describe the way in which Americans respond to unfamiliar‚ foreign names. Dumas presents this engaging essay that holds the reader’s attention by making it a very fun piece to read. This work was originally incorporated into an excerpt titled “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (2003). This essay written by Firoozeh Dumas utilizes the appeal of emotion and the use of an informal‚ entertaining tone to draw in the audience. She starts out by using a mix of sympathy and humor and
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A Beautiful Life A Beautiful Life written by Michael Futcher and Helen Howard in 1998 is a brave piece of contemporary Australian Theatre‚ exploring the controversial and much debated issue of immigration in Australia‚ while providing a highly symbolic‚ poignant and emotional experience for the audience. This play is based on the memories of an Iranian refugee (Hamid)‚ his wife (Jhila) and their son (Amir) who settled in Australia in the 1980s‚ focusing on how their cultural background ultimately
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A Brief History of Persian poetry: One of the most noble forms of literature is poetry. Over the centuries Persian and non-Persian poets have written their poems in the Persian language‚ Farsi‚ and it’s variations. Even though the Farsi language has changed over time the ancient poems are still readable. Iranians highly value their poets who kept their culture and language alive even during numerous invasions. Persian poetry is as ancient as Avesta (the holy book of Zoroastrians) where first form
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9-711-088 REV: SEPTEMBER 16‚ 2011 DANTE ROSCINI JONATHAN SCHLEFER KONSTANTINOS DIMITRIOU The Greek Crisis: Trag k gedy or Oppor rtunity? ? By November 2010‚ Georg Papaconst y ge tantinou‚ the Greek fina e ance minister was pract r‚ tically oblivi ious to the daily chants of protesters in Constituti d o ion Square outside his of ffice. He pon ndered wheth the polici his gover her ies rnment had adopted over the past yea would allo it to avoi the a r ar ow id restru ucturing of it public
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mean the same persons or places but they are completely different from one to another and confusing. These examples are some of the names that I am aware of in Farsi and in English‚ perhaps every language has its share of the confusion. When I was learning English‚ it would make it impossible for me to connect to my learned knowledge in Farsi to English that had massively created misunderstanding and difficulties to the point that I did not know who was who and what was
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proficiency test and select those students ‚ who their scores are higher than the others. Step 2; he divided the participants randomly in two groups. By this way‚ two classes of participant will be made and English chunks are taught‚ using Arabic and Farsi in two different classes. Step 3 ; In The first class‚ which consist of 50 Arabs students‚ English chunks are taught by the learners L1 equivalence ‚Arabic‚ and the second class are other 50 Arabs students‚ whom are taught English chunks by Persian
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Persian (Fārsī-ye Darī) also known as Afghan Persian. other Turkic and minor languages. Armenia Armenian (Hayeren) is an independent‚ one-language subgroup within the Indo-European language family. The unique Armenian alphabet‚ which consists of 39 characters‚ was created in 405 AD by a monk named Mesrop Mashtots. Russian widely used Azerbaijan Azerbaijani (Azeri; a Turkic language of the Altaic family) 89% Russian 3%‚ Armenian 2%‚ other 6% Bahrain Arabic (Arabiyya) English‚ Farsi‚ Urdu
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In many conversations throughout the book‚ we see many of the characters speaking Farsi or using a Farsi word during a conversation or when referring to someone. In fact‚ Amir refers to his father as “Baba” throughout the entire novel (the equivalent of “dad” in Farsi). This technique is useful as it gives the reader a more realistic view on the story since all of the events are occurring in a foreign country where English
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Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 1. Farsi Maddarsa Muradabad He establised a Farsi Maddarsa at Muradabad in 1859. It was the starting point of Sir Syed’s Educational struggle. In this Maddarsa‚ English is also taught besides English. 2. Victoria School Ghazipur Sir Syed establised first modern Victoria School at Ghazipur (1864). In this school‚ besides Modern Education five languages (English‚ Urdu‚ Arabic‚ Persian and Sanskrit) were also taught. 3. Establishment of Scientific
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from language to language. In English for instance‚ the subject of a sentence comes up first and then the action. In languages such as Turkish or Farsi‚ the action comes before the subject. For example‚ if a person were to say “I will clean‚” in English‚ the subject comes up front first and then the action that the subject acts upon comes after. But in Farsi‚ the
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