Böcker av Mitra Ara

This is a comprehensive guide to reading and writing the script of contemporary Persian. Drawing on years of classroom experience, Mitra Ara introduces and gives detailed instructions to reading, writing, typing, various handwriting forms, cursive writing, vowels, signs, and pronunciation. She also explains the most important scripts, Naskh and Nastaliq. Lesser used styles such as Kufic are also covered. This book is an excellent resource for students and teachers. It includes numerous exercises and writing practices which help reinforce the students ability to learn the language.

Those teaching and learning Modern Persian outside the language s native homeland (Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan), with its myriad dialects and accents, will benefit from this exclusive presentation of Standard Modern Persian next to its nonstandard equivalent, as well as their multilingual translations. This is the first and only polyglot Shirazi-Persian-English and English-Persian-Shirazi translation guide in one volume, featuring over 37,000 entries, including word pronunciations and translations.