ABSTRACT

Colloquial Persian is easy to use and completely up-to-date!

Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Persian. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

What makes this new edition of Colloquial Persian your best choice in personal language learning?

  • Interactive – lots of exercises for regular practice.
  • Clear – concise grammar notes.
  • Practical – useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide.
  • Complete – including answer key and reference section.

Whether you’re a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism; you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday – if you’d like to get up and running with Persian, this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations.

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

chapter Unit 1|9 pages

Salām

Greetings

chapter Unit 2|18 pages

ahvālporsi

Enquiring about health

chapter Unit 3|14 pages

Kojāyi hastid?

Where are you from?

chapter Unit 4|19 pages

Āxar-e hafte ce-kār kardid?

What did you do at the weekend?

chapter Unit 5|21 pages

Manzeletun kojāst?

Where′s your home?

chapter Unit 6|24 pages

Vorud be tehrān

Arriving in Tehran

chapter Unit 7|21 pages

Dar irān

In Iran

chapter Unit 8|24 pages

Goft-o-gu-ye xiābāni

Street talk

chapter Unit 9|21 pages

Gorosneid?

Are you hungry?

chapter Unit 10|19 pages

Mouqe `yathā-ye ezterâri

Emergency situations

chapter Unit 11|16 pages

Manzel

Home

chapter Unit 12|19 pages

Gardeŝ

Going out

chapter Unit 13|21 pages

Xarid

Shopping

chapter Unit 14|17 pages

Xadamāt

Services

chapter Unit 15|16 pages

Salāmat o behdāŝt

Health and hygiene

chapter Unit 16|18 pages

Ravābet bā digarān

Relations with other people

chapter Unit 17|17 pages

Kār va zabānhā-ye xāreji

Business and foreign languages