# Basic Persian

- By: Nahid Shiran - Author / Rajiv Ranjan
- Publisher: Michigan State University
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/basic-persian)
- Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial
- eBook: https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/persian/
- Online: https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/persian/
- PDF: https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/persian/
- XML: https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/persian/

Basic Persian is an online, interactive, tech-enhanced, theme-based textbook for the true beginner of Persian language which promotes speaking, listening, reading, writing and cultural skills. Basic Persian promotes communicative, linguistic, and cultural competence. It has a mixture of pedagogical approaches to fit all types of learning and teaching philosophies/styles to achieve intermediate low to mid ACTFL proficiency level within a two-sequence semester.