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FARSIPERSIAN

READING BOOKLET

PIMSLEUR

SIMON & SCHUSTERS


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FARSI PERSIAN

VOICES

English-Speaking Instructor .......................Ray Brown

Female Persian Speaker ......................... Shirin Shams

Male Persian Speaker ........... Manoucher Madanipour

and Persian-Speaking Instructor

COURSEWRITERS

Delaram Soltani Joan Schoellner

EDITORS

Elizabeth Horber Beverly D. Heinle

REVIEWER

Manoucher Madanipour

EXECUTIVEPRODUCERBeverly D. Heinle

PRODUCER& DIRECTOR

Sarah H. McInnis

RECORDINGENGINEERSPeter S. Turpin Kelly Saux

Simon & Schuster Studios, Concord, MA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


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Lesson 1

Reading Lessons

The Persian Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Written Persian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Diacritical Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Alphabet Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

The Reading Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Lesson 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Lesson 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Lesson 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Lesson 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Lesson 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Lesson 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Lesson 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Lesson 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Lesson 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Lesson 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Lesson 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Lesson 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Lesson 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Lesson 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Lesson 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Lesson 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Lesson 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Lesson 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Lesson 18 (with diacritical marks) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

TABLE OF CONTENTS


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The Persian Language

Persian is the official language of Iran,

Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. It belongs to the

Indo-Iranian group of languages and is spoken

worldwide by approximately seventy-five million

people.

Persian has three major dialects: Farsi (spoken

in Iran and taught in this course), Dari (spoken

in Afghanistan), and Tajik (spoken in Tajikistan).

Dari and Tajik are considered a purer form of

Persian that is, they show less Arab influence but all three dialects are more or less mutually

intelligible.

Persian was originally called Parsi; it was

named after the Parsa, who ruled Iran between 550

and 330 B.C. The name Farsi is an Arabic form,reflecting the fact that Arabic has no letter p.

Modern Persian, as it is spoken today, evolved from

Classical Persian, which became the lingua franca

of the eastern Islamic nations during the ninth

century. It was spoken from the borders of India to

the Mediterranean, and from Russia to the PersianGulf. At the same time, extensive contact with the

Arab world led to a large influx of Arabic vocab-

ulary. During the thirteenth century, the Ottoman

kings continued to spread the language throughout

Asia minor. In fact, prior to British colonization,


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The Persian Language (continued)

Classical Persian was so widely used that it became

the second language in the Indian subcontinent.

Classical Persian is still preserved today through

the writings of distinguished poets such as Rudaki,

Ferdowsi, and Khayyam.

Classical Persian remained relatively un-

changed until the end of the eighteenth century.

From then on the dialect of Tehran rose in promi-

nence and eventually became the basis of what

is now called Contemporary Standard Persian.Although it still contains a large number of Arabic

terms, most borrowings have been nativized, with

a much lower percentage of Arabic words used in

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Modern Persian uses a modified version of

the Arabic alphabet, with thirty-two letters as

opposed to twenty-eight in Arabic. Despite their

shared alphabet, however, Persian and Arabic

are entirely different languages. Persian does nothave capital letters, but uses an adapted form of

Western punctuation.

Written Persian has the following character-

istics:

It is read from right to left except for numbers,which go from left to right.

Persian letters are distinguished by one, two,

or three dots, which are placed above or below the

letter or, in some cases, by the lack of dots.

As in English handwriting, most Persian letters

connect to those that follow them. However, seven

letters, called non-connectors, connect only to

letters that precede them.

When letters connect to a preceding letter, theyoften modify their shape, undergoing a reduction

when the two are joined together.

Written Persian


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Some letters also modify their shape according

to their position in a word depending on whether

they appear in initial, medial, or final position.

In standard written Persian, the so-called

short vowels are usually omitted. They may berepresented by diacritical marks, as they are in these

reading lessons. The three long vowels, however

often appearing in transliteration as aa, oo,

and ee are written.

The appearance of some letters may vary,depending on the choice of font.

A complete listing of the Persian diacriticals and

the Persian alphabet follows. The alphabet is listed

as a two-page spread. You should use this chart for

reference only, as all the information you need to dothe readings is contained on the audio.

Written Persian (continued)


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Diacritical Marks

Name in Diacritical SoundTransliteration (with an alef)

fathe / zebar

kasre / zir

zame / pish

mad

/ a / as in hat

/ e / as in shell

/ o / as in home

/ aa / as infather or awe

Four other diacritical marks exist as well, but theyare much less common. They are:

1. tashid ( ): Appears over a consonant, indicat-ing that it should be doubled, or pronounced twice.Used primarily with words of Arabic origin.

2. hamze (): Written over a letter, indicating aglottal stop.

3. tanvin (

): Shown here with an alef. Rarelyused; primarily appears over a final alef, in whichcase the alefis silent and the preceding letter addsan "n" sound.

4. sokoon / saken (): Written above a consonant,indicating the absence of a vowel.


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Alphabet Chart

Symbol in Final Medial InitialTransliteration un/connected Position Position

* \

b \

p \

t \

s \

j

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ch \

h \

kh / x \

d

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z \

r \

z \

zh

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s \

sh \

* After a consonant, alef sounds like ahor awe. In initial posi-

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Alphabet Chart

Name Name in Letter

Transliteration

alef

be

pe

te

se

jim

che

)( he (jimi)

khe

daal

zaal

re

ze

zhe

sin

shin

indicates a non-connector - that is, a letter that does not connect

to the one following it.


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Alphabet Chart

Symbol in Final Medial InitialTransliteration un/connected Position Position

s \

z \

t \

z \

a \

gh / q

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f \

gh / q \

k \

g

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l \

m \

n \

v / oo

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h \

ye / i-ee \


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Name Name in Letter

Transliteration

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Alphabet Chart

saad

zaad

taa

zaa

eyn/ayn

qeyn/qayn

fe

qaaf

kaaf

gaaf

laam

mim

noon

vav

)( he (do cheshm)

ye


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The Reading Lessons

There are eighteen Persian reading lessons

recorded at the end of the program. You may choose

to do the readings along with the units, after every

other unit or so, or all together after completing the

rest of the course. Feel free to repeat the readinglessons as often as necessary for practice with the

Persian alphabet and the sounds it represents.

Some of the words and phrases you will read

are taught in this course, but most are not, and

especially in the early lessons some may simplybe syllables rather than actual words. Actual words,

and familiar words, are used more and more as the

number of letters introduced increases.


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Lesson 18 (with diacritical marks)

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