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Persian Vocabulary

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This book is not intended to be used by itself, but as an accompaniment to the author's "Persian Grammar" and it must be considered in this light. Students or reviewers who are unaware of this may be disappointed.

Lambton's grammar is one of the two best currently available for Persian (the other is that of Thackston Wheeler). This vocabulary complements its exercises and readings.

Even the author said that this book was not a dictionary, but rather a vocabulary list for the university course she taught. And that was sometime in the 1950's, if I recall correctly. In addition, Cambridge University Press have a bloody nerv ceontinuing to sell this book after 60 or so years, and the recent editions are obviously merely a digital scan of the original typeset edition, with the Persian printing being quite atrocious and often illegible. If you want a great Farsi dictionary, Google Aryanpour (or Aryanpoor) or go to [...] and look for dictionaries by this author and published by Amir Kabir in Iran (at Iranibooks you'll have to register to navigate the site). These dictionaries are excellent, comprehensive, clearly printed, and buying from Iranibooks I have always received prompt delivery, no hidden fees, and secure payment through a US based site. My personal favorites are the Persian/English Pocket Dictionary, and the English/Persian Pocket Dictionary (Farhang-e Jibi... etc).

The strengths of this book are its phonetic notation, size and reasonable choice of vocabulary. It's a lot handier than bigger dictionaries, but unfortunately lacks many words one comes across in newspapers, poems, etc. It's certainly worth owning!

This book is entitled "Persian Vocabulary," however "Persian Wordlist" would be a more appropriate title. I would much rather own a dictionary than this book. After having studied more languages than I can count and combing through books both valuable and worthless I believe that, at least for someone who learns languages the way that I do, this book would not help much. Why doesn't someone write a book with vocabulary learning techniques in mind? If the auther were to take a tenth of the vocabulary in this book and present it in an interesting, easy to learn format such a book would be well worth purchasing.

This book is missing graphics furthermore, It is kind of outdated...