Persian

Saeed Yousef is Senior Lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago.

• Introduction 2. Script and Sound 3. Nouns 4. The connector ezafe 5. Pronouns 6. Adjectives 7. Adverbs 8. Numerals, measures and quantities 9. Prepositions 10. Conjunctions 11. Infinitive and its derivatives 12. Persian verbs 13. Tenses, moods, aspects, cases 14. Sentences 15. Punctuation Marks 16. Colloquial Persian 17. Contemporary Remnants of Archaic Features 18. Arabic in Persian

Persian, like English, is both famously easy and notoriously tricky for the foreign learner. Saeed Yousef’s book anticipates the tricks before you stumble on them: this is an essential companion for students at every level.John Perry (author of A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar, Brill, 2005)