Full Description
Colloquial Persian is easy to use and completely up-to-date! Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Persian. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes this new edition of Colloquial Persian your best choice in personal language learning? * Interactive - lots of exercises for regular practice. * Clear - concise grammar notes. * Practical - useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide. * Complete - including answer key and reference section. Whether you're a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism; you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday - if you'd like to get up and running with Persian, this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations. Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CDs or in MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquial Persian paperback and CDs complete course.Recorded by native speakers, the audio material complements the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
Contents
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Reading and writing in Persian. Communicating in Persian. 1. salam Greetings. 2. ahvalporsi Enquiring about Health 3. kojayi hastid? Where are you from? 4. axar-e hafte ce-kar kardid? What did you do at the weekend? 5. manzeltun kojast? Where's your home? 6. vorud be tehran Arriving in Tehran 7. dar iran In Iran 8. goftogu-ye xiabani Street talk 9. gorosneid? Are you hungry? 10. mouqe'iyatha-ye ezterari Emergency situations 11. manzel Home 12. gardees Going out 13. xarid Shopping 14. xadamat Services 15. salamat o behdast Health and hygiene 16. ravabet ba digaran Relations with other people 17. kar va zabanha-ye xareji Business and foreign languages. Key to the exercises. Reference grammar. Persian-English glossary. English-Persian glossary. Index
