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Basics

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Intro to the Alphabet
BasicsBasics
19 words/phrases to learn
Learning More Letters
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20 words/phrases to learn
Adding to the Alphabet
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19 words/phrases to learn

Most popular Persian Lessons for this topic

Intro to the Alphabet

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19 words/phrases

Learning More Letters

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20 words/phrases

Adding to the Alphabet

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19 words/phrases

Mastering the Alphabet

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20 words/phrases

Vowels and Additional Characters

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22 words/phrases

Basic Expressions

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19 words/phrases

Polite Expressions

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18 words/phrases

How We Feel

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19 words/phrases

Are you OK?

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15 words/phrases

Misunderstandings

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17 words/phrases

Basic Needs

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19 words/phrases

Asking Questions

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20 words/phrases

To Go

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20 words/phrases

Plurals vs Objects

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14 words/phrases

Plurals vs People

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12 words/phrases

Numbers

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16 words/phrases

And It Went Like This

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12 words/phrases

Opening Times

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14 words/phrases

Days of the Week

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15 words/phrases

Months

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15 words/phrases

Every Week Activities

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11 words/phrases

We Can!

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17 words/phrases

Colours

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17 words/phrases

At What Time?

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14 words/phrases

Rooms & Floors

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15 words/phrases

Numbers: 11 to 100

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20 words/phrases

My Wardrobe 1

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20 words/phrases

The Seasons

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4 words/phrases

Adverbs of Time

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11 words/phrases

To Be ...

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18 words/phrases

... Or Not To Be

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8 words/phrases

Possessives 1 (Bound Pronouns)

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12 words/phrases

Possessives 2 (Free Pronouns)

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11 words/phrases

Present Tense Verbs 1

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14 words/phrases

Present Tense Verbs 2

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13 words/phrases

Compound Verbs

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10 words/phrases

My Wardrobe 2

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16 words/phrases

Measuring Things

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16 words/phrases

Useful Expressions 2

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19 words/phrases

Times of the Day

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17 words/phrases

1st, 2nd, 3rd...

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12 words/phrases

Furniture

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19 words/phrases

Belongings

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16 words/phrases

Large Numbers

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10 words/phrases

How Long Will It Take?

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12 words/phrases

What Just Happened?

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13 words/phrases

Ways to Say Thank You

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8 words/phrases

How to Say Happy Birthday

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3 words/phrases

Numbers in Persian

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11 words/phrases

Types of Feelings

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7 words/phrases

Time-related Words

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5 words/phrases

Colours in Persian

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9 words/phrases

Ignored by Mum and Dad

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3 words/phrases

For My Dear

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2 words/phrases

Geography Class

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1 words/phrases

Putting on Makeup

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1 words/phrases

Pretty Please

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2 words/phrases

A Video Call

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6 words/phrases

A Sick Flatmate

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3 words/phrases

No Time for Breakfast

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2 words/phrases

Forgetting Something?

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1 words/phrases

Phone Call For You

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4 words/phrases

I Need Water!

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3 words/phrases

Alef and Be

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3 words/phrases

An Awkward Encounter

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3 words/phrases

Let's Annoy Dad

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3 words/phrases

Good Night

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2 words/phrases

I Need Coffee!

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1 words/phrases

Food Fight

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3 words/phrases

An Awkward Phone Call

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7 words/phrases

What's in the Bag?

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2 words/phrases

Hide and Seek

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5 words/phrases

A Sick Colleague

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3 words/phrases

Let's Go

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2 words/phrases

Missing the Train

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1 words/phrases

Today's Lesson

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4 words/phrases

My Name Is...

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4 words/phrases

Heavy Bags

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6 words/phrases

Feeling Hungry

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4 words/phrases

When a Stranger Calls

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5 words/phrases

Questions at a Restaurant

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9 words/phrases

Do you Speak Persian?

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6 words/phrases

Can I Charge my Phone?

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3 words/phrases

Hot and Cold

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2 words/phrases

I Don't Understand

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5 words/phrases

A Confusing Call

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10 words/phrases

What's on the Menu?

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2 words/phrases

Tea or Coffee?

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8 words/phrases

Bumping into Someone

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9 words/phrases

A Needy Child

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6 words/phrases

Missing a Friend

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10 words/phrases

Phone Call from Mum

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6 words/phrases

Are You Sick?

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2 words/phrases

Getting a Gift

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2 words/phrases

Text from a Crush

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5 words/phrases

Taste Test

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4 words/phrases

Welcome!

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1 words/phrases

Tea Party

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6 words/phrases

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