Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners

by Abdi Rafiee

Written by an experienced teacher of the language, this new edition of Colloquial Persian offers an up-to-date, step-by-step approach to the written and spoken language of Iran, also known as Farsi. Ideal for beginners, the course also highlights important cultural aspects of communicating in Persian.
Learning to read and write Persian script is made as easy as possible. For those who wish to learn to speak Persian without studying the script, Romanization is included throughout.
Other features include:
* exercises with full answer key
* concise grammar explanations
* lively dialogues with essential everyday vocabulary
* Persian-English and English-Persian glossaries.
This pack contains two 60-minute cassettes and CDs which will help perfect your pronunciation and comprehension skills.

Genres: Language, Iran, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Barbara Tsipouras · Rating 5 out of 5]

The great advantage of this book is that it really teaches the spoken language. Of course I can't sa tht I'm now fluent in Persian, but this book really helped me to understand the grammar and the used vocabulary consists of the most used words.