Advancing education · کلاس فارسی کودکان
Weekly online Persian language and heritage classes for ages 4 to 14. A new term begins at the start of every season, and admission is limited — small groups, so every child gets heard. Taught through songs, stories, the festivals and a lot of patience. Sliding-scale fees; no child is turned away for money.
Why it matters
Most children of Iranian families in Canada understand Persian and answer in English. By the second generation, the phone calls to Iran go through a parent. By the third, the poems on the wall are decoration.
Our classes exist to interrupt that. Children learn to read and write the alphabet, to speak with confidence, and to know what Nowruz, Yalda and Hafez mean — not as homework, but as theirs. Classes are live and online, taught by native speakers with teaching backgrounds, in deliberately small groups, with a curriculum built for children who live in English and French all week.
Children are placed by a short, friendly video chat, not by age alone. Each level takes a limited number of children per term, so the teacher can hear every voice.
Level 1 · Ages 4–7
Listening, speaking, songs, and the first letters of the alphabet. Children leave able to greet, count, name colours and animals, and sing the Nowruz songs their grandparents know.
Level 2 · Ages 7–11
Full alphabet, connected script, and the first real reading — short stories, simple poems, letters to family. Speaking grows from answers into conversations.
Level 3 · Ages 11–14
Fluent reading, composition, and the culture behind the language: Hafez, Rumi, Forough Farrokhzad, Persian history and film. Students present a project at the year-end gathering.
Adults are welcome too: a beginners' class for partners and parents who married into the language, and a Persian conversation circle for heritage speakers. Ask on the form below.
This is the most common child we teach. Speaking comes back once it's the language of songs, games and friends rather than of being corrected at dinner. Give it a term.
Yes. Level 1 assumes nothing. Children from mixed families, adoptive families and Afghan or Tajik families all join; the alphabet and the songs are the same.
The Persian alphabet and standard Iranian Persian, the way it's read and written in books. Teachers welcome Dari and Tajik pronunciation in the room, and older students learn about the differences.
Some school boards grant international or heritage language credits for approved programs. Level 3 covers the material typically required; ask us about your board and we'll tell you what we know.
Please. We need native speakers, teachers, and teenagers who finished the program. See teach with us.