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Title: Colloquial Persian The Complete Course for Beginners (With cassette) by Abdi Rafiee, Abdi Raflee ISBN: 0-415-15751-X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: pretty good introduction
Comment: this is a decent introduction to spoken and written modern Farsi. I really did like it.
My two points of contention is that the written, atleast in the beginning and with the vocabulary does NOT include the vowel marks, i felt it would be more useful if all vocab and sentences in the first few chapters utilized vowel marks. makes life a tad bit easier.
I ended up not even focusing on the written and JUST used the book for the spoken
my other point of contention is that
they use the letter "x" for the "kh" sound, which is fairly gutterial...i felt it was alittle confusing.
This book teaches you both the polite spoken based more on the written (people will think ur really cute!) and slowly introduces alittle of the actual way its spoken (sound changes and whatnot)
but overall a really good book and introduction
Rating: 4
Summary: Really good book to learn spoken persian
Comment: Good points are: lessons are short, everyday life situations, good introduction of written persian, dialogues on the CDs are fast (and thus are close to real world situations), answers to exercises, english-persian dictionary. Also, the book is well structured.
Someone complained about the fact that people had to look up words frequently in the dictionary, that's true but you should write a list of all the words on a sheet and learn it anyway.
I first tried to learn persian with a french book but they switch to written persian at lesson 7. So it requires you to learn scripting early, which is a bad idea i think. This book lets you learn spoken persian.
Rating: 3
Summary: Needs better editing
Comment: A self-teaching book should be user-friendly and not leave the reader thumbing through the vocabularies to find undefined words. Unfortunately, this book violates that rule in the very first chapter. However, I think it is in some ways a vast improvement over most other Persian books, which are either too scholarly, too dry, or too simplistic. This book falls somewhere in the middle, and with a little careful editing it may become a four-star or five-star item.
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Title: Lonely Planet Farsi (Persian) Phrasebook by Yavar Dehghani ISBN: 0864425813 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Farsi-English/English-Farsi (Persian) Concise Dictionary by Miandjl, Anooshirvan M. Miandji ISBN: 078180860X Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: How to Speak, Read, & Write Persian: Self-Teaching Method, Accompanied by 3 Twin-Track Cassettes by Hushang Amuzgar, Farideh Amuzegar, Hooshang Amuzgar, Hooshang Amuzegar ISBN: 0936347058 Publisher: Ibex Pub Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: An Introduction to Persian by Wheeler M. Thackston ISBN: 0936347295 Publisher: Ibex Pub Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: An English-Persian Dictionary by Dariush Gilani ISBN: 0936347953 Publisher: Ibex Pub Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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