🇮🇷 Best Persian YouTube channels for intermediate learners

Bahareh is an English-Farsi translator and educator with a doctorate in translation studies who started making videos because so little existed for conversational Farsi, and it shows in how carefully she separates bookish forms from what people say. Uploads were still frequent in August 2026 and everything on the channel is free. The videos explain in English, which makes them approachable early but means this is a channel about Persian rather than immersion in it — pair it with an all-Persian input source.

Parisa teaches by comprehensible input: she speaks only Persian, keeping the language simple and supporting it with drawings, objects and gesture so you work out meaning from context rather than translation. That makes it one of the very few genuinely all-Persian input channels for beginners, and it is free. The catalogue is small — the channel only started in 2025 and uploads paused in early 2026 — so it is a supplement to a bigger course rather than a source you can live inside for months.

A native teacher working through grammar, vocabulary, listening and conversation, with a deliberate emphasis on spoken Persian because, as he puts it, formal written Farsi differs considerably from what people actually say. There are also videos built on films, songs, poetry and idioms for later stages. Running since 2019 and still uploading weekly in 2026, all free. Playlists are the only structure on offer, so you need to impose your own order — good as your main free video teacher, not as a graded syllabus.

A franchise of local producers filming unscripted street interviews, each episode subtitled in the target language and English, which is the closest free thing to hearing how people genuinely speak. All YouTube episodes are free; membership adds transcripts, vocabulary lists and exercises. Real-speed unscripted speech is hard early on — start with the slower 'Super Easy' episodes if you are below B1.