Customer Reviews

Language 30 Persian (Farsi) (Persian Edition)

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Tapes are good and clear, each word or phrase is repeated twice and then the pupil can repeat it. Book is reasonably laid out, with phrases written in Farsi as well, so local people can use it to ask you questions or tell you things.

However some of the phrases are difficult and less useful. The book also does not give a lot of help when constructing your own sentences.

But it is cheap, and gets you off to a good start

The tutorial teaches the basic phrases and vocabulary used in everyday spoken Persian. I listened to it while on the airplane and I learned enough Persian to deal with customs, hail a cab, and check into a hotel. It comes with a booklet full of polite phrases you can use to impress the locals. I highly recommend it.

The course consists of two audio tapes and a small booklet containing many everyday words and phrases.

The tapes contain a recording of a native speaker reading out loud all the words and phrases. The recordings are clear and each word or phrase is repeated twice, with a pause giving the student time to repeat and practice for himself.

This course is excellent for beginners (such as myself). There are no grammar explanations, but the many useful sentences are presented with alternate words in italic, so you can figure out which words you can change to alter the meaning (e.g. I want an apple / banana / pear...).

By the end of the course, be prepared to know complete sentences WITHOUT necessarily understanding what each word in the sentence means or how it go there. Nevertheless, Iranians are very impressed when I utter the sentences from this course to them.

The reason I give this course 4/5 stars is that it is not up-to-date. The course I have, which I purchased in 1995, was printed in 1974 - five years before the islamic revolution in Iran! So the section about social etiquette could use changes... but hey, this is a language course, and teach the language it does.

This set is a decent value. For your money, you get a fairly broad range of phrases and vocabulary. However, the organization of information assumes that you can keep interest listening to a bunch of discrete phrases repeated one after the other with no conversations or anything remotely natural. If you can, in fact, maintain interest while listening to these tapes repeatedly, then you'll do well with this set. If, on the other hand, you need something more dynamic, you might do well to look elsewhere.