Let's Learn Spoken Dari
3-A Pronounciation drill (to be done only with the teacher)
1. Contrasting /t/ and /d/
tars na dArum (I'm not afraid)
dars na dArum (I don't have a lesson)
tU bugO (Say, "You")
dU bugO (Say, "Two")
tU dU bugO (You say, "Two")
tEr na shud (H/she/it didn't pass by)
dEr na shud (It wasn't late)
kArta rawAn kad (He/she sent a card)
kArda rawAn kad (He/she sent a knife)
I jAi bEtar as (This place is better)
I jAi bEdar as (This place doesn't have a door)
bUt kujA bUd? (Where was the shoe?)
2. Contrasting /I/ and /E/
U sIr as (That is garlic)
U sEr as (He/she is full, or, That is a
"seer" [a measurement])
ShIr kujA s? (Where is the milk?)
shEr kujA s? (Where is the lion?)
U sI guft (He/she said, "Thirty")
U sE guft (He/she said, "Three")
sE da sI mEsha (Three times ten is thirty)
tIr tEr shud (The arrow passed by)
3. Illustrating /rd/
kArd e khurda bOrd (He/she took
away the small knife)
kArd e zarda bOrd (He/she took away the yellow
knife)
awA sard shud (The weather turned cold)
Ard qImat shud (Flour became expensive)
sarem dard mEkuna (My head aches)
