Title |
File |
Feature |
Grammar points |
Text Level |
Posted |
Author |
Featured Contributors |
Notes |
| Credit is Dead |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
Humorous poster seen in Tehran shops |
|
Med |
31 Dec 2004 |
|
Hossein Samei (Emory University) |
|
| The Chair |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT
|
|
|
Med |
10 Jan 2005 |
Mohammad-Ali Abtahi |
Farkhondeh Shayesteh; Flashcards by Doron
Modan, Hebrew Univ. |
webneveshteha |
| Surplus Cows |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT
|
Auction announcement |
|
Med |
3 Feb 2005 |
|
Fattaneh Naeymi-Rad (Duke University) |
|
| Gas Heater Culture |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT
|
Reported news |
|
Med |
6 Feb 2005 |
Abbās Fattāhzāde |
Iago Gocheleishvili (University of Montana -
Missoula) |
6 Feb 2005
|
| The Hunter-Student |
AUDIO
VOCAB
1,
2,
3
TEXT
1, 2, 3 |
From the Kalila and Dimna stories |
|
Med |
Mar 2005 |
MehdiAzar Yazdi |
Sohrab Tafreshi |
Text taken from pp. 9-16 of
this book.
Story
prepared by Alex Tafreshi, student of 2nd-yr Persian,
UT |
| AAT and Open Type Font Technology |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
Current issue in Persian font world |
computer jargon |
Med |
23 May 2005 |
Behnam |
Farkhondeh Shayesteh |
IRMUG |
| The Pen (no audio yet) |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT
1,
2,
3 |
Parallel text in Iran style:
1,
2,
3 |
Comparison of Persian of Iran and Persian of
Afghanistan |
Med |
14 Aug 2005 |
`Azam Rahnaward Zaryab |
|
|
| Rita |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
News item on Hurricane Rita hitting Texas |
|
Med |
25 Sept 2005 |
|
|
IRNA |
| Reverse Gear |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
Back of a truck decoration |
|
Easy |
22 Oct 2005 |
|
Faegheh Shirazi |
iranian.com and
tehran24.com |
| Mim-esis |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
Personal account by
smart font pioneer Thomas Milo |
(original in English) |
Med |
2 Feb 2006 |
Thomas Milo |
M.R. Ghanoonparvar |
|
| gmail or email? Sharif
Dorm Notice |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
A
notice seen in the Sharif Univ dorm, officialese complete with
typos! |
|
Med |
21 Dec 2007 |
|
|
|
| Car Alarm |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
Someone's car alarm going off seems to
have driven the neighbors crazy |
|
Easy |
10 Jan 2008 |
|
|
|
| Provocative Clothing |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
A sign warning women to mind their dress;
nasta`liq points of interest |
|
Med |
17 Feb 2008 |
|
|
|
| Kashf-e Asrār |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
Ayatollah Khomeini's
thoughts on Reza Khan's Persian! |
He havvaz and He
hotti; the word ma`āref meaning ahl-e `elm;
lāken |
Hard |
5 Mar 2008 |
Ruhollah Khomeini |
Behrad Aghaei, Univ of
Michigan |
original scanned page
201 from the book, Kashf-e Asrār |
| Bachche-Susul |
AUDIO
VOCAB
TEXT |
help-wanted ads; Iran blog emoticons;
phones; dokhtar-susul |
"need" expressions: niyāz, lāzem; niyāzmand |
Easy |
15 Jan 2009 |
From a shop window in Tehran |
Maryam Amiri, Tehran; Saber Soleimani, Tehran |
blog story "City
of Angels" (Hard Exercises) used with the kind
permission of the author. |
| "Zhāpon" in Tarbiyyat, Zokā ol-Molk |
VOCAB
TEXT |
Qājār Intellectual Urges House-Cleaning on
Japan Model |
Qājār-era typography; Japanese translation
provided |
Hard |
15 Feb 2009 |
|
Behrad Aghaei, Univ of
Michigan (audio) |
|
| Hanging of Sir Roger Casement |
AUDIO
EXERCISES
TEXT |
Mohammad-Ali Jamālzāde
Kāve, 15 Aug 1916 |
Kāve quality attention to detail, typesetting
and Persian |
Hard |
15 May 2009 |
|
Mansour Bonakdarian U of Toronto;
Hashem Hakimi,
Oslo |
|
| 23 Khordād |
AUDIO
EXERCISES
TEXT |
Where is My Vote?
Grassroots communications Persian style! |
Tech-savvy discource |
Med |
15 June 2009 |
khas-o khāshāk |
|
|
| All Those Paper Boats |
AUDIO
EXERCISES
TEXT |
Surrealistic Children's
story by Ahmad-Rezā Ahmadi |
ordinals, colors, sea/shore, boats Nawruz; neshin
(present stem base) |
Easy |
29 June 2009 |
Ahmadi, Ahmad-Rezā |
English Translation by Mehdi Torabian |
Kanun-e Kudakān &
Hosseiniyeh Ershād, Tehran.
Audio by Maryam Badri,
Tehran |
| I Found My White Rabbit in
the Spring |
AUDIO
EXERCISES
TEXT |
Children's story by Ahmad-Rezā Ahmadi
including Armenian translation |
colors, seasons |
Easy |
18 Jan 2010 |
Ahmadi, Ahmad-Rezā |
English Translation by Mehdi Torabian |
Armenian audio by Hrach
Martirosyan, Leiden Univ & Univ of Michigan. Thanks to
Phillip Cameron, Language Resource Center, U of Michigan |
