Colloquial Persian

by Abdi Raifee and Abdi Rafiee

Book Overview

Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Persian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415157498
• ISBN13: 9780415157490
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Superbly written!!!

Colloquial Persian is an incredible introduction to spoken and written Farsi. The grammar points are clear and concise with no confusing jargon, and the content layout is very well structured. New vocabulary and grammar points are introduced after each dialogue, but this never makes things confusing (as a previous reviewer suggested), and in fact most modern language books are structured in this way. A finely tuned masterpiece!

pretty good introduction

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 spokenmy other point of contention is thatthey 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

Really good book to learn spoken persian

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.

A good introductory Persian lesson book.

This is better than Thackston's "An Introduction to Persian", which can be forbidding for beginners. It differs from Thackston in that it's emphasis is on spoken Persian rather than written Persian. However, having said that, neither book really does much to teach you how to read or write. They should be viewed more as refreshers and practice guides. Also, Rafiee's book comes with a key to the exercises and a cassette to aid in pronunciation, which Thackston's book lacks.