Modern Persian, Elementary Level: Like a Nightingale

Modern Persian, Elementary Level is a cutting-edge elementary Persian language textbook intended for two consecutive semesters. With contemporary real-world topics, high-frequency structures and vocabulary, a multitude of engaging speaking activities in each chapter, and a companion website, this textbook is an innovative, effective and integrated way for beginners to acquire functional proficiency in colloquial and written Persian. Request an e-inspection copy here. The companion website for the book can be accessed here: https: //sites.google.com/a/anthempress.com/modern-persian/

Iago Gocheleishvili is Senior Lecturer of Persian studies at Cornell University. He has been designing and teaching university-level courses in less-commonly-taught languages since 2003. Dr. Gocheleishvili designed the Persian language course at Cornell University and spent the past fourteen years developing curriculum and teaching Persian language at Cornell’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. Dr. Gocheleishvili has done extensive fieldwork in North, West and Central Iran working with the regional dialects and languages of modern Iran and has authored over a dozen of academic publications in the fields of Persian and Iranian Studies.