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Can Arabic speakers read Persian?

Langfocus Aug 6, 2026 15:00
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In this video, I present some Persian sentences to native speakers of Arabic to see how well they can understand them. As usual with this type of video, their reactions and the ensuing discussion turns out to be quite fascinating! Become a Langfocus channel member for exclusive members only videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNhX3WQEkraW3VHPyup8jkQ/join Or join my Patreon: https://patreon.com/langfocus And thanks to all of the Langfocus Patreon supporters: Aleksei Bogatov Bennett Seacrist Brian King Bruce C Fiona de Visser Georgina Toland Jacob Madsen Jean P. Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kirk Kirkpatrick Marc Randazza Michael Cuomo Michael J Synnott Nobbi Lampe-Strang Rosalind Resnick Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Vincent Wolfgang Egon Schroder Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Vanderpluym Al Alex Tsigdinos Alice Andrea & Vincent Wan Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Brendan McKeon Bruce Stark Carl Luca Hofmann Cyrus Shahrivar Darek David Brown David Golub Diana Fulger DIESOLpod Dina Trageser Doug El Capitan Nico G Bot grace Gregory Ferree Hdjdn Dhdjdbd HELLABBXL JAMES ORR James Wraith John Gavin John Weiss Josh Andallo Kate Jensen Larry Salas Laterunner Leo Coyne Lissette Talledo Malandro Marcel Siemens Mark Judge Mark Kemp Matthew O'Donnell MikAE Mike Frysinger Oleksandr Ivanov Phil Franks piero Piri JAKAB VON SZENGELICE Roger Smith Scarecrow Repair Sheila Perryman Stefan Reichenberger Tara Pride Trevor Helminski Warren McKenzie Yuval Filmus
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