Beginner and Intermediate Levels

The Pishi and Pasha language book series help you master conversational Farsi in a simple, fun, and interactive way. They focus on basic to advanced sentence structure and the use of language in real-life conversational contexts. The combination of Books 1-4 will teach you everything you need to know about sentence structure and the use of the verbs “to be”, “to have”, and “to like/love” in Farsi. With this package, you will learn a wide range of vocabulary and grammar points that help strengthen your conversational skills in major topics such as “expressing emotions”, “describing the weather”, “place & time”, “greetings & introductions”, “family & friends”, and “hobbies & favorites”. This package will help the learners of conversational Farsi gain the knowledge they need to create a solid foundation to master the language.

Verbs “to be” - “to have” - Verb “to like/love” (Hardcover)

Book 4 is the first book in the intermediate series where you will learn how to introduce and describe yourself and/or someone else using the “be” verb (greetings & introductions), have conversations about your family and belongings using the verb “to have” (family & friends), and talk about hobbies and the things someone likes and dislikes using the verb “to like/love” (hobbies & favorites). Book4 includes many real-life conversations on different topics, grammar pages that walk you through the sentence structures and include important points in form of little notes, vocabulary pages that help you use what you have learned in a variety of contexts, review pages that put everything you’ve learned in each chapter together, and practice pages that you can use to assess your learning.

“be” Verb - Place and Time (Hardcover)

While Books 1 and 2 focused on the use of “be” verbs in Simple Present to express emotions and describe the weather, Book 3 teaches you how to ask about or say where someone or something is (Where?), ask about or tell the time (What Time?), and ask about or say what day and date it is (What Day? What Date? When?) in both Simple Present and Past tenses. Furthermore, the book covers the cardinal and ordinal numbers, days of the week, and months of the year in Farsi along with the related vocabulary and real-life conversation examples. Some important topics of day-to-day conversation are covered by introducing key question words on the topics of time and place. With the knowledge you gain in this book, you’ll continue to create a solid foundation to master conversational Farsi.

“be” Verb - Weather (Hardcover)

As a continuation to Book 1, Book 2 teaches you the vocabulary and the grammar knowledge you need to have conversations and make your own sentences to describe and ask about the weather. Each chapter focuses on a season and some common weather types associated with that season. You will learn how the sentence structure and expansion of sentences work in Farsi. In each chapter you will also learn about the Persian calendar and some Persian seasonal traditions and festivals celebrated by millions of people around the world for thousands of years. Each chapter closes with a list of vocabulary relevant to the season that you can use to further make your own sentences. With the knowledge you gain in this book, you’ll continue to create a solid foundation to master conversational Farsi.

“be” Verb - Emotions (Hardcover)

Book 1 teaches you a range of emotion-related vocabulary as well as the grammar knowledge you need in order to make simple sentences with the “be'' verb in both affirmative and negative forms. The book consists of nine sections, each focusing on one emotion followed by demonstrating one aspect of the sentence structure. In other words, you will learn everything you need to know about the use of “be” verbs in Farsi, one section at a time. Just like English, the “be” verb is used in Farsi to talk about things like name, occupation, nationality, quality, emotions, time, and place. Therefore, with the knowledge you gain, you create a solid foundation to master conversational Farsi.

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I have been taking classes with Bahareh for over a year now, and I have never had so much fun learning! Bahareh truly cares about each individual student and their needs. She spends time to get to know you and learn about your interests and structures each lesson around fun conversations. Most lessons I feel like I am talking to a long-lost friend. She always celebrates what I have done right and when I have misspoken overs me so many examples and tells me about the specific chapters in her books that I can reference to practice and learn more. She is so encouraging and truly loves languages. I have grown so much in the year I have been studying with Bahareh and I am looking forward to more. Her books are incredibly informative, have so many interesting examples and cultural references, and following the story of Pishi and Pasha is so cute. You can tell Bahareh does everything with her full heart.

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