Learn Farsi With Songs
What a Persian song means, line by line, for people who did not come to learn Persian.
- Owner
- My own product, under my house brand Golbarg
- Role
- Design, build, product direction
- Years
- 2024 to now
- Built with
- Framer, Notion, Claude and Claude Code, Google Analytics
Soghati, on a phone
The song and its three jump links, the lyrics in Persian with the vowel marks on, and one word opened: soghâti, the gift a journey proves.
The work
I built the site alone in 2024, to teach Persian through songs. The data later showed who actually came: mostly English speakers, sent by Google straight to a song page, asking one question. What does this song mean? Most were not learners.
So I rebuilt the site around that question. The promise changed: the homepage now answers “Will songs make me fluent?” with “No.” English comes first on every page. New songs are picked by how often people ask Google what they mean. A song with 29 million views was skipped, because outsiders never ask what it means.
Then I made the answer repeatable, so one person can keep giving it. Every song comes from one source, one page shape and one written standard. Colour, spelling and layout are decided once, so a new page is filled in, not designed. AI drafts it in under an hour, a native speaker checks every line, and I decide. When a correction repeats, it becomes a rule, and the same mistake does not come back.
With no ads, Google clicks from July to September grew 9.4 times in a year. The two newest songs reached Google’s first page within their first month, and September 2026 alone brought more visits than the whole first year.
A song page
A song page loading, then the lyrics, the key words, the cultural notes and the people behind the song.
Readers
In their words“Your beautiful page on Kourosh Yaghmaei’s ‘Gole Yakh’ was exactly what I was looking for. THANK YOU.”
“What an amazing concept. Just started learning Persian and this is genius. I would be happy to pay subscription if that meant access to more pages with songs.”
“Your website has been a central inspiration for my Major Research Project.”



One line, three ways
Every line in English, in Latin letters with one spelling everywhere, and in Persian with vowel marks for beginners.
Six songs
One colour family. Every card keeps the same strength of colour, and only the hue comes from its cover, so a new song matches the rest without design work.