linkman226 Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5330 days ago 26 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Kannada*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, French
| Message 25 of 30 11 October 2013 at 11:24pm | IP Logged |
Can anyone speak with regard to how up to date the FSI course is with modern conversational Persian? Is it a good
course? I know the Spanish, French, and Portuguese courses are all very strong, is this at about the same level? Also,
how does it compare to the UTexas textbook posted above, and how does that textbook rate?
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drygramul Tetraglot Senior Member Italy Joined 4469 days ago 165 posts - 269 votes Speaks: Persian, Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: French, Polish
| Message 26 of 30 17 October 2013 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
linkman226 wrote:
Can anyone speak with regard to how up to date the FSI course is with modern conversational Persian? Is it a good course? |
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I checked it out of curiosity, and it's extremely colloquial. In addition, the pronunciation they teach sounds like the one of Tehran. So from a conversational point of view, if you can manage FSI courses, it's an excellent book.
That's the kind of persian my parents taught me when I was a child, and that means that although you'll manage to do sufficiently well in common conversations, you won't be able - as myself - to understand movies, radios, newspapers and official dialogues and announcements (political ones, for instance). That's because spoken Farsi is quite different from the formal one, as you may already know.
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linkman226 Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5330 days ago 26 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Kannada*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, French
| Message 27 of 30 18 October 2013 at 12:42am | IP Logged |
Ah, interesting. Well I'm totally fine with using FSI as a supplement to . I can rely on other sources (i.e. Assimil, the
UTexas textbook, and whatever else I can find) for the formal language.
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adm.tres Diglot Newbie Mexico Joined 4107 days ago 4 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Mandarin
| Message 28 of 30 24 October 2013 at 9:53pm | IP Logged |
I believe this is quite new, take a look at this:
http://persianlanguageonline.com/
What do you think?
The material is quite similar to the "Teach yourself modern persian", isn't it?
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7145 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 29 of 30 31 October 2013 at 12:57pm | IP Logged |
Another free resource for Persian is "Persian for Beginners", by Iraj Bashiri, which includes a textbook, a tape manual, and audio. The set can be found for download on his website:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Lessons/PfBindex.html
And for learners who prefer to use Russian rather than English as a basis for their Persian studies, here's the page for the Russian version of the books:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/LessonsRussian/RussPfor Bindex.html
(The audio only seems to be on the English page listed first above, though.)
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adm.tres Diglot Newbie Mexico Joined 4107 days ago 4 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Mandarin
| Message 30 of 30 01 November 2013 at 6:34am | IP Logged |
Another one, from the University of Texas:
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/persian_teaching_resources/
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