Comments on: Most common Persian words

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:04:47 +0000

Your Farsi word frequency list would be much improved as a learning tool if one could click on each word and gets it English meaning, and/or if there was also a list with the English meaning next to the Farsi word.

By: Shepard25Melba

Shepard25Melba — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:25:06 +0000

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By: Landon

Landon — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:14:45 +0000

thanks alot! i am american. i have travelled the world as a young man. i speak 3 languages fluetly right now. i am working on chinese and persian. thanks alot. it is very hard to find resources online to learn persian. thanks again.

By: Honso

Honso — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:07:07 +0000

Hi,
I’m using this word list in my Android app (MultiLing Keyboard). It will be available in next release.

I’m also interested in the Java code for the parser.
Thanks!

By: JB

JB — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:25:31 +0000

Hello Javid. Thanks for publishing this list. I’ve made a set of flashcards with definitions from the Aryanpour Persian-English dictionary and I’ve reviewing them using a flashcard software. It has become an important part of my Persian studies.

By: Sarah Mottaghinejad

Sarah Mottaghinejad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:42:48 +0000

I have been trying to do the exact same thing! I found the Hamshari corpus, but they must have made some improvements to it because when I tried to use it gave me error after error. Thank you for this list! I would love to do a lexicon for these words with pronunciation and typical collocations and phrases. Maybe you could help me figure out how to use the corpus and we could work together?

By: Martin Roberts

Martin Roberts — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:49:09 +0000

Dear Javid,

I was most impressed when I was searching for a list indicating the word frequency of Persian words, that I found your list.

I am starting a course to teach both children and adults and will be using your list as a basis for teaching and learning Persian.
(I have successfully used similar lists to teach English.)

One of the things that I have done with your list is use it as the basis for a automated vocabulary assessment.

This program intelligently selects typically 20 words, and based on which of these words the student knows, the program estimates the size of the user’s vocabularly.
(Where there is some hefty maths involved to determine how to most efficiently select which words are asked to the student)

This program can then be run periodically to determine how well the student is learning…

For beginners, a list of 5000 words is more than sufficient for this purpose, however, for more skilled (but not fluent) students the list needs to be significantly larger, to cater for the rarer words.

My technical skills are more in the line of maths, and teaching — with only a modest set of computer programming skills, but it seems that you are far more proficient at databasing than me. Is it possible to re-run your program (if you still have it) to produce, say the top 20,000 words?

Kindest regards,

Martin Roberts
Tasmania, Australia.

By: Ansa

Ansa — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:02:50 +0000

Hey! Thanks for the list of common Parsi words. Exactly what I was looking for to help me learn!

By: Shahram

Shahram — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:13:00 +0000

I came across your blog from on of your article in DevX.com.
I work as Java/J2EE developer in Canada.
It was exciting to find an Iranian with java expertise and many articles and book.
I just want to say hello wish you best of luck.