Language/Iranian-persian/Pronunciation/Farsi-vs-Arabic

Hello again everyone!

I am MJ Mahdizadeh and now we have a new lesson on Farsi.

Most people around the world think that Farsi and Arabic are not really different. This is one of the big common mistakes in learning about Iran and our language, Farsi.

Although Arabic and Farsi have many different things, I consider the difference in pronunciation as the most important difference between two languages.

First there are some Farsi alphabets that do not exist Arabic.

• They are: گ-چ-پ-ژ.

Second, each letter of Arabic alphabet has its own pronunciation but Farsi is not like that. In Farsi you have some alphabet letters that share the common pronunciation.

• Look at these: ذ-ز-ظ-ض

These letters have different and specific pronunciation of their own in Arabic. But in Farsi there are all like each other in speaking, like ز (z in English).

• We can also see the same thing about these ones: ث-س-ص

• And also this letters: ت-ط

in Arabic the pronunciation of ط is more harder than ت. but in Farsi we pronunce same both of them. Exactly like T in TIME!

So I hope you can focus on differences between two languages when you are learning them.

Good luck.