Madina speaks Farsi along with about 40 million other people. It is the most widely spoken Persian language and used mainly in Afghanistan and Iran. She writes right to left and it looks like a bunch of little squiggles to me. She loves my white board in my office. One day she was practicing the English alphabet and writing the Farsi letter equivalent. You’ll notice in the picture she wrote the English A, drew a separation line and wrote the Farsi A. I think they have more letters in their alphabet, but she stopped at our Z. She was laughing at my attempt to match up the letters and write her name. I guess it doesn’t work like that. She erased that and wrote the names of her family using our English letters. Their names are:
Padar = Father “Yasin”
Madar = Mother “Nazifa”
Twin Brother “Masan”
Baby Sister “Marva”
I have learned to say “Hello” and “Goodbye” in Farsi, but I have no clue how to spell it.
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