This page contains videos with links to transcription, translation and flashcards to learn the vocabulary in each video.
Title File Features Level Posted Transcription, Translation and Vocabulary Format/Size Source
Meet the President VIDEO

TEXT

  Hard 18 Jan 2005  

 

.mov

Originally broadcast 6 December 2004

Used with the kind permission of MEMRI

Who's at the Door? VIDEO

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Greetings.

Complete transcription provided 

Easy 4 Apr 2005 Transcription:  Farkhondeh Shayesteh .wmv IRIB
Tiger VIDEO

TEXT  

Evidently original was not Persian Easy 6 Apr 2005 Transcription:  Farkhondeh Shayesteh .wmv IRIB
Meet Houshang Moradi-Kermani 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 Some Kerman dialect Hard Aug-Sept 2005 Zahra, Tehran

Mehran Haddadi

 

.mov  
The Chain VIDEO

VOCAB

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Farhang Rajaee recounts a humorous anecdote Med 9 Aug 2005 Transcription:  Navid Hayeri .wmv

1.58 MB

 
Living Will VIDEO

VOCAB

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Lessons learned from Terri Schiavo

-e meaning "the"

"let me..." 
Med 25 Sept 2005   .wmv
2.35 MB
used with the kind permission of iranian.com
Bāqalā Polaw VIDEO
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

VOCAB

TEXT
Cooking show

Esfahan dialect

Hard 13 Oct 2005   .mov  
Sara VIDEO

VOCAB

TEXT 
contemporary, Tehran, younger generation style Hard 16 Oct 2005 Behrad Aghaei,

Univ of Michigan

.wmv

62 KB

BBC Persian
Office Gets Facelift VIDEO

VOCAB

TEXT 
Faegheh Shirazi decides to paint her office Med 25 Oct 2005   .wmv  
PRS 507 Map VIDEO

VOCAB

TEXT & Quizzes
1st-year Persian has 3 classrooms Spring Semester. Which one should you go to on the first day?
Following along the map
Med 11 Jan 2006 Shiva Pejmanaryan, UT (Recording)
Faegheh Shirazi, UT
Behrad Aghaei, Univ of Mich (exercises)
.wmv  
ESB 133 VIDEO

VOCAB

TEXT & Quizzes
Directions to our classroom in Experimental Biology Bldg, Rm. 133 Med 1 Feb 2006 Sayona & Ramona .wmv  
Bye Mehdi VIDEO

VOCAB

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Farewell message by our Fulbright Scholar from Iran  Med   15 May 2007 Mehdi Torabian .wmv  
Hand Warming Wind VIDEO

VOCAB

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A cute saying in the Gilaki dialect of Persian picked up in Tehrangeles Hard 13 Oct 2007   .wmv

5.5 MB

Mr Beykzadeh, Pars Books, Westwood, Los Angeles
Ibrahim Golestan Interviewed by Masoud Behnoud for BBC
VIDEO

VOCAB

TEXT
1 2 3
Only suitable for advanced students Hard 1 Jan 2008 Behrad Aghaei,

Univ of Michigan

+ many others

.wmv Watch this video from the BBC site
VOA report from UT on elections VIDEO

VOCAB

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Featuring opinion on elections from Prof Ghanoonparvar, Nastaran Kherad and James Clark Med 5 Mar 2008   .wmv This was on the News and Views program of VOA
Chekār dāri mikoni VIDEO

EXERCISES

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Greetings. Che khabar, salāmati. Present Progressive Tense. Present Perfect (stress in this tense as Spoken.) Easy 1 Apr 2009 Thanks to Behnam Esfahbod and Mohsen Emadi, Tehran .wmv from, Mesl-e Har Kas
IRIB, Channel 2
31-6-1387 
President Obama's Nowruz Greetings VIDEO

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Nawruz Persian New Year's Greetings. Final -e(h) stressed and unstressed Easy 15 Apr 2009   .wmv White House site
Weather In March
 Morning News
 
VIDEO

EXERCISES

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rain, showers, high and low temp; superlatives, days, months; hist. dates; Provinces & capitals; Hormozgān Med 1 May 2009 Thanks to Maryam Amiri, Tehran; Saber Soleimani, Tehran .wmv IRIB 1
7 Farvardin 1388
Irān-o kardi Karbalā VIDEO

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cultural literacy Easy 28 Dec 2009   .wmv youtube version