Modern Persian: Spoken and Written, Volume 1 (Yale Language Series) - Hardcover

Stilo, Donald L.; Talattof, Kamran; Clinton, Jerome W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300100515 ISBN 13: 9780300100518

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Although Persian is one of the world’s oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from beginning to intermediate levels with a mastery of modern Persian (also known as farsi) and with an understanding of colloquial Persian.

The books offer extended vocabulary, grammar, and essays on aspects of Iranian culture. Volume I emphasizes speaking and understanding, and Volume 2 focuses on the written language. The first to teach Persian as a living language, Modern Persian incorporates the most effective methodologies and the most recent cultural and linguistic changes occurring in Iran.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Stilo is a scientist at Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, working on the Northwest Iranian Language Project in the Linguistics Department. Kamran Talattof is associate professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Jerome W. Clinton was professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

Review:

"This book offers a bold new approach to the teaching of Persian to speakers of English in general and to university students in particular. It presents a genuinely forward-looking vision both of the language learning process and of instructional methodologies."—Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300100515
• ISBN 13: 9780300100518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 544