So Farsi, So Good

[hulegu]

Ach! or should that be !به! به I have my Farsi exam tomorrow - and I'm actually looking forward to it. Not because I have been permanently ensconsed in the library for the past 2-3 weeks, learning all there is to know about the ezafe, direct object marker or irregular verbs - I haven't, and I'm not that nerdy, despite the appearance presented by

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[ajnovak]

ExxonMobil's Central Asia desk might be hiring. The job opportunities! This is why I switched from learning French to learning Brazilian Portuguese halfway through college. I'd much rather samba, beaches, and caipirinhas to Montreal in January. Plus French is washed up. It's a has been. So you're cutting edge, totally on top of the game. I wish I had the good fortune a few years ago to take a cutting edge language (thank God, at least, I avoided Latin in high school).

[hulegu]

I found Uzbek relatively easy - but that was mostly because we had an excellent teacher, and it was the most intensive language course I've ever done - like force-feeding geese to procure foie gras. I've had a bit of a languagesphobia for many years, but SWSEEL seems to have cured me. Subsequently, Farsi has been quite enjoyable, and it shares a number of grammatical features with Uzbek, as well as there being a number of commmon words (e.g. inter alia Uzbek's days of the week are borrowed from Farsi.) i would reccomend it.

[sarmoung]

Good luck, hope it works out with the specs/exam!

[ex_lovzfoot]

if you opt to learn russian im always around as an experienced native speaker to explain the subtelties)))