The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course

The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course: Farsi Shirin Ast, book two is the first Persian textbook written specifically for English-speaking university students that makes use of up-to-date pedagogical techniques, and stresses the importance of communicative competence. The book contains a wide range of texts with different registers and various levels of complexity. _x000D_ The text is designed for university level learners of Persian as a second/foreign language at the intermediate level, i.e. in the second year of their study of the language. The text links all language skills in a communicative way, based on a solid linguistic and pedagogical footing. Building on the introduction of Persian script in Book 1, Book 2 practices reading and writing skills from the word go. _x000D_ The course is based around pre-reading questions and texts from a variety of sources, modern and traditional. These are followed by comprehension exercises, vocabulary building, grammar explanations, and exercises based on the text. All the texts as audio files will be included on the free companion website. These texts are recorded by native speakers and available for instructors and students to download.