Persian – ALI Egypt

Persian Language : Farsi

Persian Language is the predominant modern descendant of Old Persian, a southwestern Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan and some other regions which historically came under Persian influence.

The Persian language is classified as a continuation of Middle Persian, the official religious and literary language of Sassanid Persia, itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Persian is a pluricentric language and its grammar is similar to that of many contemporary European languages.

Persian is so-called due to its origin from the capital of the Achaemenid empire, Persis (Fars or Pars) hence the name Persian (Farsi or Parsi). A Persian-speaking person may be referred to as Persephone.

There are approximately 110 million Persian speakers worldwide, with the language holding official status in Iran, Afghanistan, andTajikistan. For centuries, Persian has also been a prestigious cultural language in other regions of Western Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia by the various empires based in the regions.

Persian has had a considerable (mainly lexical) influence on neighboring languages, particularly the Turkic languages in Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia, neighboring Iranian languages, as well as Armenian, Georgian, and Indo-Aryan languages, especially Urdu. It also exerted some influence on Arabic, particularly Bahrani Arabic, while borrowing much vocabulary from it after the Muslim conquest of Persia.

Persian Levels in A.L.I

Stage 1: Elementary

Number of levels : Level 1 – Level 2

Duration: 15 Lectures in a private course

Stage 2: Intermediate

Number of levels : Level 3 – Level 4

Duration: 15 Lectures in a private course

Stage 3 : Advanced

Number of levels : Level 5 – Level 6

Duration: 15 Lectures in a private course

Advanced Stages :

Conversation :

Number of levels : level 1 –level 2