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Persian resources:

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Need to organize these links, a mess at the moment.
Also need to gather rest of links, and get them all up here.
Need to add better description of links.

More websites for learning persian (not organized yet)

http://persianintexas.org/

http://www.persian-language.org/Resource/Centers_Resource.asp

http://www.ili.ir/f.farsicenter.htm

http://www.ili.ir/f.tond.htm

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These two links have many educational links for persian students (pdfs)
Skip first drop down (red triangle), and dig through rest.
I think first link may be some kind of key to view pdfs? Using sumutra so I
don't have to worry about it.
Has math, arabic, science, english, learning materials and tons more, for
persian speaking students

http://www.chap.sch.ir/
http://www.chap.sch.ir/MaghtaList.asp
The General Bureau For Text Books Printing and Distribution Website

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flash cards

http://quizlet.com/subject/persian/
http://www.byki.com/category/farsi

Transliterate from romanised to persian script

http://www.google.com/transliterate/persian
let's you type in english and transforms to persian (online)
(try typing baba ab dad)
(must hit spacebar to get last word to transform)

http://www.google.com/inputtools/windows/index.html
googles ime for converting romanized to foriegn scripts (22 at time of writing)
This is a download, use above link for online version

http://www.behnevis.com/
http://www.behnevis.com/en/index.html
another online transliterator to convert pinglish/finglish to persian script
(second link: description is in english)

http://translate.google.com/#fa/en/
If allow phonetic typing is checked, you can type:
baba ab dad and after hitting space bar each word will be converted
to persian script

online keyboards

http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/persian.htm

http://translate.google.com/#fa/en/
On bottom left of input box, there is a keyboard. If you click it
a persian keyboard will pop up. You can either click on keys or
just start typing, as you keyboard should now be a persian keyboard.
(Good way to learn persian key locations, use keyboard, rather than
using mouse)

alphabet

http://www.studypersian.com/starter/index.htm
This is great for learning the Persian Alefba
http://www.farhangsara.com/Farsi0.htm
http://www.farhangsara.com/farsi_aamozesh.htm
http://www.travlang.com/languages/farsi/pronounce.farsi.html
http://www.farsinet.com/farsi/alefba/

online courses/tutorials

http://www.easypersian.com/
Probably the best online resource for learning persian

http://farsi.tardid.net/
Has video dialogs with written translation in both Persian and English
In blog format (which sucks) but great site to learn from.
Don't forget to use: Older Entries link at bottom, or check out the archives
and other links that are stashed at the bottom.
If you just want the quick and dirty you can grab the lessons here,
but may miss some info in the blog: http://farsi.tardid.net/lessons/
If you are just interested in the videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/farsilearn/videos?view=0

http://www.studypersian.com/
Mostly beginner tutorials teaching simple vocabulary

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/gsasweb/dept/mideast/virtualpersian/index.html
simple tutorial for learning persian. Has audio for written dialogs in the lessons

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Persian
18 lessons last time I looked

http://shahriar.tripod.com/persian/titlepage.html
persian is sugar! persian tutorial (romanized only)

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=818448
someones started teaching persian on this forum thread (romanization only) (29 pages last I looked)

http://www.youtube.com/user/farsiyadbegirim/videos?sort=da&view=0
Yousef who created the spiderfarsi course, has free youtube videos

http://www.persianpreschool.com/home
http://www.persianpreschool.com/downloadable-materials-from-class
also has some preschool books translated for free

http://www.youtube.com/user/FarsiWizard/videos?sort=da&view=0
youtube farsi lessons

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Lessons/PfBindex.html
Around 15 lessons and about 20 audio files

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/LessonsRussian/RussPforBindex.html
same as above, except lessons are in russian, rather than english
(old page so some of the pdf links may be dead)

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Syntax/syntax.pdf
Syntax: A Persian Framework (16mb pdf)

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/
misc stuff about persia

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/TextSearch?term=&location=everywhere&view=cover&page=1&route=all&sort=title&ilang=Persian search page for farsi/persian

tutorials (annoyingly ridden with adds and popups!)

http://www.travlang.com/languages/farsi/

dictionaries

http://www.freelang.net/online/persian.php
this one is romanized only

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/steingass/
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~safari/masood/cgi-bin/
http://www.ariadic.com/
http://www.aryanpour.com/
http://www.dictionary-farsi.com/

www.farsidic.com
(google shows that: This site may be compromised)
english/farsi farsi/english dictionary

Free books

http://www.childrenslibrary.org
children's library has many farsi/persian books

http://www.farsinet.com/ghesseh/
has two free childrens books online

Jokes (persian)

http://www.jokekhoone.com/

Recipes

http://www.farhangsara.com/foods.htm

Books to be purchased

http://www.ketabeiran.com/fBooks.cfm?Category=Children&Pages=13&Page=4&displayRows=10
list of farsi children's books (iranian online bookstore)

persian book publishers

http://www.handsmedia.com/
Has a search function that lets you search google books for content inside their
books (beta currently) Just try putting: در in the search function and see some books.

http://www.handsmedia.com/books/
good for searching book by authors/titles
just use drop down of authors if you don't know any

poems

http://rira.ir/rira/php/?page=view&mod=public&obj=module&id=classicpoems
may be hard to navigate. just start working way down from 2nd link: ۲.

comics

http://www.iranian.com/main/albums/tintin-tehran

comedians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rlFpUhziE
maz jobrani: persians vs arabs (in engish)

chatrooms

http://www.iranianchat.com/chat/
web based (romanized) (about 20 people in there yapping)

irc.freenode.net #archlinux-ir
chatroom for iranian archlinux users

fonts

http://www.farsiweb.ir/wiki/Install_Font
Free Unicode Persian fonts, including:
Elham, Terafik, Terafik Bold, Titr, Roya, Roya Bold, Koodak, Nazli, Nazli Bold, and Homa

Old Persian

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/aveol-0-X.html
old persian

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/OldPersian/index.html
old persian from havard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Persian
wiki entry

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