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Lots general information about traveling both to and within Iran. The talk section also has a lot of basic grammar and lots of practical phrases for traveling and general conversation.

Free to use and fun online games for learning Farsi/Persian. Suitable for learners at different stages and levels. Includes a resource guide for studying Farsi.

This is a great little introduction to Persian's origins, alphabet, and grammatical structure. Fun and entertaining!

Iranian Historical & Cultural Information Center. An extremely comprehensive website dedicated to Iran, its history, art and culture, current news and media as well as many other relevant topics a student might be interested in.

Study Guides for the equivalent of one year of Persian for beginners. The emphasis is on oral proficiency.

Alphabet from English to Farsi and in Farsi to English, depending on which order you prefer.

this site is very useful because they have simple phrases and you can hear the pronunciation as well as the alphabet

ROOTS AND BRANCHES OF FARSI LANGUAGE - Persian Journal Archaeological Culture Art History Latest cutlural Archaeology history news & Iranian cutlure archaeology newspaper art history

no activities, just the letters and numbers without ligation

Good source on structure of the government, as well as latest news in the executive and what Kabul is upto.

Online lessons in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Persian or Farsi as spoken in Iran. In addition to Persian language lessons, the site introduces the contemporary Iranian poets and the translation of their poems in English - free Farsi / Persian software - Persian name with English translation - Farsi writing drills - Persian poetry - chat room

really good resource, with pronunciations!

Great for vocab, grammar, and applications to help learn the language!

history and timeline of the language

This page contains an article analyzing pahlawi, farsi, and dari.

Google Book that explains grammar, pronunciation, culture and emergencies. It is a Lonely Plant text on Iran.

No need to download anything. This site goes from English-Farsi and Farsi-English allowing for potential mastery of the days of the week.

Great introduction to Persian at the beginning level as well as to more advanced levels. It offers a variety of different lessons that slowly demonstrate spelling, pronunciation, and many other things.

A great study website that offers online grammar pages as well as vocabulary lists, cultural information videos and articles, quizzes, and other useful inks.

This is a link to Iran's most highly circulated daily publication. You can use a translater to translate the articles and then match up the English / Farsi translations to expand your vocabulary and begin to recognize commonly used words in the news.

This is a great site for learning the names of the colors in Farsi. It has the name of the color spelled phonetically and in the Farsi alphabet. Additionally, it shows a picture of the color and gives the option to have the name read aloud.

Article from the The International about the challenges and successes of the Iranian film industry.

I love Iranian films. I think this article picked up on many key struggles that Iranian filmmakers face. Even though the picture shows pirated movies being sold, the article does not discuss the implications it has on filmmakers or even what it says about the people in Iran who buy them. From what I have read from other articles, it seems as though Iranian films are more acclaimed in Western countries- not only because of censorship laws but the Iranian public's choice of what movies to watch. TASTE OF CHERRY, mentioned in the article, is one of my favorite films.