Dari-English/English-Dari Practical Dictionary

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We also offer services for Dari interpretation, voice-overs, transcriptions, and multilingual search engine optimization. No matter what your Dari translation needs are, Translation Services USA can provide for them. Dari Language Facts: These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. IAM’s Dari and Pashtu Materials (including the Long Course and the Short Course)

Persian has been a medium for literary and scientific contributions to the Islamic world as well as the Western. It has also had an influence on certain neighboring languages, particularly the Turkic languages of Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia, as well as Urdu, Hindi, and other Indian languages. It has had a lesser influence on Arabic and other languages of Mesopotamia. Proficiency, Competence, & Planning (PDF; 14.7MB) — a follow-up to the above presentation, describing the ideas of proficiency and proficiency-oriented language-learning, various types of communicative competence, and some tools for planning lessons. There is a handout and the text of the narration for this as well We support the following languages: Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Mexican, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and hundreds more!UnisPers or Universal Persian, is a method of writing Persian with the Latin alphabet developed in Iran during the 1950s. The chart shows the letters used to write UniPers, together with their equivalent Persian letters. . We also provide transcription, video recording and subtitling services. Should you need to have an existing video dubbed, a commercial narrated or a telephone system recorded, our native Dari speakers are available to furnish expert voiceover services. A guide for expatriates learning to read Dari, Second Edition (PDF; 143kb; 16pp) — a brief guide providing basic information about how Dari is written, explaining the most common conventions and providing intuition for some of the more opaque practices. Use this guide to give yourself a general overview of the Dari alphabet, before either striking out on your own, or using the workbook above Lingua franca is a language used to communicate between persons not sharing the same mother tongue, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both persons' mother tongues.) Language Facts

Play Sudoku with local numbers (PDF; 10kb; 1pp) — silly as it sounds, actually using the numbers and thinking about them is the best way to learn For a faster, more accurate estimate, please provide the following information in the "Your Message" section of your request: Flashcards from the Dari Long Course, Phase 1 (1366 cards) — These prompt both with the pronunciation (in IPA) and the English translation. The official language of Iran is sometimes called Farsi in English and other languages. This is a correct transliteration of the native name of the language, however many, including the ISO and the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, prefer the name Persian for the language.

Phrases in Iranian languages

Interlinear texts (PDF; 70kb; 3pp) — This is a general resource for helping you to make the most of interlinear texts, which are made use of in several LCP resources.

Learning Kinship Terms (Names for Relatives) (PDF; 62 kb; 2pp) — Use family trees to learn the kinship terms for any language. There are two family trees that accompany the activity, one with a large nuclear family and one with a larger extended family. Flashcards for the LCP News Collection (1273 cards) — These cover all the words from the LCP News Collection resource, minus the less relevant proper names. (Revised December 10, 2016.) Each of these requires about 65 MB of space on a Windows computer, or about 30 MB of space on an Apple computer. Once you’ve run the installation, you can delete the installer files. On September 25, 2016, the International Assistance Mission made the decision to release as much of its language-learning material as possible under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You can view that materials that have been made available so far in this shared Dropbox folder. GrammarThese are narrated slide presentations about language learning. There are references to IAM-specific practices, but the information should be applicable to most learners. Nine Assumptions About Language and Culture Learning (PDF; 10.7MB) — introduces and applies nine assumptions that guide LCP’s thinking about language and culture learning. There is a handout to go along with this, and the text of the narration is also available if you prefer it that way Dari-English Dictionary (Windows installer; 30 MB) (Apple installer; 15MB) —The latest version of the Dari-English dictionary program. You can look up words by their English meaning, International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation, or Glassman script pronunciation.