Routledge Advanced Persian Course

<p><em>The Routledge Advanced Persian Course: Farsi Shirin Ast 3</em> aims to help students of higher-level proficiency continue elevating their proficiency level to achieve near-native level. Key features include:</p><ul> <li>Authentic texts on a variety of topics related to Iran’s history geography arts literature culture religions society and people.</li> <li>Each lesson includes a prominent poet and their most representative poem familiarizing students with the Persian literary canon while indirectly learning the higher order registers used in the language of poetry.</li> <li>Lessons end with a Persian proverb and the story behind it so that students will not only master the language but also the culture of the language and reach a near-native level of linguistic and cultural proficiency. The proverbs and some of the classical poetry are written in the calligraphy form to make students get used to reading handwritten texts resembling calligraphy.</li> <li>Audio files are provided so that learners who are studying on their own can have access to correct pronunciations.</li> </ul><p>This textbook continues the series from <i>The Routledge Intermediate Course in Persian </i>and is ideal for Advanced or B2-C1 level students of Persian.</p>