Description

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Persian in Use is an elementary Persian language and culture textbook designed for first-year language students at a university level and specifically focused on teaching contemporary Persian as it is actually used. With its colorful and lively design, the textbook offers an integrative approach combining new vocabulary summarized thematically and lexically, interactive dialogues, straightforward explanations of grammatical features, engaging classroom and homework exercises, and samples of literary and popular writings.

About the Author

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Anousha Sedighi is associate professor of Persian and the coordinator of the Persian program at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

Praise For…

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"With a steady stream of relevant dialogues, a series of pithy passages of reading material, glimpses of Persian culture and literature, and plenty of engaging exercises, all creatively conceptualized and methodically presented, Persian in Use is bound to find a prominent place in the increasingly professionalized field of Persian language pedagogy."
— Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Maryland

"To be forthright, teaching Persian as a second language is still far from an established field. Sedighi's Persian in Use with its fresh approach, tasteful design, and engaging methodology is a welcome publication in response to this perpetual need. The book indeed is designed to improve students' language and cultural fluency, delightfully and systematically."
— Kamran Talattof, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona