Teach Yourself Modern Persian/Farsi Complete Course Audiopack [Audio CD]

Narguess Farzad (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2004 | ISBN-10: 007141908X | ISBN-13: 978-0071419086 | Edition: 1

Learning Modern Persian as easy as 1-2-3

With this book, Modern Persian is attainable for any beginning student. You can use Teach Yourself Modern Persian Complete Course at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.

Prepared by experts in the language, Teach Yourself Modern Persian begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

• Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
• Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
• Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
• Practical vocabulary
• Regular and irregular verb tables
• Plenty of practice exercises and answers
• Bilingual glossary

Package includes two 60-minute CDs and a book.

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About the Author

Born in Iran, Narguess Farzad was educated in Tehran and the University of London, where she now teaches Persian language and literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (July 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007141908X
• ISBN-13: 978-0071419086
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.6 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #893,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #48 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Persian & Farsi

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yes, it comes with a book, July 19, 2005

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Eric D. Howerton "Bizzle Fitz" (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Modern Persian/Farsi Complete Course Audiopack (Audio CD)

Despite AMAZON encouraging you to purchase this item with the "Teach Yourselff Modern Persian/Farsi" book under the BETTER TOGETHER subhead, the audiopack does in fact come with the book as well! If you purchase the audiopack you do not need the book.

My girlfriend is Persian and has noted that some of the numbers and letters in the Persian script are not quite accurate. I believe the letter for D is not slanted enough to distinguish it from other letters.

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not bad but too speedy, December 25, 2004

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Nana "drna113" (Kuwait) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Modern Persian/Farsi Complete Course Audiopack (Audio CD)

It started as a good book letting the lerner take his time especially for beginners . Then it was too fast and there was alot of vocabulary. You will get lost somewhere in the middle and will jump to long articles with not enough explanation. The audio CD is good in teaching pronunciation but it was not enough and did not include all topics. Some chapters were not included at all inthe audio CD

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Resource, September 6, 2005

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Nikolas Rodriguez "les quatre princes" (Marshall, VA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Modern Persian/Farsi Complete Course Audiopack (Audio CD)

This book is a good start for those who are serious about learning Farsi. The introduction to the language's script is very good, as well as the pronunciation guide and the examples on the CDs. My only qualm is the speediness of the course. A dictionary is recommended with this book because some words used in the dialogues are not in the index. It is definitely better than the older edition of this book by John Mace.