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Exercises & Lessons
- Easy Persian: Vocabulary LessonsProvides online lessons in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Persian or Farsi as spoken in Iran. Includes specific lessons on Persian vocabulary.
- Digital Dialects: Farsi LanguageOffers a number of different games that help users build their Persian vocabulary and quiz themselves.
- My Languages: Persian VocabularyContains a variety of Persian vocabulary lessons and includes interactive games and exercises that help users enhance their learning of the Persian language.
- Persian Online: Vocabulary ListsFrom the University of Texas at Austin, this resource offers a set of vocabulary lists, including audio, on different themes. A good resource for those who wish to improve their Persian vocabulary.
Selected Books
- Modern Persian (e-book) byISBN: 0203641809Publication Date: 2005-04-01This course assumes no prior knowledge of the language and begins with the teaching of the Persian alphabet. Grammar and vocabulary are covered in full and the course places equal emphasis on reading, writing and speaking.
Persian Vocabulary by Call Number: PK6379 .L3ISBN: 0521091543Publication Date: 1953-01-01This work, a companion to Professor Lambtons Persian Grammar (also available in a Students Edition), is intended mainly for the student of contemporary Persian. The Persian-English and English-Persian sections contain a wide range of the more common words and phrases.
The Combined New Persian-English and English-Persian Dictionary by Call Number: PK6379 .A69 1986ISBN: 0939214296Publication Date: 1986-03-01
A Frequency Dictionary of Persian by ISBN: 9781315735511Publication Date: 2017-07-20A Frequency Dictionary of Persian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Persian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. Based on a 150 million word corpus of written and spoken Persian texts from the Iranian world, the Dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, plus alphabetical and part-of-speech indices. All entries feature the English equivalent, and an example of use in context.
