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Farsi Classes at our Language Door School in San Diego. Serving students in San Diego, El Cajon, Santee, Chula Vista, La Mesa, La Jolla California.
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Language Door San Diego offers small interactive Farsi classes! Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning Farsi fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
Farsi or Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, a standard and well-recognized tongue as early as the 6th century B.C. E. Persian was the language of the great Persian Empire which at one time extended from the Mediterranean to the Indus River in India.The language was written in Cuneiform, the wedge-shaped characters used throughout much of the ancient world. In the 2nd century B.C. the Persians created their own alphabet, known as Pahlavi, which remained in use until the Islamic conquest of the 7th century. Since that time Persian has been written in the Arabic script with a number of additional characters to accommodate special sounds. Modern Persian is spoken by over 40 million people in Iran and another 5 million in Afghanistan. English words of Persian origin include shawl, pajama, taffeta, khaki, kiosk, divan, lilac, jasmine, julep, jackal, caravan, bazaar, checkmate, dervish, and satrap.
You can learn Farsi at Language Door San Diego!
Please check the schedule.
For the Beginning A to
Intermediate C classes, we use "Colloquial Persian" by Routledge.
For subsequent classes, please
contact us at our San Diego Language Door School
to discuss further.
Colloquial Persian is the ideal introduction to the modern language, also known as Farsi,
as spoken in Iran.
The author, an experienced teacher of the language, has devised a step-by-step approach to written and
spoken Persian.
Learning to reand and write Persian script is made as easy as possible. For those who wish
to communicate in Persian without studying the script, romanization is included throughout.
Other features include:
- concise grammar explanations
- lively dialogues with essential everyday vocabulary
- Persian-English and English-Persian glossaries.
120 minutes of audio material is available to accompany this course, on either
cassettes or CDs. Recorded by native speakers, these will help you perfect your pronunciation
and listening skills.
Colloquial Persian will enable you to speak, read and write Persian with confidence.
Beginning A (chapters 1-3)
Topics - Greetings, meeting people,
interests and numbers, etc.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, tones, scripts, personal pronouns,
negative form, expressing possession, singular, plural indefinite pronoun,
expressing nationality, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 4-7)
Topics - Days of the week, family, travel plan,
street talk, etc.
Grammar and usage - preposition, present simple tense, compound verbs,
comparative adjective, superlative adjective, future simple tense,
reduction, present continuous, definite article, imperative, simple
subjunctive, past simple tense, infinitive, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 8-11)
Topics - food, drinks, restaurant,
telephone conversation, going out, etc.
Grammar and usage - Adverbs of frequency, double negative, present
perfect, past continuous, past perfect, indefinite pronoun, conjunction,
relative clauses, conditionals part 1, contrastive stress, etc.
Beginning D (chapters 12-16)
Topics - shopping, services, health and hygiene, relations with
others, business, etc.
Grammar and usage - conditional part 2&3, impersonal construction,
passive sentences, titles, noun derivation, reported speech, etc.
Intermediate and advanced levels
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us at our San Diego Language Door School. Ask about our military discount!
Abdi Rafiee [the author of the book] has more than 30 years' experience of teaching Persian.
He is currently teaching at the University of Westminster, London, and is Chief Examiner for
GCSW and A-level Persian. He is also a freelance interpreter and translator.
Language Description
Farsi (modern Persian) is mostly used in Iran
and western Afghanistan.
Further Information
For further information about San Diego Farsi classes, Los Angeles Farsi
classes, San Fernando Valley Farsi classes or Orange
County Farsi classes, please follow the links on the navigation bar on the right. Thank you!
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