Author: Rafiee, Abdi.

Title: Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners.

Number of Volume(s):One.

Place of Publication: London.

Publisher: Routledge. 

Date of Publication: 2001.

Number of Pages: XIII, 281.

Language of Instruction: English.

Comments: Two audiocassettes.

Subjects: Reading, Writing, Conversation, Dialogue, Exercises

                , Key to Exercises, Glossary.

Abstract: Two groups of learners are addressed: 

Those who intend to write, read and speak in Persian;

 and those who wish to communicate in Persian without

 learning the script.  The colloquial dialect of educated residents

 of Tehran is being taught here.Divides into two sections. 

Persian sounds and script are introduced along with some 

exercises in the first section. The second section includes

 sixteen lessons. Each lesson consists of two dialogues in 

colloquial Persian. A glossary of new words, linguistic points 

and exercises follow each dialogue, and a test including the 

main points of each lesson comes at the end of each lesson. 

The tittles of the lessons include: “Where is Your Home?”,

 “Arriving in Tehran.”, “Shopping”,  and “ Contacts with Others”.

 At the end come the key to the exercises, a summary of grammatical

 points, and a glossary of Persian-English and English-Persian in

 three- Persian, English, and phonetic transcription of Persian words.