anavidi Newbie United States Joined 6705 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Persian
| Message 1 of 22 28 July 2006 at 6:09pm | IP Logged |
Does anyone know of any material for learning Persian/Farsi created by FSI?
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braveb Senior Member United States languageprograms.blo Joined 7196 days ago 264 posts - 263 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 2 of 22 28 July 2006 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
The official site for FSI programs is ntis.gov
You will find that the FSI does not offer Persian. I think you are out of luck for Persian english based programs.
I find the languages offered by FSI sort of strange. Why offer uncommon languages such as Amharic, Twi, Youruba, Igbo, and ignore Persian?
Very bizarre.
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anavidi Newbie United States Joined 6705 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Persian
| Message 3 of 22 28 July 2006 at 11:36pm | IP Logged |
I completely agree that the selection on that website is quite unusual. Though I have managed to find some FSI material for Persian.
Spoken Persian, published by Spoken Language Services Inc.
I was wondering if anyone knew of anything else.
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AML Senior Member United States Joined 6824 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish
| Message 4 of 22 29 July 2006 at 3:58am | IP Logged |
Pimsleur has a little bit of material that may be useful.
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 5 of 22 29 July 2006 at 5:57am | IP Logged |
There's Teach Youself Persian which is in English. Otherwise, if you don't mind French, there's Le Persan Sans Peine.
I can't think of anything else.
Edited by patuco on 29 July 2006 at 5:57am
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 6 of 22 29 July 2006 at 9:16am | IP Logged |
Try this link
The University of Michigan sells 18CDs for $170 that accompany their Elementary and Intermediate textbooks of Farsi.
The textbooks are available from "International Book Store" or something like that.
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Polyglot2005 Senior Member United States Joined 7187 days ago 184 posts - 185 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 7 of 22 29 July 2006 at 1:49pm | IP Logged |
If I remember correctly, there is a program called Modern Spoken Persian, and it is supposed to be in a format similar to FSI.
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anavidi Newbie United States Joined 6705 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Persian
| Message 8 of 22 30 July 2006 at 7:21pm | IP Logged |
Polyglot2005 wrote:
If I remember correctly, there is a program called Modern Spoken Persian, and it is supposed to be in a format similar to FSI. |
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I had come across that program, I wonder if anyone has any experience with it?
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