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Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation
by Shaykh Hasan
This volume is primarily intended to supply a working and practical knowledge of the Persian language, for the benefit of those who have not the time or the inclination to master the grammar, and yet require to use the spoken tongue for purposes of business or pleasure. With this object in view it supplies many vocabularies of words carefully selected to suit the needs of those holding communication with Persia and the Persians, classified according to subject, and a large number of colloquial phrases and sentences of a practical character, similarly classified… This work thus forms a useful and valuable handbook of Persian for tourists and travellers, commercial men, naval and military officers, students and others. We may add that the Persian language is very sweet, and compared with other languages it is easy to master. It has a complete literature of its own. It is not spoken in Persia alone, but in Afghanistan and many parts of India, and is the official language of some of the courts of that country. It is also used in Turkish Arabia (Baghdad), and by educated people in Russian Turkestan. (Summary from the Preface, by Shaykh Hasan)
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Total running time: 8:39:57
Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
In addition to the reader, this audio book was produced by:
Dedicated Proof-Listener: hefyd
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Karen Merline
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- 00 – Preface – 00:03:01
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[ogg vorbis - 2.21MB] - 01 – The Alphabet and Pronunciation: The Alphabet, The Persi-Arabic Characters, Remarks on the Alphabet, The Romanized Characters, with Phonetic Pronunciation, Preliminary Notes – 00:11:51
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[ogg vorbis - 8.00MB] - 02 – [Vocabularies]: (1) The World and its Elements; (2) Land and Water; (3) Minerals and Metals; (4) Animals, Birds and Fishes; (4) Insects and Reptiles; (5) Flowers, Fruits, Trees and Vegetables – 00:33:10
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[ogg vorbis - 21MB] - 03 – [Vocabularies]: (6) Colours; (7) Times and Seasons; (8) Town and Country; (9) Mankind; Relations; (10) The Human Body – 00:31:54
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[ogg vorbis - 21MB] - 04 – [Vocabularies]: (11) Health; (12) Food, Drink and Smoking; (12) Cooking and Eating Utensils; (13) Dress and Dressing; (14) Washing List; (15) House and Furniture – 00:40:24
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[ogg vorbis - 27MB] - 05 – [Vocabularies]: (16) Professions, Trades, etc.; (17) Travelling by Land; (18) Travelling by Sea; (19) Commercial and Trading Terms; (20) Correspondence; (21) Post-office, Telegraph and Telephone – 00:48:02
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[ogg vorbis - 32MB] - 06 – [Vocabularies]: (22) Cardinal Numbers; (23) Ordinal Numbers; (24) Collective and Fractional Numbers – 00:19:38
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[ogg vorbis - 13MB] - 07 – [Vocabularies]: (25) Adjectives – 00:24:10
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[ogg vorbis - 15MB] - 08 – [Vocabularies]: (26) Verbs – 00:30:27
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[ogg vorbis - 20MB] - 09 – [Vocabularies]: (27) Adverbs, Conjunctions, Prepositions, etc. – 00:22:21
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[ogg vorbis - 14MB] - 10 – [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (1) The Noun – 00:03:35
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[ogg vorbis - 2.36MB] - 11 – [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (2) The Iz?fat (denotes possession); (3) Adjectives – 00:06:48
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[ogg vorbis - 4.50MB] - 12 – [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (4) Personal Pronouns; (5) Possessive Pronouns; (6) Relative Pronouns; (7) Interrogative Pronouns – 00:11:05
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[ogg vorbis - 7.09MB] - 13 – [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (8) The Verb – 00:23:53
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[ogg vorbis - 4.08MB] - 15 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (1) Useful and Necessary Idiomatic Expressions – 00:27:32
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[ogg vorbis - 18MB] - 16 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (2) Expressions of Emotion, etc. – 00:07:25
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[ogg vorbis - 4.77MB] - 17 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (3) Enquiries – 00:05:24
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[ogg vorbis - 3.51MB] - 18 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (4) The Railway – 00:12:52
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[ogg vorbis - 8.69MB] - 19 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (5) The Steamboat – 00:07:59
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[ogg vorbis - 5.16MB] - 20 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (6) Arrival – 00:04:32
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[ogg vorbis - 2.97MB] - 21 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (7) The Hotel – 00:21:34
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[ogg vorbis - 13MB] - 23 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (9) Health – 00:08:42
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[ogg vorbis - 5.62MB] - 24 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (10) The Time – 00:04:47
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[ogg vorbis - 3.10MB] - 25 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (11) Correspondance, Post, Telegrams, etc. – 00:11:29
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[ogg vorbis - 7.54MB] - 26 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (12) Notices – 00:05:31
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[ogg vorbis - 3.47MB] - 27 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (13) In Town – 00:15:43
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[ogg vorbis - 10MB] - 28 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (14) Shopping – 00:13:48
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[ogg vorbis - 9.14MB] - 29 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (15) Commercial and Trading – 00:18:34
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[ogg vorbis - 12MB] - 30 – [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (16) Money-Changing – 00:07:30
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[ogg vorbis - 5.02MB] - 31 – The Lord’s Prayer in Romanized Persian, with literal translation – 00:04:07
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[ogg vorbis - 2.76MB] - 32 – Money: Persian Coins, Equivalent Values: English, American and Persian, Weights and Measures, Postal Charges – 00:06:09
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Cataloged on November 12, 2009













