Pimsleur Conversational Farsi (Persian) - 8 Audio CDs
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This Basic program contains 5 hours of audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.
HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT
The pimsleur language education procedure is a language remembering manner designed by Dr Pimsleur. The approach is supported on a few chief themes : anticipation, graduated time recall, core vocabulary, and natural knowledge. Pimsleur system is an audiobook approach, in which the listener builds sentences or repeats from memory along with a section of audio. Language programs frequently require a student to say again after an teacher, which Pimsleur stated was a passive technique of studing. Dr pimsleur developed a "problem and retort" practice, where a learner was prompted to transform a saying into the target language, which was then established. This practice creates a more energetic way of learning, forcing the student to think before replying. Dr paul pimsleur believed the principle of anticipation reflected real speech in that a orator should remember a saying quickly.
Graduated interval memory is a way of reviewing acquired vocabulary at increasing extended intervals. It is a rendering of retention by way of spaced repetition. For instance, if a student learns the word deux French for two, then deux is tested every few seconds in the beginning, then each few minutes, then every few hours, and then every few days. The target of this spaced recollection is to be of assistance the student change vocabulary into long-term recall. The program uses an audio format because Pimsleur argued that the greater part of students wanted first and foremost to gain knowledge of to converse and understand. This audio proficiency, learnt through their ears and mouths, is a especially different ability to the visual one of reading and writing. Pimsleur argued that these two independent skills - audition and vision - should not be confused. He referred to his auditory system as "organic learning," which entails studying grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation simultaneously.
About Farsi (Persian)
Farsi is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan and has official-language status in these three countries.
Persian has been a medium for literary and scientific contributions to the Islamic world as well as the Western. It has had an influence on certain neighbouring languages, particularly the Turkic languages of Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia as well as Urdu, Hindi, and other Indian languages. It has had a lesser influence on Arabic and other languages of Mesopotamia.
Evidence of Persian's historical influence there can be seen in the extent of its influence on the languages of the Indian subcontinent, as well as the popularity that Persian literature still enjoys in that region.For five centuries prior to the British colonization, Persian was widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in South Asia and became the "official language" under the Mughal emperors. Only in 1843 did the subcontinent begin conducting business in English.
Persian belongs to the Western group of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, and is of the Subject Object Verb type. The language is in the Southwestern Iranian group, along with and very similar to the Larestani and Luri languages.The Western Iranian group contains other related languages such as Kurdish and Baluchi.
The international language encoding standard ISO 639-1 uses the code "fa", as its coding system is based on the local names. The more detailed draft ISO 639-3 uses the name "Persian" (code "fas") for the larger unit ("macrolanguage") spoken across Iran and Afghanistan, but "Eastern Farsi" and "Western Farsi" for two of its subdivisions (roughly coinciding with the varieties in Afghanistan and those in Iran, respectively). Ethnologue, in turn, includes "Farsi, Eastern" and "Farsi, Western" as two separate entries and lists "Persian" and "Parsi" as alternative names for each, besides "Irani" for the western and "Dari" for the eastern form.
Persian, the more widely used name of the language in English, is an Anglicized form derived from Latin, a Hellenized form of Old Persian Parsa. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term Persian seems to have been first used in English in the mid-16th century. Native Persian speakers call it "Fārsi" (local name) or Parsi. Farsi is the arabicized form of Parsi, due to a lack of the /p/ phoneme in Standard Arabic. In English this language is historically known as "Persian". Some Persian-speakers migrating to the West (particularly to the USA) continued to use "Farsi" to identify their language in English and the word gained some currency in English-speaking countries. "Farsi" is encountered in some linguistic literature as a name for the language, used both by Iranian and by foreign authors. However, The Academy of Persian Language and Literature has declared in an official pronouncement that the name "Persian" is more appropriate, as it has the longer tradition in the western languages and better expresses the role of the language as a mark of cultural and national continuity. Some Persian language scholars also have rejected the usage of "Farsi" in their articles.
A similar terminology, but with even more subdivisions, is also adopted by the LINGUIST List, where "Persian" appears as a subgrouping under "Southwest Western Iranian". Currently, VOA, BBC, DW, and RFE/RL use "Persian Service" for their broadcasts in the language. RFE/RL also includes a Tajik service, and Afghan (Dari) service. This is also the case for the American Association of Teachers of Persian, The Centre for Promotion of Persian Language and Literature, and many of the leading scholars of Persian language.
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