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Farsi Complete Course A Step-by-Step Guide and a New Easy-to-Learn Format (Intermediate)
Farsi Complete Course: Intermediate is Book 2 of the three-level course. Its 10 chapters cover invitations, weather, visiting the doctor, sports, the hair salon, transportation, shopping, daily activities, addresses and requests. Grammar moves on to participles, the present perfect, comparatives, conditionals, the passive and polite verbs, and readings on Iran, Nowruz and Isfahan come with true-or-false questions. Answers and a glossary close it. 208-page PDF by Reza Nazari and Somayeh Nazari.
Move from textbook sentences to the Persian people speak every day
After a beginner course you can read simple sentences, but real conversations use shortened forms and more tenses. Book 2 of Farsi Complete Course builds on Book 1 with ten new situations, from inviting a friend to the cinema to asking for an address, and adds the grammar intermediate learners need: the present perfect, conditional sentences and the passive voice.
Unlike Book 1, this volume is written almost entirely in Persian, with only some vowel marks and no transliteration in the lessons. Each chapter opens with key sentences (در یک نگاه, at a glance), then alternates dialogues, speaking-and-writing boxes such as بریم (berim) for برویم (beravim, let’s go), grammar with exercises, and short readings.
At a glance
What Book 2 adds
Book 2 assumes you read Persian script and know the basic tenses from Book 1.
Ten new situations
Invitations, weather, a doctor’s visit, sports, the hair salon, transportation, shopping, daily routines, addresses and making requests.
Spoken forms
After each dialogue, a box sets colloquial words beside written ones, such as کدوم (kodum) and کدام (kodâm), which.
Intermediate grammar
Participles, the present perfect and its negative, comparatives and superlatives such as بهترین (behtarin, best), conditions with اگر (agar), question tags with مگه نه (mage na) and the passive in several tenses.
Word building and register
Ordinal numbers, prefixes and suffixes such as بی (bi-) and گر (-gar), words like هر and بعضی, and polite verbs such as تشریف آوردن (tashrif âvardan).
Readings about Iran
Short texts on the Persian language, Iran’s geography, Nowruz, Yalda night, Isfahan and the Chehel Sotoun palace, each followed by true-or-false questions.
Answers and glossary
An answer key (پاسخ‌نامه) from page 161 and a glossary (واژگان) from page 169.
From chapter 1: spoken and written forms
Chapter 1, Invitations (دعوت کردن), lists the spoken words from its dialogues next to their written forms:
| Spoken | Written | Pronunciation (spoken) | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| بریم | برویم | berim | let’s go |
| می‌تونیم | می‌توانیم | mitunim | we can |
| اونجا | آنجا | unjâ | there |
| کدوم | کدام | kodum | which |
| دیره | دیر است | dire | it’s late |
The free guide to spoken vs written Persian explains the patterns behind these changes.
Contents
Chapter titles are in Persian in the book:
- 1 Invitations (دعوت کردن), page 10
- 2 Weather (آب و هوا), page 26
- 3 Visiting the doctor (مراجعه به پزشک), page 42
- 4 Sports (ورزش), page 58
- 5 Hair salon (آرایشگاه), page 74
- 6 Transportation (حمل و نقل), page 90
- 7 Shopping (خرید کردن), page 105
- 8 Daily activities (فعالیت‌های روزانه), page 120
- 9 Addresses (آدرس), page 134
- 10 Requests (درخواست), page 148
- Answer key (پاسخ‌نامه), page 161, and glossary (واژگان), page 169
How to study with this book
- Read each dialogue aloud, then rewrite it in written Persian with the help of the speaking-and-writing box.
- Look up new words in the glossary and keep your own list for each chapter.
- Do the grammar exercises in writing and check them in the answer key.
- Answer the true-or-false questions after each reading without looking back at the text.
- Read more short texts in the free Farsi reading lessons.
Who this book is for
A good fit if you
- have finished Book 1 or another beginner course and read Persian script comfortably
- want to understand colloquial speech and still write correctly
- are ready for the present perfect, the passive and conditionals
- enjoy short readings about Iranian places and customs
Look elsewhere if you
- still need transliteration or are learning the alphabet; start with Book 1, For Beginners
- want longer texts, proverbs and topics such as emergencies and art; go on to Book 3, Advanced
Use it with
- Farsi Grammar in Use: For Intermediate Students: fuller explanations of the tenses this book introduces.
- Persian calendar, months and Nowruz: background for the Nowruz and Yalda readings.
- Persian verb conjugator: check present perfect and passive forms of any verb.
Common questions
How do the three levels differ?
Book 1 teaches the alphabet and basic situations with vowel marks and transliteration. Book 2 (this one) switches to mostly Persian-only text with ten new situations and intermediate tenses. Book 3 covers travel, emergencies, art and health in longer readings, with proverbs and poetry.
Is there transliteration?
Not in the lessons. The book expects you to read Persian script, and only some words carry vowel marks.
Are the instructions in English?
Mostly not. Chapter titles, exercise instructions and readings are in Persian, so you should know classroom words such as تمرین (tamrin, exercise).
Is there an answer key?
Yes. It starts on page 161 and is followed by a glossary.
What do I get after I buy?
A 208-page PDF you can download right after checkout and read on a phone, tablet or computer, or print.
Is there a paperback?
Yes, the paperback is sold on Amazon. The PDF here is the digital edition.
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