Farsi Alphabet: A Visual Map
Like Duolingo, but for Farsi Alphabet: A Visual Map. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 9 levels across 2 sections, about 18 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Shape Families and Connecting the Dots. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Farsi Alphabet: A Visual Map
- The base shape (boat) is identical for B, T, P, and S
- The number and position of dots are the only ways to tell these letters apart
- One dot below is 'B' (Beh)
- Three dots below is 'P' (Peh)
- Dots below the line indicate 'B' or 'P' sounds
- Identify the phonetic value of the boat letters based on dot placement
- Distinguish between the single-dot 'B' and the three-dot 'P' below the line
- Dots inside/above the boat indicate 'T' or 'S' sounds
- Two dots on top is 'T' (Teh)
- Three dots on top is 'S' (Seh)
- Differentiate between the two-dot 'T' and three-dot 'S' inside/above the boat
- The 'C' shape with a large tail is the base for four different Farsi sounds
- Dot placement and count are the only ways to distinguish these four letters
- The 'belly' refers to the curved space inside the letter's tail
- A single dot inside the curve represents the 'J' sound
- Identify the four distinct sounds belonging to the 'belly' letter family
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Farsi Alphabet: A Visual Map the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If the base shape is the same for four letters, how do you distinguish between them?
Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.
Where Farsi Alphabet: A Visual Map takes you
Master the Persian script by treating letters as families of shapes rather than abstract symbols. Learn to spot the visual 'anchors' that make reading Farsi feel like solving a simple puzzle.
- 1
The Shape Families
- The Boat Letters
- The Belly Letters
- 2
Connecting the Dots
- The Seven Rebels
- The Art of Joining
2 sections · 4 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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Farsi Alphabet: A Visual Map is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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