TEHRAN -- Sylwia Surdykowska from the University of Warsaw believes learning the Persian language will help achieve a better understanding of Iran’s culture.

Surdykowska, a scholar in the Department of Iranian Studies at Warsaw University was one of the invited guests at the International Congress of World Teachers of Persian Language and Literature held at the University of Tehran on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Polish are familiar with Persian literature and know of the Persian poets Hafez, Rumi, Khayyam and Sadi, she told the Persian service of IRNA.
She added that students who are studying Iranology at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Warsaw University eagerly study the literature, civilization, history and religion of Iran for a period of five years.
I believe those who learn Persian language and literature will help bring the two nations of Iran and Poland closer to one another, she said.
Foreign scholar Thomas Hirsan from Tavrida National University of Ukraine, one of the hundred foreign scholars, said that graduate students of Persian language can easily be successful in Russia, Ukraine, Iran and its neighboring countries.
Scholar Marilyn Khalikov from Kazan State University in Tatarstan believes the promotion of Persian requires an expansion of cultural relations between Iran and Tatarstan.
Cultural relations will lead to the unity of the people, she said.
Mohammad Abul Hashem from the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh also said that more youths are becoming interested in learning Persian.
There are many books in Persian remaining from the past in Bangladesh, encouraging young people to learn Persian.
Post-revolutionary literature, comparative literature and modern methods of learning Persian were some of the main topics discussed during the 7th edition of the congress.