فارسی — Persian, Taught Through Story
Persian, taught the way I learned to love it
Three doors into the language: culture, story, and structured course work. Start wherever pulls you in.
Why Story First
Grammar is easier to love in the middle of a good story
Most Persian courses start with the alphabet and a grammar table. I start with a story worth finishing — usually the tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh — and let curiosity pull the grammar along behind it. You’ll still learn the structure of the language properly; you’ll just meet it while you’re already invested in what happens next.
From Students
What learning this way feels like
I finally understood verb conjugation because I actually needed it to know what happened to Sohrab.
Culture Lab made Nowruz make sense in a way three years of casual exposure never did.
This is the first time studying a language has felt like reading, not memorizing.
Ready to begin?
The course starts with a story, not a syllabus.