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Cultural Life

Explore Persian words for festivals, family, music and food. Every word comes with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.

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Cultural Life 🎉

Cultural life is about **festivals, family, food, music and traditions**. In this module you will learn the key Persian words for them. Persian is written **right to left** in its own script. Every word below is shown with its **script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning.

Key words (1) 🗂️

Learn these four cultural words:

Match each word to its meaning

  • جشن (jashn)
  • خانواده (khanevadeh)
  • موسیقی (musiqi)
  • غذا (ghaza)
  • festival
  • family
  • music
  • food

What does it mean?

What does the Persian word موسیقی (musiqi) mean?

  • music
  • food
  • family
  • festival

Key words (2) 🎵

Now four more words about celebrations:

Match each word to its meaning

  • رقص (raghs)
  • سنت (sonnat)
  • آواز (avaz)
  • مهمانی (mehmani)
  • dance
  • tradition
  • song
  • party

Cultural life

Select the TWO things that are part of cultural life.

  • Celebrating festivals with family
  • Enjoying music and dance
  • Ignoring all traditions
  • Never celebrating anything

Choose the Persian word

In Persian, the word for 'family' is _____, and the word for 'music' is _____.

خانواده (khanevadeh) موسیقی (musiqi) جشن (jashn) غذا (ghaza) رقص (raghs) آواز (avaz)

A script of its own 💡

Persian (Farsi) is written **right to left** in a script derived from Arabic, but Persian is a **different language**, not a form of Arabic. The **transliteration** in brackets is a pronunciation guide. The biggest celebration is **نوروز (Nowruz)**, the Persian New Year, marked with family, food and music.

A special day

What does the Persian word جشن (jashn) mean?

  • festival
  • homework
  • school
  • the weather

Cultural life in action

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One more

The Persian word for 'food' is _____, and the word for 'festival' is _____.

غذا (ghaza) جشن (jashn) خانواده (khanevadeh) رقص (raghs) موسیقی (musiqi) آواز (avaz)

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