| Monday, 20 Jan 2013 |
The Most Common Verbs are the Tricky ones!
to feel cold
to like
to be hungry
to be thirsty
They conjugate in
the 3rd singular only |
| Monday, 23 July 2012 |
Hāmed Shāh Abbāsi's Book of War
Jangnāme
Issues in Indo-Persian Unicode |
| Monday, 14 May 2012 |
Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad's Autobiographical Work
A Stone on a Grave
Professor
Hillmann's Advanced Course |
| Monday, 12 Dec 2011 |
More Paleographical Exercises
Index of
Manuscript Drills
Real Scanned
Persian Manuscripts |
| Monday, 5 Dec 2011 |
Deciphering Persian Manuscripts
No-Stress Drag & Drop Exercise
Who
needs dots and word spaces?! |
| Monday, 28 Nov 2011 |
A Scene from the film
No One Knows
About Persian Cats
With
Vocabulary Flashcards and Grammar Points |
| Monday, 21 Nov 2011 |
Four Kinds of Subordinate Clauses:
concession
place
reason
time
Let Subordination Dominate
your Persian! |
| Monday, 14 Nov 2011 |
When you can't remember what's-her-face's's name:
Using
/chiz/ to fill in for a person's name
Examples
of Hesitation Forms |
| Monday, 7 Nov 2011 |
Sent in by one of the website visitors:
Vocabulary
Flashcards for "The Chair"
What a nice gift! |
| Monday, 31 Oct 2011 |
Got a Non-Searcheable Persian PDF?
Persian
"Comments" in a PDF File
A nice
feature for Persian scholars |
| Monday, 25 Oct 2011 |
Tehrān colloquial feature:
/ān/
pronounced /un/
khune, esfahun,
sākhtemun, ishun |
| Monday, 17 Oct 2011 |
hālā barā-t ye chāi dam mikonam
Present
Indicative Functions as Future
Example
Sentences with this Verb Tense |
| Monday, 10 Oct 2011 |
What is your Major?
Flashcard
Drill: Fields of Study
Also see
in
list format with audio |
| Monday, 3 Oct 2011 |
A worry-free vocabulary item:
Expressions
with bi-khiāl
bi-khiāl! |
| Monday, 26 Sep 2011 |
Windows, Mac, Linux
Iranian
Standard Keyboard ISIRI 9147
Download,
Install, Enable |
| Monday, 13 Dec 2010 |
bā in hame kār...
/bā/
meaning "what with", "due to"
Example Sentences with Audio! |
| Monday, 6 Dec 2010 |
hame-chi(z) * hanu(z) *
a(z) kojā
/-z/
deletion in Persian
Example Sentences with Audio! |
| Monday, 18 Oct 2010 |
bā-h-ā-shān be-h-esh
be-h-et
Euphonic -h- Glide Insertion
Example Sentences with Audio! |
| Monday, 11 Oct 2010 |
abfa sia naja fava savak
Persian Abbreviations and Acronyms
Example Sentences
Showing Usage |
| Monday, 4 Oct 2010 |
3 More `Omar Khayyām Quatrains
Venus face
* Koo Koo
* Gur & Gur
Very suitable for beginners! Give them a try! |
| Monday, 27 Sept 2010 |
Consider yourself culturally literate?
Khāqāni's
Palace at Madāen
Make sure you have read and understood this
one! |
| Monday, 21 Sept 2010 |
How do you say ...?
"the
blue one" "the small ones"
Translating from English |
| Monday, 13 Sept 2010 |
Reflexives: Change the Pronoun with Ezāfe to...
Enclitic
Suffix or
Khod
more
drills with audio |
| Monday, 6 Sept 2010 |
Mohammad Nouri sings....
Iran
Iran
with a Listening Comprehension exercise |
| Monday, 30 Aug 2010 |
Digit-by-Digit doesn't work in Persian...
How
to Read Out Phone Numbers
More exercises
with "Bachche-Sulsul" |
| Monday, 2 Aug 2010 |
A Very Big Thank-you
Volunteer
Sentence Contributors
Keep the sentences coming! |
| Monday, 13 July 2010 |
Nice and Colloquial...
sentence-final
/ke/, an emphatic "you know"
List of Drills |
| Monday, 5 July 2010 |
Spoken Persian breaks all the rules in the
textbooks!
ezāfe
deletion, definite article -a- with pronoun
suffix
List of Drills |
| Monday, 28 June 2010 |
Yet another use of /tā/
tā
meaning "than" after a verb
List of Drills |
| Monday, 21 June 2010 |
fardā-sh: its next day, the next day?
-esh
as a place-holder or link
List of Drills |
| Monday, 14 June 2010 |
I, name of me is ...
Fronting:
refer back to the topic by pronoun suffix
List of Drills |
| Monday, 7 June 2010 |
Ezāfe not allowed! Definite "the" on Noun-ADJ
phrase!
The
BIG house but not the small one
List of Drills |
| Monday, 31 May 2010 |
Definite article "the" suffix -(h)e is -(h)a
before rā
-e
becomes -a
-he becomes -ha
List of Drills |
| Monday, 24 May 2010 |
/ast/ doesn't always become /-e/
Copula
Suffix -s after /a/ & /ā/ in Speaking
List of Drills |
| Monday, 17 May 2010 |
/hā/ tag for emphasis
emphatic
(h)ā on imperatives & optatives
List of Drills |
| Monday, 10 May 2010 |
Phonological Rule in Spoken Persian
sentences:
final -e to -a: hame + shun = hamashun
List of Drills |
| Monday, 3 May 2010 |
Here, Come and Get It!
sentences:
"biā" meaning "Here, take this"
List of Drills |
| Monday, 26 April 2010 |
"balad" is also a noun meaning "guide"
sentences:
Lots of "balad-hā" and "nā-balad-hā"!
List of Drills |
| Monday, 19 April 2010 |
To Know How To Do
sentences
with "balad" + subjunctive verb
List of Drills |
| Monday, 12 April 2010 |
Have you collided with "bar-khord" yet?
sentences
with "bar-khord"
List of Drills |
| Monday, 5 April 2010 |
Sentences related to age and getting old:
to
be / become n years old
List of Drills |
| Monday, 29 March 2010 |
Another one grammar teacher neglected to mention:
The
Colloquial "taraf" Meaning "the guy"
List of Drills |
| Monday, 22 March 2010 |
Spotlight on a Useful Expression
che
be resad ke - x not to mention y
List of Drills |
| Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Infinitives Used As Nouns in Sentences
positive
infinitive
negative infinitive
List of Drills |
| Monday, 8 March 2010 |
Don't show these ones to your grammar teacher!
rā
marking an entire embedded clause
See Spoken and Written Styles Merge |
| Monday, 1 March 2010 |
Advanced Persian: rā after an entire ke clause
examples
with /ro/
examples with /o/
a feature of
Spoken/Colloquial style |
| Monday, 22 Feb 2010 |
The Sound `Ayn in Arabic vs Persian
Initial, Medial, Final `Ayn with Audio & Sound
Image
similar items in the
Drill Index |
| Monday, 15 Feb 2010 |
On the Occasion of 22 Bahman...
Phrases with Topical "Protest" Vocabulary
a list generated from
Protest-Themed Verbs |
| Monday, 8 Feb 2010 |
A wonderfully dynamic poem by Forugh Farrokhzād
Ma`shuq-e
Man = My Beloved
neatly
summarized in summation notation! |
| Monday, 1 Feb 2010 |
Ear Check: Stressed and Unstressed Final /-i/
Drag & Drop Audio Exercise
List Version
List of Drills |
| Monday, 25 Jan 2010 |
Standards-Compliant Persian Keyboard
Mac *
Windows
Type Persian Properly with
Pride! |
| Monday, 18 Jan 2010 |
A very sweet and easy children's story
I Found My White Rabbit
in the Spring - A.R. Ahmadi
With Armenian translation! |
| Monday, 11 Jan 2010 |
More Compensatory Lengthening: /h/ (he) Deletion in Spoken
Style
Drag & Drop Audio Exercise
List Version
List of Drills |
| Monday, 4 Jan 2010 |
More
`Āshurā 2009
Tehrān
Police Radio Communications
Extreme Persian for the ultra advanced levels! |
| Monday, 28 Dec 2009 |
`Āshurā 2009 on the streets of Tehrān
Irān-o
Kardi Karbalā
You have made Iran Karbala! |
| Monday, 21 Dec 2009 |
Compensatory Lengthening: `Ayn Deletion in Spoken
Style
Drag & Drop Audio Exercise
List Version
List of Drills |
| Monday, 14 Dec 2009 |
A tasnif from the Constitutional Era
Malek
o-Sho`arā Bahār's Morgh-e Sahar
Enjoy this orchestral rendition sung by Salar
Aghili |
| Monday, 7 Dec 2009 |
Audio Drills: Adjectives vs Adverbs
Spoken Style:
Drag & Drop
Translation
List of Drills |
| Monday, 30 Nov 2009 |
Audio Drills on The Yes-No Question Tag Āyā
Drag & Drop:
spoken set 1
written set 2
Listen and Translate:
spoken set 3
written set 4 |
| Monday, 23 Nov 2009 |
Example Sentences in the
Persian Verb Conjugator
āb shodan *
derow kardan *
āb raftan
see English definitions on the conjugation
pages |
| Monday, 16 Nov 2009 |
"Thematic Dictionary" capability
shopping *
office *
school
in the
Persian Verb Conjugator |
| Monday, 9 Nov 2009 |
The Productive -idan Suffix in Messaging Slang!
tighidan *
زنگیدن *
derāzidan *
لاغریدن
Save these for your Microblogging needs! |
| Monday, 2 Nov 2009 |
Persian Verb Conjugator
Persian Compound Verbs
Limit them! Sort them! |
| Monday, 26 Oct 2009 |
"Spoken" and "Written" Registers
Navigating up
Through the Registers
dore < dawre * fek < fekr
* qat < qat` |
| Monday, 19 Oct 2009 |
Verbs with "bar" in the Present Subjunctive:
bar gashtan:
written style
spoken style
Delete the subjunctive be-
prefix always! |
| Monday, 12 Oct 2009 |
A Day Hike out of Tehran
Shir-Palā in
the Alborz Range
Slideshow with Audio! |
| Monday, 5 Oct 2009 |
Adjectives used as Adverbs
Drag & Drop *
Translation
with Audio! |
| Monday, 28 Sept 2009 |
Harder Vocatives and Interjections
mabādā * vānafsā *
shāhanshāhā * ay darighā
Flashcards with Audio |
| Monday, 21 Sept 2009 |
The most difficult verb: To Be
Ast
or Hast? Exercise with Audio
Conjugation
of 'to be'
budan |
| Monday, 14 Sept 2009 |
Pronunciation of Words with Final Vāv
Audio
Drill with a Few Examples
/o/ /u/ /aw/ /v/ ?? |
| Monday, 7 Sept 2009 |
More Stress and Intonation
Calling out to a Person
Vocative Case |
| Monday, 31 Aug 2009 |
Impersonal Modals
one must ...
one can...
it is
possible to....
these require the "short infinitive" |
| Monday, 24 Aug 2009 |
You don't have to get a new
Windows Keyboard
to learn:
to join
Persian letters or
to
disjoin Persian letters
But it would be nice for you and for Persian! |
| Monday, 16 Aug 2009 |
While fonts have their uses, don't
neglect your
handwriting!
poem as sar-mashq
song as sar-mashq
Courtesy of Ostad Ilia Faghfouri |
| Monday, 9 Aug 2009 |
to let someone else... to allow
someone else to.....
The Verb
Gozāshtan with 2 Agents
I let him.... You don't
allow me..... |
| Monday, 3 Aug 2009 |
An easy pseudo-classical dialogue-style poem
Mast-o
Hoshyār by Parvin
E`tesāmi
Includes scansion exercises for `aruz
(poetic meter) |
| Mon, 27 July 2009 |
New Vocabulary: Ordinal Numbers (first, second,
third...)
Parts:
1
2
3
4
Beginner's
Special List Here |
| Mon, 20 July 2009 |
More Easy Modal Verbs with Audio!
Written
Style *
Spoken Style
can - want - must |
| Mon, 13 July 2009 |
More Color
Vocabulary!
Parts:
1
2
Beginner's
Special List Here |
| Mon, 6 July 2009 |
New Vocabulary: Adverbial Time Expressions
Parts:
1
2
3
Beginner's
Special List Here |
| Mon, 29 June 2009 |
A Surrealistic Children's Story
All Those Paper Boats
By Ahmad-Rezā Ahmadi |
| Mon, 22 June 2009 |
Easy Modal Verbs with Audio
Persian script *
Transcription
I want to ... She is unable to ... |
| 15 June 2009 |
Eavesdrop on the Grassroots Effort!
23 Khordād Iran Election
Response
High-tech coordination, Persian
style! |
| 1 June 2009 |
A Nice and Easy Song for Beginners
Sour and Sweet
Torsh-o Shirin
by
Mohsen Nāmjoo and Rezā Attārān |
| 15 May 2009 |
An Iranian Outraged by an Execution in Britain?!
The Hanging of Sir
Roger Casement
Jamālzāde in Kāve, dated August 1916 |
| 1 May 2009 |
from Morning News IRIB Channel 1
Weather Report from
March
Including tests on the Provinces of Iran |
| 15 Apr 2009 |
Persian New Year's Greetings!
President Obama
Speaks Persian!
Featuring tests on stressed & unstressed final -e(h) |
| 1 Apr 2009 |
Phrases for Everyday Situations
What are you doing?
Courtesy of IRIB aka "Sedā-o Simā" |
| 15 Mar 2009 |
Attention Dāsh Masti-hā!
Raise /e/ to /i/ before /k/ or /g/:
shikundan
شیکوندن
Announce the quality of your character! |
| 1 Mar 2009 |
New Vocabulary: Parts of the Body
Parts:
1
2
3
4
5
Beginner's
Special List Here |
| 15 Feb 2009 |
日本語とペルシャ語が向き合って
Qājār Intellectual Urges House-Cleaning on Japan Model
Tarbiyyat by Mohammad-Hosayn Forughi,
Zokā ol-Molk |
| 1 Feb 2009 |
Do you have a "raft-o umad" with colloquial
verbs?
raftan
* رفتن
* umadan
* اومدن
Written & Spoken Verb
Conjugator and
practice tests |
| 15 Jan 2009 |
Are you a ...
Bachche-Susul ??
Lots of accompanying exercises and good stuff ! |
| Jan 2009 |
Stressed Out about Stress in Spoken Persian?
Present Perfect Statement
vs Question Intonation
Requires a good musical ear ! |
| Dec 2008 |
Advanced Handwriting Recognition
Disjoin
Frequently Occurring Two-Letter Blocks
For Windows, Mac and Linux
|
| Nov 2008 |
Present Tense Verbs, one-at-a-time
Basic Verb Conjugation
Tests
Fill in missing letters, translation,
multiple-choice
|
| Oct 2008 |
Fun for the Persian Classroom!
Simon Says
We changed
Simon Says to
Mehrān Mige |
| July 2008 |
Chris de Burgh and Arian
The Words 'I Love You'
First Western - Iranian Act Permitted Since 1979
|
| June 2008 |
What time is it in Persian?
Time on the Hour
Quarter Past
Half Past
Quarter To
with audio * knowledge
of Persian script not required
|
| May 2008 |
What is tanvin ?
Easy
Medium
Hard
Practice the Tanvin ! |
| April 2008 |
Sohrab Sepehri's autobiographical masterpiece
Sound of the Footsteps of Water
Sedā-ye Pā-ye Āb |
| 5 March 2008 |
University of Texas on Voice of America
Segment
from VOA Persian
Election Coverage |
| March 2008 |
porteqāl
nārenj nārangi
Apples,
Oranges, Melons and Berries
May your Persian Studies be extremely samar-bakhsh! |
| Feb 2008 |
جستن
jastan or jostan ??
Know
Your Homographs
رفتن
raftan or roftan ?? |
| Jan 2008 |
Warning:
Extreme Persian!
Advanced Users Only!
Masoud Behnoud Interviews
Ibrahim Golestan
The BBC interview analyzed and deconstructed
|
| Dec 2007 |
Remedial Math! Arithmetic Tests!
Practice with Persian Numerals
or
Practice
with Audio Prompt |
| Oct 2007 |
Souvenir from Tehrangeles
How to Warm Your
Hands
A Cute Turn of
Phrase in the Gilaki Dialect |
| Sept 2007 |
A l p h a b e t P r a c t i c e
Joining and Disjoining Persian Letters
Test yourself |
| August 2007 |
Poem by a 15th-century Judeo-Persian mystic
Sāqināmeh by 'Emrāni
of Isfahān
Persian written
in Hebrew script |
| July 2007 |
Need to Conjugate a
Persian Verb?
Persian Verb Conjugator ||
Test Yourself
in Persian
script and Transcription |
| June 2007 |
We'll sure miss Mehdi!
Farewell Message from
Mehdi
Our Fulbright Scholar from
Iran |
| Jan 2007 |
Welcome to Spring Semester
Syllabus and
Course Home Page
First Year Persian |
| Dec 2006 |
Film Footage from the
1st-Year Persian Class
Album
of Memories
Our Pride and Joy! |
| August 2006 |
Welcome Students!
Syllabus and
Course Home Page
First Year Persian |
| July 2006 |
According to some,
the
most important poem
in modern Persian literature:
Another Birth by
Forugh Farrokhzād |
| June 2006 |
Poetry
by Sohrab Sepehri
In the Tar of Night
A Gift from Farhad Arbab
of Leiden University |
| May 2006 |
C r i t i c
s' C h o i c e ! H o t N e w T a l e n t !
Student
Compositions
For Your Summer Reading Pleasure |
| April 2006 |
Writing a Letter in Persian
Video Presentation
For Best
Results,
First, Right Click on Link and Save to your Desktop |
| March 2006 |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CELEBRATES IRANIAN DOCUMENTARY FILMS
March 22 - May 3
Press Release |
| Jan 2006 |
Pioneering moments in Perso-Arabic typography
Mim-esis
We are
honored by a personal account by Thomas Milo |
| Jan 2006 |
Everyone's favorite Hāfez
I saw the blue-green field of
heaven
Read by Hossein Samei,
Emory University |
| 16 Jan 2006 |
1st-year Persian students:
To which of our 3 classrooms
should you report on the first day of Spring Semester?
This shocking video
reveals all |
| Dec 2005 |
Prepare to be entertained as you've never been
entertained before:
The
First-Year Persian Students' Weblog
|
| 11 Nov 2005 |
In town to deliver
a
lecture
Hamid Naficy
records a guest
dictation assignment
(also see:
answer key)
much to the delight of the 1st-year Persian students! |
| Oct, 2005 |
Good Thoughts * Good Words *
Good Deeds
A very special donation from Seattle-based
musician & educator, Khodadad Kaviani:
Rāh-e Zartosht
and 5 other songs from the popular
CD Ancient Whispers celebrating the customs and
festivals of ancient
Iran. |
| 16 Oct 2005 |
All of you missing your beloved instructor, Behrad
Aghaei who has gone on to bigger & better things at Univ
of Michigan this year, will be happy to know he misses
you too and has prepared a little something for you:
Sara
Sara speaks Persian almost as fast as Behrad! |
| 14 Oct 2005 |
Students,
hungry for a little Esfahan Persian?
Bāqalā Polaw
Don't forget you're all invited to Professor Ghanoonparvar's house for dinner tomorrow night, 6 pm! |
| Oct, 2005 |
A most generous donation from
Professor Manoucher Kasheff of Columbia University:
The Dibāche of the Golestān of Sa`di
Dedicated to the memory of Firoozeh Khazrai |
| 24 September 2005 |
Hurricane Rita Hits Texas
Off the Wire from IRNA |
| Sept, 2005 |
A Very Warm Welcome to the Students of 1st Year
Persian
Class Page and Syllabus
We hope this is the start of a long and fulfilling
journey! |
| August, 2005 |
Featured
Item of the Month
Were you thinking Persian is limited to Tehran
Persian?
Turkish Delights
Check out the linguistic sophistication of these
jokes donated by a well-wisher from Azerbaijan with a
wonderful sense of humor! |
| July, 2005 |
Featured
Item of the Month
Which of Hāfez' poems is inscribed on his tombstone?
You're going to like this one! Thanks very much to
the History Dept, Shiraz Univ whose intrepid camera man
has provided the special shots of the tombstone and
extra special thanks to Prof. Hossein Samei of Emory
Univ. who has beautifully recorded the poem in two
styles. |
| June, 2005 |
Featured
Item of the Month
The
Hunter-Student
See what Alex in the Intermediate Persian Class put
together for you! It took him the entire Spring
Semester and all his hard work is greatly appreciated!
Blessings and thanks upon his father, too, who was kind
enough to read it into an mp3 recorder. Enjoy that on
your iPod!!
|
| April 30, 2005 |
The students of Persian 361
welcomed
Tara Bahrampour (The Washington Post), Anne Betteridge
(University of Arizona), Zjaleh Hajibashi (University of
Virginia), Persis Karim (San Jose State
University)
Abbas Milani (Stanford University), Nasrin Rahimieh
(McMaster University), Farhang Rajaee (Carlton
University Faridoun Farrokh (Texas A&M International
University)
Program
Photo
Video
"Iranian Identity: Questions and
Challenges"
A Symposium
Saturday, 30 April 2005
|
| Dec, 2004 |
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