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| | Product Details | | Author: | Yavar Dehghani | | Paperback: | 260 pages | | Publisher: | Lonely Planet | | Publication Date: | November 01, 2008 | | Language: | Farsi, English | | ISBN: | 1741040604 | | Product Length: | 5.56 inches | | Product Width: | 3.66 inches | | Product Height: | 0.49 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.27 pounds | | Package Length: | 5.5 inches | | Package Width: | 3.7 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 19 reviews |
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26 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Best dictionary for English speakers Aug 22, 2002
By B. Bauer
"Brandita"
Even though I've "advanced" through most of the vocabulary and grammar in this guide, I use this as a supplement to my other Persian-English dictionaries because of the handy explanations of grammatical rules. The dictionary in the back is extremely useful, with both an English to Persian section and a section with the phonetic pronounciation of words (in Latin script) for English speakers to easily determine the meaning of (and learn to spell in Persian at the same time!). Very useful for travel and for students of the language who want a small resource guide.
25 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 not perfect, but a good resource for beginners Jan 17, 2005
By Sunny
As a student of Persian language and literature, I had some serious issues with this book. The written Persian component to the words/phrases is full of spelling mistakes. The (colloquial) pronunciation is not always consistent with itself, nor always correct, and a few of the words/phrases are a bit quaint. The book provides a great introduction to the grammar of Persian, but its explanation of Arabic plurals is misleading.
That being said, this book offers lots of great vocabulary, as well as many useful phrases that are, for the most part, idiomatically correct and commonly used. This book would prove indispensible to any traveller, and it is a good overall guide to Persian language and culture. I would, however, caution serious students of Persian not to rely too much on this book.
20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 Great for beginners Jun 20, 2003
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.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Best book for learning new Persian vocabulary words! Feb 21, 2002
I am a student and non native speaker of Persian language. For the longest time, I have been wading through grammar books in my attempt to become conversant in Farsi. Most grammar books go on and on about grammar and introduce very little conversation or new vocabulary words at the start. They emphasize how to write the Persian script which is complex to learn and all new words are written in it so these grammar textbooks insist that you can read and write Farsi before speaking it. Well, since I need to be able to communicate with Persians in dialogue this book is much better. Not perfect but quite useful to quickly get basic level of speaking skill in Farsi.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
surprisingly good May 10, 2007
By Caraculiambro
Although this is a mini-sized paperback that could easily fit into your shirt pocket, it's remarkably useful.
Each page typically has three columns: the leftmost is the English, the middle is the Farsi in romanized letters, and the right column is the Farsi in Arabic script. But it's not merely a phrasebook: there are paragraphs scattered throughout to relieve the monotony.
For example, there are many, many notes on culture and linguistic usage. Considering how much information this book contains, it's astonishing it's so small. If the pages were made bigger, it could conceivably serve serve as a freshman-level text!
Really after studying from this I was impressed by how handy I became in Farsi, although in all honesty this is likely ascribable neither to my perspicacity nor the boon of this volume, but simply to the fact that Farsi is Indo-European, and so much of its grammar and sensibilities are readily apprehended by a Westerner.
But this book was a major help. When I reflect on how little it cost me versus how much use I got out of it, Lonely Planet's "Farsi Phrasebook" may have been one of the most profitable purchases of my life.
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