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Basic Words and Phrases in Persian (Farsi)

Need a kick start on your Persian or Farsi language skills? Check out these basic words and phrases.

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Word of the Week

Computer
Arabic	combuter	كمبيوتر
French	ordi-na-teu	ordinateur
Hebrew	maCH-sev	מַחשֵב
Pashto	comp-e-oter	کمپیوتر
Persian	kAmpUter	کمپیوتر

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This week in the forum most of the discussion has been about this month's book club title The Janissary Tree. Hopefully some of our Iranian members will also chime in on how bad my Persian is!

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