Persian

  • As the demand for Persian speakers has grown over the past several years, MEI's Persian staff has expanded to incorporate several extremely knowledgable and experienced teachers. Whether you choose to study Persian for business or for pleasure, MEI will give you an unmatched experience.

  • Elementary Persian I

    $430.00

    Elementary Persian I will teach the Farsi alphabet, numbers, time, body parts, colors, and means of transportation. Emphasis is placed on basic communicative skills such as greetings, introductions, seeking information and expressing basic needs and desires and both linguistic and basic culture awareness.

    Books and Materials: 
    50 Articles 2nd Edition: A textbook for Reading and Listening Comprehension in the Persian Language - By Manuchehr Kouchak

  • Elementary Persian II

    $430.00

    Students are introduced to the future, imperfect, present and past continuous, and present and past perfect tenses, the subjunctive and imperative. Vocabulary and grammar is greatly expanded.

    Prerequisite(s): 
    PERS101
    Books and Materials: 
    50 Articles 2nd Edition: A Textbook for Reading and Listening Comprehension in the Persian Language - By Manchehr Kouchak

  • Elementary Persian III

    $430.00

    Students develop proficiency in using the tenses learned in levels I and II and learn the past subjunctive, conjugating in passive and conditional, present continuous, past perfect, continuous past tense, cardinal numbers versus ordinal numbers, comparisons.and the use of compound conjunctions. Course work includes conversation, translation and composition. Sample topics include: eating out, directions, and locations.

    Prerequisite(s): 
    PERS102
    Books and Materials: 
    50 Articles by Manouchehr Kouchak, 50 Articles 2nd Edition CDs 1 and 2

  • Weekend Intensive Elementary Persian I

    $995.00

    In Weekend Intensive Elementary Persian I, students are introduced to the Persian alphabet and sound system. Students develop their vocabulary and grammar through reading, writing, listening, and speaking exercises. Greetings, numbers, pronouns, singular and plural, adverbs, and sentence structure are also covered. In addition, various verbal forms are taught including simple past, present indicative, future, imperfect, subjunctive, and imperative.

  • Weekend Intensive Lower Intermediate Persian I

    $995.00

    In Weekend Intensive Lower Intermediate Persian I, students develop proficiency in using the grammar, vocabulary, and verbal tenses learned in levels I and II. Students will also learn the past subjunctive, passive, conditional, present continuous, past perfect, and continuous past. Additionally, direction, cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, comparisons, and compound conjunctions are covered. Conversation, composition, and translation are stressed in this course.

    Prerequisite(s): 
    PERS131
    Books and Materials: 
    50 Articles

  • Intermediate Persian I

    $430.00

    Building upon previous level, students develop grammar and vocabulary already learned through conversation, composition, translation, and are introduced to short stories and longer pieces of literature.

  • Intermediate Persian II

    $430.00

    Building upon previous level students develop grammar and vocabulary already learned through conversation, composition, and translation. Study of various Persian literature pieces.

    Prerequisite(s): 
    PERS201
    Books and Materials: 
    Provided by teacher

  • Advanced Persian I

    $430.00

    In Advanced Persian I, students will engage in reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities at the advanced level of Persian. Authentic Persian literature will be used in this course as a means of increasing the student's comfort level with reading and translating. Additionally, conversation is stressed in order to allow students to progress in their speaking proficiency.

    Prerequisite(s): 
    PERS202