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You can use chat groups to practice e.g in telegram. Persian speakers love to help people learning their language.

This is a group of people who are learning Persian among some natives in telegram you can join and practice as much as you want: https://t.me/joinchat/D7fvvD83YUIg4_pxguagkw

cool thanks! i was also looking at this it looks like it’s very difficult to find anywhere for a price less than $95 :| https://www.amazon.com/Iranian-Languages-Routledge-Language-Family/dp/0415622352/

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Hey redditer,

First, The correct title is "درباره الی" and it's not with the Arabic "ع" letter.

So I searched for 10 minutes and find nothing just like you. although I find this for "A Separation" movie: https://subscene.com/subtitles/a-separation-jodaeiye-nader-az-simin/farsi_persian/940298

This is really sad that we don't have Persian subtitles for Iran movies. I mean what deaf people do in Iran?

If you really want a Persian subtitle and you didn't find any, I can subtitle it for you. contact me but it may take a while.

As is often the case, the FSI materials, despite their age, offer some of the most extensive and systematic materials for nailing down the pronunciation. You can find the book and the audio drills for the FSI Basic Persian course, later published commercially as "Spoken Persian", at the Yojik website here:

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/oldfsi/languages/persian.html

There's only one volume, but the phonological descriptions are quite detailed and there are lots of aural/oral drills. I think it's likely just what you're looking for.

/u/oyinqaroq is correct - the "a" is like in "cat". It is not pronounced like "man" in English as that "a" has a distinctive drop-and-glide into the "n" - the Persian "a" doesn't have this.

These pronunciations are correct: http://www.forvo.com/word/%D9%85%D9%86/#ar

What's the context? If it was written in an informal context, maybe it just means "pro"? Glosbe also lists "pro" as a possible translation, but in the sense of being "for" something, not as a short way of saying "professional."

https://glosbe.com/fa/en/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88

This is an issue with incomplete/bad dictionaries. https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/hayyim/ is good. https://glosbe.com/fa/en/ also has all your words along with examples - but doesn't mark vowels. Steinglass' Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary is the best, but expensive (and physical, which can be a pain.) Colin Turner's Thematic dictionary is nice, yet Kafkaesque, because you have to already know what a word means know where to find it.

Super helpful for the subtitle website is this site: https://glosbe.com/fa/en/ This will help you sort of which word in the list are actual words and not transliterations of english names (which show up a ton in subtitles) or slang or random particles that won't show up in a dictionary. You'll also notice there's some words that will have an obscure dictionary definition and then find out through that website that the word is only really every used in some common expression.

You might want to have a look at glosbe.com, which does have a English-Farsi lookup and *sometimes* has the Persian audio as well. Unfortunately, it seems that it gets the audio only from Wiktionary, not from Forvo, and Wiktionary has a very limited set of pronunciations.

Basically, you want a dictionary with pronunciations, and it's kind of unfortunate that this doesn't seem to exist!

Sorry for not responding sooner but here is point and click adventure game https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.FanaeiGameStudio.Game41148&hl=en&gl=US It has the best story in any Mobile game I played definitely give it a try

https://www.amazon.de/Persian-Dialect-Herat-Youli-Ioannesyan/dp/3659690384

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Here's a book for the Persian dialect of Herat.

There are some universities in Germany that offer Persian course like Bamberg, Berlin, Hamburg, Marburg, and so on. You could take a course over there.

A book that I like is Colloquial Persian. As far as online dictionaries go, the English Wiktionary is surprisingly good. Have a look at our resource collection.

Modern Persian: Spoken and Written is the one I've been using. I haven't put much time into it, but I've had a good experience through the second chapter anyway.

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https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Persian-Spoken-Written-Language/dp/0300100515/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3G65NUIV84R2P&keywords=modern+persian+spoken+and+written&qid=1554863004&s=books&sprefix=modern+persian%3A+spoken+and+%2Cstripbooks%2C176&sr=1-2

I can't speak on behalf of everyone but personally learning grammar first is my favorite method for every language and it has been for persian too. I need grammar to build a foundation of the structures the language is based upon, for unlocking its logic. I grasp vocabulary through the exercises along the way. Again this is strictly a personal perspective.

That being said, I've used Routledge Basic Persian and it helped me an awful lot. It starts with the writing system, how to read it, and then in the beginning of each lesson it gives you a list of words which you're going to learn in order to be able to understand the grammar rules addressed. Every word appears within a sentence somewhere in the lesson so you get to see their use in context too. There are exercises for each lesson and there's a key for all of them at the end of the book as well as an appendix for all the vocabulary.

Link for the book in Amazon.

You can also download it here for free.

http://sites.la.utexas.edu/persian_online_resources/

book: https://www.amazon.com/Farsi-Persian-Beginners-Mastering-Conversational/dp/0804841829/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515290353&sr=8-1&keywords=mastering+conversational+farsi

The books looks good so far. I'm using to help me refresh stuff that I've learned.

this is good for beginners: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Persian-Modern-Farsi-Audio/dp/0071737626

i also used this as a slightly more advanced text, it's pretty grammar heavy: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Persian-Revised-3rd/dp/0936347295/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1454531009&sr=1-2&keywords=thackston+persian