Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners
Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed to provide a step-by-step course to Persian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical, and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Persian in a broad range of situations.

Each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points across different key topics for communicating in Persian. This fourth edition offers thoroughly updated and expanded cultural notes, refined language points offering greater clarity and understanding of the most difficult points, a clearer introduction to the Persian script, and new audio material. Balanced, comprehensive, and rewarding, Colloquial Persian is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Persian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

• Jargon-free, succinct, and clearly structured explanations of grammar.

• An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises.

• Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations.

• Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Iran.

• An overview of the sounds of Persian.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. The audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

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Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners
Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed to provide a step-by-step course to Persian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical, and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Persian in a broad range of situations.

Each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points across different key topics for communicating in Persian. This fourth edition offers thoroughly updated and expanded cultural notes, refined language points offering greater clarity and understanding of the most difficult points, a clearer introduction to the Persian script, and new audio material. Balanced, comprehensive, and rewarding, Colloquial Persian is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Persian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

• Jargon-free, succinct, and clearly structured explanations of grammar.

• An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises.

• Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations.

• Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Iran.

• An overview of the sounds of Persian.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. The audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

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Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners

Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners

by Abdi Rafiee
Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners

Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners

by Abdi Rafiee

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Overview

Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed to provide a step-by-step course to Persian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical, and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Persian in a broad range of situations.

Each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points across different key topics for communicating in Persian. This fourth edition offers thoroughly updated and expanded cultural notes, refined language points offering greater clarity and understanding of the most difficult points, a clearer introduction to the Persian script, and new audio material. Balanced, comprehensive, and rewarding, Colloquial Persian is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Persian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

• Jargon-free, succinct, and clearly structured explanations of grammar.

• An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises.

• Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations.

• Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Iran.

• An overview of the sounds of Persian.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. The audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032553405
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/17/2023
Series: Colloquial Series
Edition description: 4th ed.
Pages: 576
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Abdi Rafiee is a Farsi (Persian) teacher at the University of Westminster, London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Reading and writing in Persian
/Guidelines for Persian writing


/سلام 1 salām 
/Greetings
/Dialogue 1 Greeting and leave-taking
/Dialogue 2 Introducing yourself


/احوال پرسی 2 ahvāl-porsi 
/Enquiring about health
/Dialogue 1 How’re you?
/Dialogue 2 Pleased to meet you!


/کجايی هستيد؟ 3 kojāyi hastid? 
/Where are you from?
/Dialogue 1 Party game: Who am I?
/Dialogue 2 Introducing B to C


/آخر هفته چه کار کرديد؟ 4 āxar-e hafte ce-kār kardid? 
What did you do at the weekend?
/Dialogue 1 Wish you were there!
/Dialogue 2 Nothing to write home about!


/منزلتون کجاست؟ 5 manzeletun kojāst? 
/Where’s your home?
/Dialogue 1 Giving your details
/Dialogue 2 Asking about family

ورود به تهران 6 vorud be tehrān 
/Arriving in Tehran
/Dialogue 1 How long will you stay in Iran?
/Dialogue 2 Going through customs


/در ايران 7 dar irān 
In Iran
/Dialogue 1 Getting a taxi
/Dialogue 2 Checking into a hotel


/گفت وگوی خيابانی 8 goft-o-gu-ye xiābāni
/Street talk
/Dialogue 1 Asking directions
/Dialogue 2 Is there a metro station around here?


/گرسنه ايد؟ 9 gorosneid?
/Are you hungry?
/Dialogue 1 At the dinner table
/Dialogue 2 Is this seat taken?


/موقعيّت های اضطراری 10 mouqe‘iyathā-ye ezterāri
/Emergency situations
/Dialogue 1 At the police station
/Dialogue 2 Describing appearance


/منزل 11 manzel
/Home
/Dialogue 1 Answering the phone
/Dialogue 2 I’m looking for a flat


/گردش 12 gardeŝ
Going out
/Dialogue 1 If the weather gets better . . .
/Dialogue 2 What are your hobbies?

خريد 13 xarid 
/Shopping
/Dialogue 1 Haggling
/Dialogue 2 In a corner shop


/خدمات 14 xadamāt
Services
/Dialogue 1 At the post office
/Dialogue 2 Exchanging currencies


/سلامت و بهداشت 15 salāmat o behdāŝt
Health and hygiene
/Dialogue 1 Hello, Doctor
/Dialogue 2 At the pharmacy


/روابط با ديگران 16 ravābet bā digarān
Relations with other people
/Dialogue 1 Giving and receiving gifts
/Dialogue 2 Arranging to meet


/کار و زبان های خارجی 17 kār va zabānhā-ye xāreji
/Business and foreign languages
/Dialogue 1 A business appointment
/Dialogue 2 A job interview


Key to the exercises
Reference grammar
Persian–English glossary
/English–Persian glossary

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