luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5338 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical)
| Message 41 of 47 12 September 2014 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
Le Persan Sans Peine, Teach Yourself (by farzad), Living Language and Routlege Farsi Shirin Ast come with my highest recomendations. The Grammar book by John Mace is absolutely essential.
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hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5354 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian
| Message 42 of 47 12 September 2014 at 6:36pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the tips Luhmann, sorry to be a pain but do you have any specific comments about those books and their qualities (because I can only afford one, plus the grammar book)? I don't speak French so the Le Persan sans peine wouldn't work for me.
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akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5413 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh
| Message 43 of 47 17 October 2014 at 9:24am | IP Logged |
As I can not create a new topic at the moment I thought it worth mentioning here that Iranian texbooks for primary and secondary schools can be downloaded here (use the links on the right to access the books by level). As far I can see this seems to be quite extensive with textbooks on language, literature, history, religion, calligraphy, mechanics...
This coupled with the Children's Library amazing collection should provide plenty of carefully graded easy (to not so easy) reading.
Edited by akkadboy on 17 October 2014 at 9:25am
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Talib Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6666 days ago 171 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (classical) Studies: Arabic (Egyptian)
| Message 44 of 47 15 January 2015 at 2:22am | IP Logged |
Is anyone still interested in the Persian team?
I am starting to learn Persian with the Living Languages course. I hope to learn basic aspects of the language with that course, especially the pronunciation.
Edited by Talib on 15 January 2015 at 2:26am
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druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4873 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian
| Message 45 of 47 15 January 2015 at 8:46pm | IP Logged |
Talib, I'm still learning Persian. I'm continuing the log posted in the first entry of this thread. How about joining this year's TAC team Rare? I'd be very glad if there was someone else learning Persian on the team!
What got you interested in the language?
Edited by druckfehler on 15 January 2015 at 8:47pm
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4052 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 46 of 47 15 January 2015 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
I miss Persian :)
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Talib Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6666 days ago 171 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (classical) Studies: Arabic (Egyptian)
| Message 47 of 47 15 January 2015 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
druckfehler wrote:
Talib, I'm still learning Persian. I'm continuing the log posted in the first entry of this thread. How about joining this year's TAC team Rare? I'd be very glad if there was someone else learning Persian on the team!
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I am happy that I am not the only one learning Persian. I'm not ready to become a full fledged member of the team Rare yet, but I can participate in the posts about learning Persian from time to time.
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I am mostly interested in the spiritual poetry. In a way, I would rather not read it in translation because I would like to experience it for the first time in the original language.
For now, I am still working on the sounds and basic reading. The similarity to the Arabic script definitely makes things easier for me, but there are enough modifications in it to require some additional practice.
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