Persian Language Courses
Persian is an Indo-European language, the linguistic cousin of English, German, Greek, Latin, French, Sanskrit, Russian, etc., showing many of the linguistic features of English relative to other IE languages: loss of case, grammatical gender, adjective agreement, etc. Its use of the Arabic script, however, rather than the Latin--an historical accident--poses an obvious obstacle to English learners. These courses are designed to deal with this hurdle from the beginning by devoting a considerable portion of the first three weeks of the first semester to assimilating thoroughly the new graphical-phonological association as a solid foundation of future study. Therefore, transliteration will not be used. During the same period of learning to read, write, and pronounce words in the Arabic script, greetings, simple drills, dialogues and conversations will be used to begin the communicative phase of the course. Thus the semester begins with an outline of
the pronunciation and writing system of Modern Persian supplemented with greetings and real communicative drills. All semester courses of the Persian program emphasize
all four principal language skills: speaking, comprehension, reading, and writing throughout the year. Consequently, dialogues and drills have been designed with this in mind. Authentic texts are used, rather than constructed readings, and even when edited
they represent genuine communication. All reading texts and dialogues are recorded
on cassettes for students to use at home or in a language laboratory; others as mp3
and digital video are emailed or presented on compact disk.
The textbook for the first three semesters, Modern Persian Elementary Level, by Gernot Windfuhr, contains twenty-eight lessons, designed to be completed in four semesters, lessons 1-8 in the first semester, 9-17 or 18 the second. Third semester finishes the
book. Modern Persian Intermediate Level, by the same author, is used for the fourth semester. The lessons in the texts are supplemented by additional drills, dialogues, situational skits, games, poetry, and songs, drawn from various sources
Persian Language Course Outcome Objectives
Selected Bibliography for Persian study
Supplementary links for Persian study
Persian Course Offerings
Duke University
For course information and registration contact Dr. Dwight Stephens, tel. 668-1933,
dwight.stephens@duke.edu or
Ms. Becky Hayes, Department of Slavic and Central Asian Languages, 660-3140, bhayes@duke.edu.
Elementary Persian Persian 1 (Fall)
M Tu W Th 2:50 PM-4:05 PM (Keohane 4D, 201)
Instructor: Ms. Fattaneh Naeymirad, fvalin@nc.rr.com
Elementary Persian Persian 2 (Spring)
M Tu W Th (Keohane 4D, 201)
Instructor: Ms. Fattaneh Naeymirad, fvalin@nc.rr.com
Intermediate Persian Persian 63 (Fall)
Tu W Th 4:25-5:40 (Keohane 4D, 201)
Instructor: Ms. Fattaneh Naeymirad, fvalin@nc.rr.com
Intermediate Persian Persian 64 (Spring)
Tu W Th (Keohane 4D, 201)
Instructor: Ms. Fattaneh Naeymirad, fvalin@nc.rr.com
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
For registration information contact Ms. Lori Harris,
leharris@email.unc.edu , tel. 843-5340.
Elementary Persian
PRSN 1 (Fall) Section 001 MWF 12:00-12:50 117 Hanes Art Center
Instructor: Ms. Zahra Kamarei, zkamarei@email.unc.edu
Elementary Persian
PRSN 2 (Spring) Section 001 MWF 9:00-9:50 GM 210
Instructor: Ms. Zahra Kamarei, zkamarei@email.unc.edu
Intermediate Persian
PRSN 3 (Fall) Section 001 MWF 3:00-3:50 MU 314
Instructor: Ms. Fattaneh Naeymirad, fvalin@nc.rr.com
Intermediate Persian
PRSN 4 (Spring) Section 001 MWF 3:00-3:50 MU 314
Instructor: Ms. Fattaneh Naeymirad, fvalin@nc.rr.com
Advanced Persian
On Demand
Instructor: Ms. Fattaneh Naeymirad, fvalin@nc.rr.com
North Carolina State University
For registration information contact Ms. Faye Walker, Dept. of Foreign Languages,
515-9276, efwalker@social.chass.ncsu.edu or
Dr. Dwight Stephens, dstephens@ncsu.edu, 515-9306.
Elementary Persian I (Fall) PER101
MWF 1:30-2:20 HA 302
cf. http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/tracs_bk/fall/courses/FL.html
Instructor: staff
Elementary Persian II (Spring) PER 102
cf. http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/tracs_bk/sprg/courses/FL.html
Instructor: staff
Intermediate Persian I (Fall) PER 201
TuTh 11:45-1:00 HA 215
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/tracs_bk/fall/courses/FL.html
Instructor: staff
Intermediate Persian II (Spring) FL 295C-007
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/tracs_bk/sprg/courses/FL.html
Instructor: staff
Fayetteville State University
For registration information contact Ms. Vickie Bannon, Department of English and Foreign Languages, vbannon@uncfsu.edu, tel. 910-672-1471
or Dr. Dwight Stephens, dwight.stephens@duke.edu, tel. 919-668-1933.
Elementary Persian I (Fall) FORL 210-02
MWF 1:00-1:50 386 Butler (Language Lab)
Instructor: staff
North Carolina Central University
No Persian classes are offered at present, but they are anticipated for the future.
Please contact A Nasir, anasir@nccu.edu, tel. 530-7372 or
Dwight Stephens, 668-1933, dwight.stephens@duke.edu for information.