Learning the language

I reckon it'll be worthwhile to have a smattering of Persian while we're there; Persian is an Indo-European language, so it can't be that hard to learn, right? (...especially as I speak a bit of Dutch too).

I'd picked up Lonely Planet's Farsi Phrase Book and Teach Yourself Modern Persian, but I've found Pimsleur's Farsi to be the best of the lot. The lessons are well-paced and short. I was delighted to be able to understand a very simple conversation after half an hour of practice. It turns out that Persian grammar is a bit like Irish and the guttural 'kh' sound is just like the Dutch soft 'g'. I think it sounds quite posh.



No, I don't know what he's saying either - yet.