Free Persian learning resources
18 free resources, checked and categorised.
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Everything below is free to use — no trial periods and no paywalls. The list covers the main ways people study Persian: structured courses to build a foundation, dictionaries to look things up, and listening and reading material to spend real time in the language. Start with one course and one dictionary, then add listening once you can follow simple sentences.
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Persian language survival kit.
Persian course from University of Texas with audio files
More than 30 lessons with audio, alphabet, tests, colloquial Persian and texts.
"A place to learn and discuss Farsi as well as Iranian culture."
Even more links sorted by categories and with better descriptions :)
"This site offers Farsi (Persian) lessons online, from Phrases, Persian Alphabet, Numbers, Adjectives, Words, Farsi Vocabulary and Farsi Translation used in Iran. Most of the lessons contain expressions used for the everyday life conversations; through them you can learn how to say specific sentences."
"Man i really recommend a channel called reza nazari he is a teacher for more than 7 years i think, and he uploads videos every day reviewing different content from a book he wrote loaded with 100 conversations (the book is free). His channel is really good i learned the alphabet in two days with his help, he teaches the written and spoken form so you will have a vast vocabulary and decent knowledge of farsi"
Learn it there, practise it here
Free resources are great for input — reading, listening, explanations. They are weaker at the two things that actually move you forward: speaking Persian out loud, and remembering what you met once. That is what OwnSlides is for.
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This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources — a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.