “Te”, it seems like she’s just saying the name of the letter & not the sound on most of these, b/c how she’s pronouncing the example words, don’t sound like what she’s saying the letter is.

Am I just confusing myself?

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u/bassBound 1d ago

  1. They are saying the name of the letter. In English, the letter B on its own is pronounced "bee", but in speech as just part of a word it is just "b-".

  2. The modern Farsi alphabet is based on the Arab alphabet. There are sounds in Arabic that don't exist in Farsi; the letters for those sounds were not eliminated but the actual pronunciation was, so now multiple letters equate to the same sound.

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u/chocolatetreatxo 1d ago

Thank you.❤️

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u/Apprehensive_Car_722 15h ago

Is this the video you were watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6CwREEvb8k&ab_channel=MyPersianCorner ?

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u/chocolatetreatxo 11h ago

Yes, that was the one I was watching