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.
Dictionaries:
- Loghatnameh German --> FA, FA --> German
- Aryanpour EN --> FA, FA --> EN
- Farsidic.com EN --> FA, FA --> EN
- Farsi Free-Dict German --> FA, FA --> German
- OEPD - Online English - Persian Dictionary EN --> FA
- Pars Translator EN --> FA
- Dicts.info several languages
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Useful Phrases and Sentences
- Lesson 94 introduces Persian melody
- Lesson 100 some slang and expressions useful in daily conversation
- Lesson 124 Measure / units
- Lesson 128 Measures and Units in Persian - Part 2
- Lesson 132 Persian daily conversation phrases
- Lesson 133 Persian slang / daily conversation phrases - Part 2
- Lesson 137 How to use two verbs (go, ask)?
- Lesson 105 Story: YAHYAA
- Lesson 117 Story: Frogs
- Lesson 130 Story: Translation from English into Persian - Part 2
- Lesson 140 Story: Kelileh vo Demneh - introduction
Information and News about Iran and Farsi
- Worldwide Repository of the Best Persian and Iranian WebSites
- 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.
- BBC Persian: News in Farsi
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
- Iran-Now Network - Magazin
- Persian Partys in Germany
- Planet-Persia.de - Whats up in Germany (Forum)
- Persian Forum: paukerin.com
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!
