Returning to Farsi [7 weeks]

Join our 7-week course to learn beginner's conversational Farsi. Reconnect with Farsi through play, storytelling, and cultural memory - not grammar drills. No fluency required! Students will leave with expanded active Farsi vocabulary, a deeper connection to Persian cultural expression, and a supportive community of fellow speakers and learners. Facilitated by Sadaf Maleki (she/they), a queer Iranian language teacher who studied Persian language and literature at Tehran University, and taught Farsi at the University of Texas at Austin. Now a PhD student at UCLA researching the archival needs of queer Iranian communities, she designed بازگشت به زبان out of her own experience — the longing, the stumbling, and the stubborn joy of finding your way back to a language that has always been yours. This program is queer-affirming, antiracist, and inclusive of the full diversity of Iranian heritage. We encourage partners and allies to join. The Info: