Farsi

Iran & Farsi (Persian)

This is a collection of useful ressources which help to understand the persian/iranian culture and language. All of the links and software programs can be accessed or downloaded for free. The first chapters comprise resources for learning the persian language named Farsi. The middle part focuses on information about the country, culture, cooking etc. Following, media links give access to persian webradios and selected MP3 with lyrics. Finally, some interesting software gadgets are indtroduced which may in help learning the persian language.

Learning Farsi

Overview of Farsi Tenses (DOC) Verb Descriptions and Tense Formations in brief. Click to download this overview by Semberlyn Crossly.

Transkription (PDF) Transcription of arabic-persian alphabet

ModernPersian.com The best source for learning Farsi!

Persian for Beginners A complete book including an audio file by Iraj Bashiri can be downloaded for free as 6 individual PDFs! Lessons 1-5 introduce to meaning and grammar, lessons 6-8 deal with action verbs and lessons 9-15 are dealing with grammar.

Royaa: Farsi Lessons

EasyPersian A very comprehensive free online Farsi course by Hassan. Access to all 138 course units is on the top-right of the window. My favourites are listed below in the next listing below.

Persian Cool Phrases 1-15

Persian Cool Phrases 16-31

Alefba Illustrated Persian Alphabet with Songs for Children

Teachionary: Farsi Word Sets like ‘Animals’, ‘Body Parts’, ‘Cooking utensils’ etc. unfortunately only covering not more than 10 words for each category.

Iranische Sprichwoerter – Wikiquote

Farsi Stemmer (PDF)
In this paper, Taghva et al. report on the design and implementation of a stemmer for the
Farsi language. The results of our evaluation on a small Farsi document collection
shows a signiÍcant improvement in precision/recall.

Intonation in Farsi (PDF) This paper compares intonation of spoken Farsi and English

UCLA Language Materials Project

Easy Persian: My favourite Courses

EP Useful Phrases and Sentences

EP_94 introduces Persian melody

EP_100 some slang and expressions useful in daily conversation

EP_124 Measure / units

EP_128 Measures and Units in Persian – Part 2

EP_132 Persian daily conversation phrases

EP_133 Persian slang / daily conversation phrases – Part 2

EP_137 – How to use two verbs (go, ask)?

Easy Persian: Learning Farsi with Stories

EP_105 YAHYAA

EP_117 Frogs

EP_130 – Translation from English into Persian – Part 2

EP_140 a perian alegorical story – Kelileh vo Demneh – introduction

UZH Orientalisches Seminar Persische Texte von Hamid Hosravi

Dictionaries: Farsi-English, English-Farsi

Aryanpour Persian Online Dictionary

Loghatnameh: German-Farsi Farsi-German

English/Persian Colloquial Dictionary

Motarjem e Farsi: Translation between Farsi, German and English

Farsidic.com

Online English – Persian Dictionary

Pars Translator – Online Translation

Medialog Lexikon deutsch-farsi

Information and News about Iran and Farsi

Worldwide Repository of the Best Persian and Iranian WebSites

Anvari.org

YouTube movie about the Persian Empire (8 minutes)

Farsi: Background on Persian Language

www.shahian.deShahian gives tells as his very interesting point of views on important iranian topics in German.

BBCPersian.com: News in Farsi

Blog | DW-WORLD

Persian Cooking

Amazon: New Food of life

Nemooneh BakeryNemooneh Bakery explains and illustrates different iranian pastries, sweets, ice-cream, faloudeh, Bastani

Persian Events and Communities in Germany

Rheinmainpersia

Iran-Now Network – Magazin

Persian Partys in Germany

Planet-Persia.de – Whats up in Germany (Forum)

Persian Forum: paukerin.com

Iran Plus

Persian Poetry

Liebesgedichte aus dem Orient – lirix.deFive Chapters of love poems in German

RumiOnFire.comTranslation of Rumi Poetry: Divan-e Shams, Mathnavi

A Persian poem by Hafez. Translation: Hassan H. (EasyPersian)

Persian Literature online (EasyPersian)

Persian Web Radio

RadioFarda.com Radio Farda is a Persian language radio station based in Prague and Washington and is supported by the U.S. government. The name ‘Farda’ means ‘tomorrow’ in Persian. Radio Farda’s website has been blocked by Iranian government. The Radio Farda site is also available in English

Iranian Radio Different Web Radios: Persian Pop, Dance Party, Traditional, Eshge Iran, Kurdish

Radio Barabari

Deutsche Welle: DW-Radio

Easy Persian: Songs and Lyrics

Persian Traditional – Classical – Transcendental music introduction page

Gol e Yakh By Koroush Yaghmaee / Yaghmaei

Sal _e_ do hezar (or) saal _e_ do hezaar (The year 2000 – BY: Dariush)

taraneh: eshgh e man mano seda kon By: Moein (Moin)

Bezan Baran

Ghatreh baran – Drop of rain, a Persian music Pouya

Imagine! By: Siavash Ghomeishi

Gol e Yakh By Koroush Yaghmaee / Yaghmaei

Shab e mard e tanha by: Ebi (Downloadable – with English translation)

Hezar _o_ yek shab _ e_ man, By: Shadmehr Aghili

Farda To Miyaee – BY: Houshmand Aghili

Persian poetry (MP3) with English translation – Ahmad Shamlu reads a poem of Hafez

My love – By: Farzin

Ebi – Peechak (Ivy)

beh bachehamoon – BY: Dariush in MP3

Persian lullaby song in mp3 for your child

Software for Learning Farsi

Persian Verbs Conjugator

The PVC is a simple though useful software provides you all persian tenses for a given infinitive. Unfortunately, it only shows you the transliteration thus omitting the persian alphabet. Download PVC (ZIP, 24 KB) here!

Fars Edit

In Fars Edit you can type your Farsi words and export it with one click to Microsoft word or to other text processors. Input is via a virtual keyboard.

Arabica

Arabica is a software plug-in for Microsoft Word allowing you to write Arabic, Farsi and Dari. In particular it supports right-to-left writing and switching back and from left-to-right Western style writing.

DorNegar English-Farsi Dictionary

English-Farsi dictionary software. than 60,000 English words. You can download this software for free. The interface is quite simple. Download DorNegar here!