Teachers and institutions
Persian departments, language schools and cultural institutes can publish lessons or articles with us as verified publishers. It is a content partnership, not a learning-management system.
See the partner pageAbout Daenaly
Learn Persian the way people fall in love with it.
Many people come to Persian for a reason with a face: a partner's family, or a poem they cannot stop reading. Daenaly teaches the language through poetry, culture and conversation, so the words you learn open the doors you came for.
Our mission, in one line
Don't just learn Persian. Fall in love with Iran.
Why Daenaly exists
Learning a language from word lists is lonely, and a language cut off from its culture is hard to love. Persian has both to give: more than a thousand years of poetry, and an everyday politeness, taarof, that no phrasebook explains.
We want a beginner to be able to say one real sentence to a partner's family tonight, and to read a real verse of Hafez with its translation and its source. Culture is explained where it appears, because nobody should need an Iranian background to follow.
What makes Daenaly different
Four choices we made on purpose.
Text you can trace
Poems are matched against Ganjoor, a public library of classical Persian poetry, and link to the source page. A verse we cannot match is not published as verified.
Family-first phrases
Everyday sentences for the table, the phone call and the doorway, each with audio, transliteration, the meaning and when to say it.
A guide that knows your lessons
Simorgh, our AI guide, knows which lessons you have done and can explain a phrase or a verse. It is an AI and can make mistakes, and it never replaces the source text.
English and Arabic, equal
The interface, the lesson explanations and the legal pages exist in English and in Arabic from the start, not as an afterthought.
How we work
Three rules we keep.
A poem is checked against its source before it is called verified
Before a poem carries the "verified" label, its Persian is matched to the source text. The text stays exactly as the source has it: we do not fix it, modernise it or improve it.
AI never writes Persian literature
We use AI to help draft explanations and suggest translations. It does not write, complete or rewrite poems, and every poem is shown verbatim from its source.
A person reviews what you read
New content goes through human review before it is published. Everyday phrases are our own writing, not literature, and we welcome corrections from native speakers.
What is real today
Daenaly is in public beta. Here is plainly what that means.
Available now
- Start free with no card: Levels 0 and 1 and a fifth of the Explore library, family phrases included.
- 7 days of the full plan, free. No card.
- It works in your browser on a phone or a computer, and you can add it to your home screen.
- The interface is in English and in Arabic.
Not yet
- Paid plans are not on sale and payments are not open. Founding members are told first.
- Daenaly is not in the app stores yet.
- The poetry library is small and growing. We would rather have fewer poems than invented ones.
We update this page when something changes.
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Found a mistake, or have an idea? Write to us. Corrections from native speakers are especially welcome.
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