Chapter 17 of 17 · Explore the Farsi path
Reading · Chapter 17 of 17
Try your first book
Read the opening of Mina and the Rain with help, then open it in Green Hill. Practise using the translation when a sentence has words you haven’t met.
≈ 4 min of reading · Practise at your own pace
What’s in this chapter
- Start with the Green Hill fables. They use a smaller set of words than the longer books.
- Read the Farsi line before looking across at English.
- Tap an important unknown word once, read its meaning, and continue.
- Come back to a chapter when you need a reminder.
- After Green Hill, move to Winnie-the-Pooh, then Doctor Dolittle.
You’ll find new words and longer sentences in a book. Keep the translation nearby. You now know to look for missing vowels, gaps inside words, ezafe, را
Start with the title and first sentence from Mina and the Rain. Read the Farsi first, then compare the English beside it.
Read the title and first sentence
Start with what you recognise, then use the English for the new words. You’re practising how to read with help, not testing whether you know every word.
مینا و باران
minâ o bârân
Mina and the Rain
مینا موش خاکستری کوچکی بود.
minâ mush-e khâkestari-ye kucheki bud.
Mina was a small grey mouse.
Then take one more line with support
در سوراخی زیر یک دیوار سنگی زندگی میکرد.
dar surâkhi zir-e yek divâr-e sangi zendegi mikard.
She lived in a hole under a stone wall.
Your first book pause
Try these before you open the reader.
- بود
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بودbud “was” — the verb comes at the end of the first sentence. - در سوراخی
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در سوراخیdar surâkhi “in a hole” - What should you do when one word blocks you?
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Look it up in the reader, keep the translation nearby, and continue. You can return later without promising yourself the whole book at once.