Colloquial Persian

The Complete Course for Beginners

Abdi Rafiee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

538 Seiten

2023 | 4th edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-35673-0 (ISBN)

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Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed to provide a step-by-step course to Persian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical, and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Persian in a broad range of situations.

Each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points across different key topics for communicating in Persian. This fourth edition offers thoroughly updated and expanded cultural notes, refined language points offering greater clarity and understanding of the most difficult points, a clearer introduction to the Persian script, and new audio material. Balanced, comprehensive, and rewarding, Colloquial Persian is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Persian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

• Jargon-free, succinct, and clearly structured explanations of grammar.

• An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises.

• Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations.

• Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Iran.

• An overview of the sounds of Persian.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. The audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

Abdi Rafiee is a Farsi (Persian) teacher at the University of Westminster, London, UK.

Introduction
Reading and writing in Persian
Guidelines for Persian writing

سلام 1 salām
Greetings
Dialogue 1 Greeting and leave-taking
Dialogue 2 Introducing yourself

احوال پرسی 2 ahvāl-porsi
Enquiring about health
Dialogue 1 How’re you?
Dialogue 2 Pleased to meet you!

کجايی هستيد؟ 3 kojāyi hastid?
Where are you from?
Dialogue 1 Party game: Who am I?
Dialogue 2 Introducing B to C

آخر هفته چه کار کرديد؟ 4 āxar-e hafte ce-kār kardid?
What did you do at the weekend?
Dialogue 1 Wish you were there!
Dialogue 2 Nothing to write home about!

منزلتون کجاست؟ 5 manzeletun kojāst?
Where’s your home?
Dialogue 1 Giving your details
Dialogue 2 Asking about family

ورود به تهران 6 vorud be tehrān
Arriving in Tehran
Dialogue 1 How long will you stay in Iran?
Dialogue 2 Going through customs

در ايران 7 dar irān
In Iran
Dialogue 1 Getting a taxi
Dialogue 2 Checking into a hotel

گفت وگوی خيابانی 8 goft-o-gu-ye xiābāni
Street talk
Dialogue 1 Asking directions
Dialogue 2 Is there a metro station around here?

گرسنه ايد؟ 9 gorosneid?
Are you hungry?
Dialogue 1 At the dinner table
Dialogue 2 Is this seat taken?

موقعيّت های اضطراری 10 mouqe`iyathā-ye ezterāri
Emergency situations
Dialogue 1 At the police station
Dialogue 2 Describing appearance

منزل 11 manzel
Home
Dialogue 1 Answering the phone
Dialogue 2 I’m looking for a flat

گردش 12 gardeŝ
Going out
Dialogue 1 If the weather gets better . . .
Dialogue 2 What are your hobbies?

خريد 13 xarid
Shopping
Dialogue 1 Haggling
Dialogue 2 In a corner shop

خدمات 14 xadamāt
Services
Dialogue 1 At the post office
Dialogue 2 Exchanging currencies

سلامت و بهداشت 15 salāmat o behdāŝt
Health and hygiene
Dialogue 1 Hello, Doctor
Dialogue 2 At the pharmacy

روابط با ديگران 16 ravābet bā digarān
Relations with other people
Dialogue 1 Giving and receiving gifts
Dialogue 2 Arranging to meet

کار و زبان های خارجی 17 kār va zabānhā-ye xāreji
Business and foreign languages
Dialogue 1 A business appointment
Dialogue 2 A job interview

Key to the exercises
Reference grammar
Persian–English glossary
English–Persian glossary

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Colloquial Series
Zusatzinfo	88 Tables, black and white; 20 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	820 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-35673-1 / 1032356731
ISBN-13	978-1-032-35673-0 / 9781032356730
Zustand	Neuware