Farsi Dictionary & Phrasebook: Farsi-English / English-Farsi (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks) [Paperback]

Nicholas Awde (Author), Camilla Shahribaf (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781810736 | ISBN-13: 978-0781810739 | Publication Date: June 30, 2006 | Edition: Bilingual

Farsi, or Persian is the official language of Iran, where over half of the 67 million people speak the language. This version uses the Tehran standard of Farsi. In addition to a pronunciation guide and transliteration system of the Farsi alphabet, the book contains a resourceful two-way dictionary, an informative grammar section, and a collection of travel-oriented phrases, observations related to travel and culture are also interspersed throughout the phrasebook.

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About the Author

Nicholas Awde is a writer and regional consultant based in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Peter Maghashyan is a freelance journalist, analyst, and consultant on regional, political, and economic issues. He is based in Yerevan, Armenia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 219 pages
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books; Bilingual edition (June 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781810736
• ISBN-13: 978-0781810739
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 3.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars english speaker wanting to SPEAK farsi, ok, otherwise don't bother, November 1, 2007

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thelse "thelse" (usa) - See all my reviews

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This book, unlike its advertisement include no written farsi. you cannot use it to look up written farsi words, because it only includes transliterations. it would most probably be helpful for an English speaker to use to help them speak some farsi to an extent, but not helpful at all for much of anything else. disappointing because i thought we'd finally found a simple farsi-english, english-farsi book. bought for a farsi speaker, for whom it is useless.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Smaller than What I expected, January 15, 2011

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KAJAL GH (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews

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It is a good book if you want to improve your Farsi or you want to translate
something very quick.
But if you want a real dictionary and use it professionally this would not be your choice.
Overall the quality of the book was OK, I just made a bad choice.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Farsi Phrasebook/Dictionary, October 19, 2011

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Peter K Yorck (Princeton, NJ, US) - See all my reviews

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As an aspiring student of the Persian language, I can testify that this book more than packs a punch at its size - it has a good number of important phrases and the dictionary will more than get you by on a day to day basis.