At the beginning, NADER & TERMEH have a small arguement about her saying a word in Arabic, him saying she's wrong, her saying that the teacher told her to say that, and him insisting she's wrong. Was she?
shareyes
shareThanks. Although, that doesn't really mean he's right. You know, for saying that if the teacher says something doesn't mean it's true (or something like that).
shareI like the thread title. Yes, "Persian" is the English word for the language and "Farsi" is the Persian word for it. It's like saying "Español" instead of "Spanish", or "Français" instead of "French".
I wonder why many people are mistaken and say "Farsi".
I got this from another website:
"In English, however, this language has always been known as "Persian" ('Persane' in French and 'Persisch' in German'). But many Persians migrating to the West (particularly to the USA) after the 1979 revolution continued to use 'Farsi' to identify their language in English and the word became commonplace in English-speaking countries".