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Title: Lonely Planet Farsi (Persian) Phrasebook by Yavar Dehghani ISBN: 0-86442-581-3 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: ketabe khub!
Comment: I liked this book a lot. I took a college-level Farsi class and found this was more helpful than any of our textbooks in our conversations. I thought the dictionary in the back was also helpful because I could follow the logic. For example, in my full dictionary, I couldn't find "pet" or "pets." This book explained that dogs especially aren't commonly kept as pets, which was interesting.
I did not like the English transliterations. I thought they were distracting. I was also learning to read and write Farsi, so I wanted to look at the print and see words, as opposed to seeing something that needed translating. Although it may have provided a good transition for someone who didn't know the alphabet, it was frustrating for me.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for beginners
Comment: This is a great little book for beginners. Unlike many phrase books or even grammar books, it does not simply romanize the phrases, but also gives the text in the native alphabet as well. It includes basic grammar lessons, sentence structure (farsi is an S-O-V language), and 2 glossaries (English and Farsi). The phrases and vocabulary sections are well-designed because they focus on the sorts of dialogues that occur when people are just getting to know one another socially and move on to the needs of travelers. Additionally, the book is interspersed with various cultural notes and also contains some poetry by the famous author Omar Khayyam in parallel text (Farsi, Romanized Farsi, and English). In my opinion, this cheap little book is packed with more than enough information and vocab for someone in their first 1 - 2 years of studying the language and is a far greater value than most of its competitors.
Rating: 4
Summary: not perfect - but close
Comment: Great description of grammar (Persian and English, by the way), and the right number of regular and irregular verbs are given in table form so you can see the differences easily. Also they have some excellent recommendations for how to get started with speaking a new language, which I only wish could be taught to more kids at school level. Two things let this book down just slightly: (i) they drop the "spelt-out-in-words" translations showing the Persian word order a little too early in the book, and (ii) the dictionary at the back frustratingly omits quite a few of the words encountered in the course of the book. Recommended, but if they write a second edition and fix up a few of these things then it will be just about perfect !
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Title: Farsi-English/English-Farsi (Persian) Concise Dictionary by Miandjl, Anooshirvan M. Miandji ISBN: 078180860X Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Your First 100 Words in Persian by Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar ISBN: 0071412247 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 29 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Colloquial Persian The Complete Course for Beginners (With cassette) by Abdi Rafiee, Abdi Raflee ISBN: 041515751X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Iran (3rd Edition) by Pat Yale, Anthony Ham, Paul Greenway ISBN: 0864427565 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: An English-Persian Dictionary by Dariush Gilani ISBN: 0936347953 Publisher: Ibex Pub Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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