ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 33 of 47 01 March 2014 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
How is it March already?! I didn't do very much Persian study in February, unfortunately. I finished Chai and Conversation pretty early on in the month, and then was so busy with classes that I didn't have time to do much of anything else of substance. I guess I'll need to reevaluate my goals for March given how much I've slacked off this month. :/
That said, my Egyptian neighbor has recently begun taking a Persian calligraphy class and has become interested in learning some Persian, so she's asked me to help her learn the differences between the Arabic and Persian alphabets and maybe even to learn some Persian! She has also invited me to attend the calligraphy class, which is taught by a Persian language scholar from Iran! Both should be fun opportunities. :)
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druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian
| Message 34 of 47 02 March 2014 at 12:09am | IP Logged |
Calligraphy class sounds very interesting! I imagine that kind of thing would do my handwriting a whole lot of good.
Considering how much other language study you've done, I don't think it can quite be called slacking off ;) Maybe you might like to use more native materials? I find that reading a children's story once in a while makes studying a lot more interesting and also more recreational. While I'm reading half the time is probably spent on looking things up, but you'd probably get a lot out of native materials even without a dictionary.
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druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian
| Message 35 of 47 05 March 2014 at 12:00am | IP Logged |
What do everyone's goals for March look like?
I have my exams at the end of the month, so I'm not aiming for much. I want to continue Assimil up to lesson 28 (only 4 lessons left) and do at least semi-regular Anki reviews. Right now I have about 130 new cards lined up for review, plus 50 new cards from the four Assimil lessons I plan to do... That means if I review my cards on 18 days in March I'm content.
As soon as my exams are done and I've rested my head a bit I want to dive into my coursebook "Sprachkurs Persisch", which is a lot more intense than Assimil and Chai and Conversation are at the moment. The lessons introduce a lot of new vocabulary and there are sentence-drill exercises, as well as translation exercises. I'd like to start that phase with a clean slate, so to speak, so I want to get the lined up cards out of the way before.
Edited by druckfehler on 05 March 2014 at 12:01am
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4047 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 36 of 47 31 March 2014 at 2:20pm | IP Logged |
Hi everyone, tomorrow is April!
I started to work with Assimil, I plan to do 10-15 lesson this month.
In March, well, I don't have any idea about what I did. Not much, honestly.
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druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4868 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian
| Message 37 of 47 01 April 2014 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
Time is running...
I didn't quite do as many reviews as I wanted to in March, but I'm satisfied that I did't forget anything and actually used the things I learned with my boyfriend and other Persian speakers.
Now that my exams are all done I want to start using Sprachkurs Persisch. I'm not yet setting any quantitative goals - that may or may not happen.
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luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5333 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical)
| Message 38 of 47 23 June 2014 at 4:47am | IP Logged |
Salam bachehâ!
here are my favorite links:
http://www.farsi1hd.com/ #seriale farsi
http://www.farsitube.com/ #seriale farsi
http://www.injatv.com/ #live television
http://icnl.nlai.ir/bookreader.html #stories, some with audio
http://audiolib.ir/ #audiobooks
http://koodakan.org/story/library/kids.htm #stories
http://forums.animworld.net/ #Comic books, needs registration, goto مانگاریدر when your done. Comics have become an absolute essential on my workflow, for it is by far the best source of reading material in colloquial style.
http://forums.animworld.net/forum432.html #in this thread they list all series available to download, there is significantly more content that what is available on the reader.
Edited by luhmann on 21 July 2014 at 4:24pm
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luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5333 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical)
| Message 39 of 47 04 September 2014 at 1:11pm | IP Logged |
Got a new source for reading material in colloquial style. Google for داستان قسمت plus a few random colloquial words such as دیکه,اونا منو اومدین plus perhaps some content word for variety. There a a great number of bloggers doing amateur writing in colloquial style. I order to quickly check if a text is written in colloquial style, I search for " ro " (with the spaces) and click on "highlight all". A text in colloquial style has many " ro " and no " را ". For the advanced, try including more slangy contractions like مثه مگنه میگمآ.
example
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hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5349 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian
| Message 40 of 47 10 September 2014 at 10:15pm | IP Logged |
Hi Persian team members
I don't study Persian yet but am seriously considering doing so from January. I was wondering what resources you recommend? I'd especially like to know which course you've enjoyed the most - Teach Yourself, Colloquial etc. as I want to order one.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me
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