Yavar Dehghani, “Persian-English/English-Persian Learner’s Dictionary”, 2008 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Judith Meyer, “Persian Script Hacking for Beginners”, 2020, PART THREE (3).
INTRODUCTION.
The problem of learning the Persian script is that it is a consonant-writing system. Vowel are omitted from the representation of the spoken language. The reader recognizes numbers in identifying words. Judith Meyer approaches the learning to read Persian by focusing on individual letters. Example’s of the Judith Meyer method are BELOW.
ن EXAMPLE find six (6) ن in the paragraph below.
ی EXAMPLE find twelve (12) ی in paragraph below. Nine (9) in the initial or medial form, and four (4) in the final or isolated form.
COMMENTS.
The following is a list of Persian words in-the-order of letters they contain. The English words: and (1), at (2), bad (2&3), all (3), … etcetera. You will be able to build up a Persian vocabulary after learning how the Persian consonant-script works by using the Judith Meyer book. The reader recognizes numbers in identifying words.
| # | English | Persian |
| 1 | and | و ( va) |
| 2 | at | به (be)’ |
| 2.3 | bad | بد (bad), زشت (zešt) |
| 3 | all | همه (hame) |
| 3 | back | پشت (pošt) |
| 3 | because | چون (čon) |
| 3 | belly | شکم(šekam) |
| 3 | blood | خون (xun) |
| 3 | cloud | ابر (abr) |
| 3 | cold | سرد (sard) |
| 3.4 | child | بچه (bačče), کودک(kudak) |
| 4 | bark (of a tree) | پوست (pust) |
| 4 | big | بزرگ(bozorg) |
| 4 | black | سیاه (siyâh) |
| 4 | breast | سینه (sine) |
| 4.4 | correct | درست(dorost), راست (râst) |
| 5 | bird | پرنده(parande) |
| 5.5 | animal | حیوان(heyvân), جانور(jânvar) |
| 6 | ash | خاکستر(xâkestar) |
| 7 | bone | استخوان(ostoxân) |
