Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation, credited to Shaykh Hasan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation, by Shaykh Hasan. Read by Nicholas J. Bridgewater. “This volume is primarily intended to supply a working and practical knowledge of the Persian language, for the benefit of those who have not the time or the inclination to master the grammar, and yet require to use the spoken tongue for purposes of business or pleasure. With this object in view it supplies many vocabularies of words carefully selected to suit the needs of those holding communication with Persia and the Persians, classified according to subject, and a large number of colloquial phrases and sentences of a practical character, similarly classified… This work thus forms a useful and valuable handbook of Persian for tourists and travellers, commercial men, naval and military officers, students and others. We may add that the Persian language is very sweet, and compared with other languages it is easy to master. It has a complete literature of its own. It is not spoken in Persia alone, but in Afghanistan and many parts of India, and is the official language of some of the courts of that country. It is also used in Turkish Arabia (Baghdad), and by educated people in Russian Turkestan.” (Summary from the Preface, by Shaykh Hasan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation
• Author credits: Shaykh Hasan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 8:39:57

Catalogue topics

• languages
• Persian
• instruction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 00 - Preface — 3:01
2. 01 - The Alphabet and Pronunciation: The Alphabet, The Persi-Arabic Characters, Remarks on the Alphabet, The Romanized Characters, with Phonetic Pronunciation, Preliminary Notes — 11:52
3. 02 - [Vocabularies]: (1) The World and its Elements; (2) Land and Water; (3) Minerals and Metals; (4) Animals, Birds and Fishes; (4) Insects and Reptiles; (5) Flowers, Fruits, Trees and Vegetables — 33:11
4. 03 - [Vocabularies]: (6) Colours; (7) Times and Seasons; (8) Town and Country; (9) Mankind; Relations; (10) The Human Body — 31:55
5. 04 - [Vocabularies]: (11) Health; (12) Food, Drink and Smoking; (12) Cooking and Eating Utensils; (13) Dress and Dressing; (14) Washing List; (15) House and Furniture — 40:25
6. 05 - [Vocabularies]: (16) Professions, Trades, etc.; (17) Travelling by Land; (18) Travelling by Sea; (19) Commercial and Trading Terms; (20) Correspondence; (21) Post-office, Telegraph and Telephone — 48:02
7. 06 - [Vocabularies]: (22) Cardinal Numbers; (23) Ordinal Numbers; (24) Collective and Fractional Numbers — 19:38
8. 07 - [Vocabularies]: (25) Adjectives — 24:10
9. 08 - [Vocabularies]: (26) Verbs — 30:27
10. 09 - [Vocabularies]: (27) Adverbs, Conjunctions, Prepositions, etc. — 22:22
11. 10 - [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (1) The Noun — 3:36
12. 11 - [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (2) The Iz?fat (denotes possession); (3) Adjectives — 6:49
13. 12 - [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (4) Personal Pronouns; (5) Possessive Pronouns; (6) Relative Pronouns; (7) Interrogative Pronouns — 11:05
14. 13 - [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (8) The Verb — 23:54
15. 14 - [Outline of Persian Grammar]: (9) Prepositions; (10) Conjunctions, Adverbs — 5:57
16. 15 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (1) Useful and Necessary Idiomatic Expressions — 27:33
17. 16 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (2) Expressions of Emotion, etc. — 7:26
18. 17 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (3) Enquiries — 5:25
19. 18 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (4) The Railway — 12:53
20. 19 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (5) The Steamboat — 8:00
21. 20 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (6) Arrival — 4:33
22. 21 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (7) The Hotel — 21:34
23. 22 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (8) Meals — 20:05
24. 23 - [Conversational Phrases and Sentences]: (9) Health — 8:43

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