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Learn how to speak Persian
Persian, also known by its
endonym Farsi, is one of the Western Iranian languages
within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language
family. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan
(officially known as Dari since 1958), and Tajikistan
(officially known as Tajiki since the Soviet era), and some
other regions which historically were Persianate societies
and considered part of Greater Iran. It is written in the
Persian alphabet, a modified variant of the Arabic script.
The Persian language is classified as a continuation of
Middle Persian, the official religious and literary language
of the Sasanian Empire, itself a continuation of Old
Persian, the language of the Achaemenid Empire. Its grammar
is similar to that of many contemporary European languages.
Persian gets its name from its origin at the capital of the
Achaemenid Empire, Persis (modern-day Fars Province), hence
the name Persian (Farsi). A Persian-speaking person may be
referred to as Persophone.
There are approximately 110 million Persian speakers
worldwide, with the language holding official status in
Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. For centuries, Persian
has also been a prestigious cultural language in other
regions of Western Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia by the
various empires based in the regions.
This foreign
language course was developed by groups commissioned by the
government. It is meant to be used as a crash course in
a foreign language for basic conversational ability by a
foreign traveler or diplomat. It is an introductory
course meant for beginners and includes basic conversational
language by native speakers.
This course
consists of a basic introduction to Persian, with text and
audio files. All told there are
132 lessons in mp3 format, with
multiple student texts
in PDF format totaling of over 950 pages. Adobe Reader is
required to view the PDF files, while the mp3 files can be
listened to by any audio player on your PC.
Total run
time of course: 40 hours, 7 minutes, 47 seconds.
A must have resource for any foreign traveler!
Notice:
Please note, this disk is only for use in your computer's
drive! It will NOT play in the DVD Player hooked up to
your TV or the CD player in your car!
This is a DVD-ROM disk, so you need a DVD-ROM drive on your PC
to play it.
This disk contains this
foreign language course in MP3 format. This is not for
use in your CD player, it is not for your DVD player, even
if they play MP3 disks. This disk is only formatted to
be opened in your computer. You have to insert this
disk in your PC, click on "My Computer" and click on the
disk to open the files. You can copy the MP3 files to
your PC, and then load them on to any MP3 player of your
choice. Please note: that if you try to
play this disk on anything other than your computer, it
won't work! |
