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Teach Yourself Modern Persian/Farsi Complete Course Audiopack | 
 enlarge | Author: Narguess Farzad
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
List Price: $28.95
Buy New: $16.55
You Save: $12.40 (43%)
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 335594
Media: Audio CD
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.6 x 2.1
ISBN: 007141908X
Dewey Decimal Number: 492
UPC: 639785416227
EAN: 9780071419086
ASIN: 007141908X
Publication Date: July 2004
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Excellent October 31, 2008
Jeffrey L. Espana
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I absolutely recommend this book for learning Farsi. It is a great resource. Some may think that the lessons perhaps go too fast. However, if you take time to learn the alphabet really well, learning all the letters and rewriting them many times, learning the vocab. will be a great deal easier. Take your time through the lessons, make sure you review and most importantly PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! language is a skill, it must be used everyday. In addition to learning from this book. I recommend you look at television from Iran online or if you have the dish that carries it, hearing the news in Farsi or watching programs where native people speak the language will greatly aid you in pronunciation. The TEACH YOURSELF books are EXCELLENT. I strongly recommend that if you want to learn another language and do not have time to take a course in college, get the TEACH YOURSELF books.
A great start to Persian May 28, 2008
Kliea Josdenven (Yakima, WA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would recommend this book. It is not the only book you will need to learn Persian, but it is a great start. I am not a native speaker and have found this very useful. It makes it simple to teach yourself.
 Try Colloquial Persian or Introduction to Persian for a better course August 31, 2007
Gwilym
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
The books in the Teach Yourself series are very uneven in quality. I just surfed through the amazing Teach Yourself Afrikaans, an excellen language course. This one, sadly, is far from good. Believe it or not, Persian is one of the easiest languages you'll come across, the grammar is exceptionally easy. For that reason, the lack of indepth grammar in this course is no big problem. A far bigger problem is the very weak pronunciation section. Persian is an easy language to pronounce once you learn the rules, but you won't with this course. The worst problem is the vocabulary, you'll learn very few words. Having read and reviewed hundreds of language courses at a professional level, I've encountered very few with such a limited vocabulary. So, almost no help with the pronunciation, not much grammar and a far too limited vocabulary. What do you really learn with this course. Not much, hence the low rating. There are many courses that are better, such as Colloquial Persian, An Introduction to Persian or Modern Persian. Any of those three books will teach you far more than this one.
this set comes with one book ( beware: it's the 2004 , 1. edition, only ! ), & two CD's each 60 minutes long. April 21, 2007
rev1ewer (Denmark)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Book is 256 pages; not counting the 30-pages introduction.
The book has altogether 47 pages of vocabulary. Lots of scripts and exercises.
If you're not too thorough and meticuosly about it, you might not bother about the 'Better Together. Buy Together... ' revised 2. editions book suggestion !
This Amazon product link: Teach Yourself: Modern Persian (Teach Yourself) in fact points to the book's second edition,(July 1, 2004, 266 pages long). It's the revised book, only - * no CD's * !
You should read this other review 'Decent, but could be a lot
better, July 21, 2006' before you make up your mind, wether or
not this set will do for you (with or without the revised 2.
edition) ;; or if you in fact must have one of the many newer,
updated editions of this set!
 Decent, but could be a lot better July 21, 2006
James9 (Michigan)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
For the price, it's a good deal if you get the CDs. But like all TY books, it goes very quickly, especially the second half. And it really focuses on grammar. There is surprisingly little about Iran or Persian culture, there is no color anywhere (and uninteresting layout in general), the images used are terrible (couldn't they afford actual pictures?), and there are mistakes in every chapter, although they're generally pretty small and easy to see. On the other hand, there isn't exactly much competition.
Vocabulary is also an issue - sometimes they give you tons of vocab to help with the readings and exercises, other times barely any. And short vowel markings are inconsistent, which is a little confusing for the beginner.
Overall, it's an okay book, but could be a lot better.
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