Farsi With Pops

You can speak Persian on your first morning in Tehran. Not read it, not memorize tables — speak it, and understand the answer that comes back. Farsi With Pops is a sixteen-chapter spoken course built the way the best audio language courses have always worked: an English guide explains one small idea, a native speaker says it, you say it yourself in the pause, and the course quietly builds that idea into the next one until you are making sentences you were never taught as sentences. No alphabet lessons. No grammar charts. Just the engine of everyday spoken Persian, one piece at a time.

The course follows a traveler through Iran, written for the day the country fully reopens to visitors: salām and the polite -in endings, the elaborate courtesy Iranians call ta'ārof, the taxi and the bus, tea and kabab, bargaining in the bazaar, the squares and bridges of Isfahan, the wind towers of Yazd, dinner in an Iranian family home, the pharmacy and the doctor, and the poets' tombs and gardens of Shiraz. It teaches the Persian people actually speak in Tehran, not the formal written language, voiced by a native Persian speaker, with a second native voice as the driver, the shopkeeper, the receptionist and the host. It closes with a grand review and a gift: the Persian words you already own in English.

Compiled and edited by Pops. The narration is produced with digital voices.