Farsi/Persian Language Lessons, Reading and Dialogues for Study Materials

Summary

This site is an excellent resource for beginning Persian/Farsi learners! It was developed by professors at Princeton University.

There are 16 lessons provided in Flash format. These contain loads of useful and practical information including numbers, dialogues and readings.

It was designed for first and second semester students of the Persian language. The lessons were based around the textbook mentioned below.

From Website

This lessons were developed by Firoozeh Khazrai of the Near Eastern Studies Department with Paula Hulick of the Educational Technologies Center.

The lessons, readings and dialogues are based on the book:

Modern Persian: Spoken and Written, Volume 1

Written by: Donald L. Stilo, Kamran Talattof, and Jerome W. Clinton (Yale University Press)

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Click below to buy the textbook that the above-mentioned lessons are based on.

Submitted by polyglot on Sat, 2007-08-11 19:57.

The Princeton online presentation of the Yale Persian textbooks

Submitted by IndyInAsia (not verified) on Sat, 2009-01-03 18:19.

2009 January 3 Saturday 18:12:04 GMT Sakura Tochigi Japan

Re: Princeton's Online Yale Persian Textbook via http://freelanguage.org/comment/reply/18900#comment-form

I wish to express my profound gratitude to all of those who have worked at putting together these online learning materials. I hope you will not find my evaluation below to be too harsh. I am taking the time to submit it here in hopes that what I have judged to be a Two Star Site can be upgraded to a Four or Five Star Site.

The Good:

The "Transparent Language" Mouse-over Pop-Ups containing English translations are great.

The embedded clickable audio files, available sentence by sentence, and as entire paragraph readings, are an excellent concept.

The Bad:

The dumbfounding lack of progressive vocabulary lists make it very difficult, if not impossible, to keep apace of the developing vocabulary used in the readings without resorting to external materials.

The Ugly:

The relatively poor quality of the recordings, and the fact they are irritatingly clipped so tightly on both ends that they distort the phonetics, especially in the beginning, rudimentary lessons, creates confusion, misunderstanding, and error regarding accurate Persian pronunciation.

The Verdict:

I am genuinely saddened to have to rate this site only Two Stars, because it certainly has much greater potential. One wonders what the Princeton Scholars were thinking, unless it was, "Sell Yale Textbooks!"

Because of The Bad and the Ugly cited above, I do not envision myself making this site a PRIMARY source of Persian language study, and that's too bad. If only all incremental vocabulary items were provided within the site, this site would be an EXCELLENT primary learning resource.

Nevertheless, because of The Good cited above, I do anticipate coming here frequently to use this site as a SECONDARY, practice, review, and supplemental resource.

Sincerely,
IndyInAsia
http://www.indyinasia.tv/

Availability of the textbook

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2007-09-29 01:21.

Hi, I am interested in learning Farsi and wanted you to know that Amazon.com does not have the textbook shown on your web page for sale. I did find it at another website that sells textbooks.
I thought you might want to be aware of this.