Falahatpisheh told IRNA English on the sidelines of the 34th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) on Monday that an educational series has been developed by Sahar TV based on MINA books, a series published by Saadi Foundation to teach Farsi to foreign students.
Regarding the activities of the organization, he said that Saadi Foundation, an organization set up in 2013, focuses on six missions:
1. Holding online and in-person Persian language classes,
2. Training Farsi teachers (offline classes),
3. Compilation of books for Persian language learners (beginner-advanced),
4. Standardizing and holding Persian language proficiency tests (AMFA),
5. Holding knowledge enhancement courses for those who are already acquainted with Farsi, including short-term and long-term courses,
6. Carrying out research work on Persian language teaching techniques and corpus.
Falahatpisheh said that Saadi Foundation designs and holds Persian language olympiads for foreigners and also grants scholarships to teachers of Persian language from other countries.
Persian is being taught in some 50 language centers out of Iran, he said, adding that over 10,000 foreigners took the courses offered by the Foundation last year.
Falahatpisheh also said that Farsi has been included as the second and third core or elective language in official education curriculum in some neighboring countries, including in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Georgia.
The largest group of foreign learners of Farsi language are from more than 100,000 foreign students currently studying at Iranian universities, he pointed out.
Regarding the online courses offered by the Saadi Foundation, he said that the Mina Online School is currently viewed as the number one e-learning platform for teaching Persian language, adding that the school offers courses for a variety of students ranging from false beginners to advanced learners.
He went on to say that Saadi Foundation has compiled numerous books to help foreigners to master Persian language skills, vocabulary, and grammar, adding that full multimedia versions of the books taught in the Foundation are available for download on its website.
Falahatpisheh said that to help zero beginners to start the language, the Foundation has translated a book titled "Gam Avval" (First Step) into 13 languages, adding that the book covers the alphabet and the 700 basic words of Farsi in 15 lessons.
The TIBF is being held from May 20-30, 2023 at Imam Khomeini Mosalla in northern Tehran under the slogan “Future Is Worth Reading”.
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