Request: Persian Language Sites
Shahin Malekpour
A friend - a fellow living in Sydney Australia - has asked
for resources to help him learn the Persian language.
Whilst I am aware of a few such site on the Net, new and
improved sites are added continually. No doubt there are
SCI readers who keep abreast of them. I would appreciate
being directed to such sites, plus information on dictionaries
and other relevant resources available on the Internet.
Many thanks in advance,
Shahin Malekpour
Shahin Malekpour
learning resources on the net which I have
complied in order to help a beginner.
Additional contributions to this thread would
of course assist in developing a useful introductory
FAQ reference to better enable future enquirers
in SCI.
Shahin Malekpour
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1. Free Online Persian Learning Resources:
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Persian Alphabet:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/farsi.html
Orientaal's links for Persian Language Learning
http://users.pandora.be/orientaal/farsiabad.html
Persian is Sugar!
http://members.tripod.com/~shahriar/persian/titlepage.html
Learning Persian little by little
http://www.persianenglish.com/
Persian Language:
http://www.farsinet.com/farsi/
Persian (Farsi) Language Learning Resources.
http://www.call.gov/resource/language/perlr000.htm
Welcome to the home page of the Association for Persian
Language, Linguistics and Computing (APL2C) administrated
from the Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh.
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~apl2c/home.html
2. Free On Line Dictionaries:
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A basic English Persian / Persian English Dictionary:
http://www.farsidic.com/FarsiDic.asp
An online English to Persian Colloquial Dictionary.
The site also features an Alphabet Directory:
http://gheyaspour.tripod.com/farhang/index.html
Zeal > Reference > Dictionaries > Language > Indo-European Languages:
http://www.zeal.com/Reference/Dictionaries/Language/Indo_European_Languages/
Farsi__Persian_/
Today's Persian Word (Quiz):
http://www.arizonapersian.com/persian/quiz.htm
3. Learning Persian Forum
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http://www.arizonapersian.com/learningpersian/
4. Commercial Persian Learning Resources:
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http://www.vahid.com/
Comments on above:
http://www.vahid.com/comments.htm
http://www.worldlanguage.com/banner/arizonapersian.html
http://www.netstoreusa.com/labooks/091/0910542759.shtml
http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n60467
The Persian Language Study Bookstore:
Persian/Farsi Language Books In Association
with Amazon.Com Books
http://www.smokefreekids.com/persian.htm
Persian/Iranian World Wide Web and Internet
Resources, Services and Products:
http://www.persianweb.com/indexb.html
Linguix Persian Language Study Virtual Library
Click onto any of the Persian language book
titles below for a fuller description of the title.
http://www.linguix.com/persian.htm
One Thousand & One Persian-English Proverbs (commercial):
http://www.netstoreusa.com/labooks/093/0936347929.shtml
1001 Persian and English Proverbs by Simin K. Habibian
http://www.ibexpub.com/0936347929.html
5. Books, Discussions, Opinions:
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Persian or Farsi? The debate continues...
http://www.iranian.com/Features/Dec97/Persian/
http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/June98/Language/
IRANIAN NATIONALITY AND
THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE
A book by Shahrokh Meskoob
Foreword by Ali Banuazizi
Translated by Michael Hillmann
The site features the Forward and
an Interview with the author.
http://www.mage.com/NAT.html
Against the Theory of "Sexist Language":
"... the presence of gender in language bears no relation
whatsoever to the nature of the corresponding societies.
The best historically conspicuous example is Persian.
Old Persian, like Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit, had the original
Indo-European genders of masculine, feminine, and neuter.
By Middle Persian all gender had disappeared. This was not
the result of Persian feminist criticism, nor was it the result of
the evolution of an equal opportunity society for women.
It just _happened_."
http://www.friesian.com/language.htm
The language policy of Iran:
http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~rdemirb1/PUBLIC/lang2.html
6. General Information on Iran and the History Of Persian Language:
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From Ancient Persia to Contemporary Iran covers the highlights
of Iran's history in a brief, easy to read, factually acurate and
inexpensive timeline. (This publication focuses on the history
of Iran and does not address contemporary events.)
http://www.mage.com/TLbody.html
Persia's Cultural Golden Ages 820 - 1220
http://www.mehan.com/cultural.htm
The Persian Language It is an Indo-European Language.
It has three Major known era:
http://app.4anything.com/nf/ink-i1-f/http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~fsaber1/langua
ge/language.html
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/profiles/profp01.htm
http://www.unc.edu/~mrjahan/iran.html
http://www.sayyarehtourist.com/language.html
Pahlawi/Farsi/Dari
http://www.afghan-web.com/language/farsidari.html
7. Other Useful Links:
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Linguist Ethnology of Iran:
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Iran.html
"Persian Literature" ***A Superb Site***:
http://www.artarena.force9.co.uk/sagalit.htm
The Epic Of Shahnaameh Ferdowsi,
full English version (illustrated):
http://www.persian.com/ferdowsi/home.html
An Iranian Christian Site. It's very good and contains an
alphbet book, a book of Persian proverbs (in Persian)
plus a wealth of other Iranian cultural aspects:
http://www.farsinet.com/farsi.html
The Catholic Encyclopaedia: Persia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11712a.htm
ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA; Persian Language:
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/9/0,5716,60829+1+59341,00.html
THE SPLENDOR OF PERSIA
The Land and The People
Robert Payne
http://ali.sdc.uwo.ca/splendor1.html
Iran a Pictorial Tour. A nice site.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Maison/5612/
8. Special insight:
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Bridge to Victory, a WWII view of Iran:
http://www.iranian.com/History/Nov97/WWII/
CIA OVERTHROW OF PREMIER MOSSADEQ OF IRAN
November 1952-August 1953
http://cryptome.org/cia-iran-all.htm
9. Iranian News Sites in English:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
http://www.payvand.com/news/
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