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Persian or Farsi? That is the question By Moná Kíání   Would my two-year old son speak Persian or Farsi?   Frankly that was not THE question when I decided to develop a bilingual series of books and e-books for children of mixed Persian parentage.   I was just desperately looking for resources to help my toddler son learn Farsi. The sheer irony was, as a child, I hated learning Farsi. I was always looking for ways to skip the weekly classes.   Here I was, your typical second generation Iranian of the Persian diaspora. Then again, maybe not quite....

How did we choose our transliteration method? If you have been reading Persian blogs/pages you may notice that there is a wide variety of methods for transliterating Persian into English. Here at Englisi Farsi we have adopted the standards developed by the 10th International Congress of Orientalist's which took place in Geneva in September 1894.   In order to standardise the letters/sounds/vowels we have utilised this method to stay true to the eloquent as well as gutteral sounds that are found in the Persian language.  Most of the letters are self explanatory and consistent in most transliteration guides. However, the vowels are...