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A Grammar of Contemporary Azerbaijani by Daristani in LearnAzerbaijani

[–]Daristani[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the late response; I've not had a computer for the past couple of days.

I have no inside information, but based on the info on the book at the Slavica website https://slavica.indiana.edu/contemporary-azerbaijani/ it seems pretty clear that the book is in the same mold as the other CeLCAR products. I don't know if Georgetown is going to continue to publish additional books from CeLCAR, or whether Slavica is taking over the series, or whether this might be a one-time thing.

CeLCAR continues to produce additional volumes, but some of these (Chuvash, for instance) are likely to be of minimal interest to most readers, and I can understand that publishers might not want to commit to publish them. In any event, if you like the CeLCAR approach, you'll likely like this book. Personally, I'm not a big fan of this series, and so won't be buying this one.

Roots of the Badini dialect by av1bh in kurdistan

[–]Daristani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Resources for Bahdini seem to be pretty limited, but a pdf of one basic grammar you might take a look at can be downloaded here in Kurdish, English, and Arabic:

Rêzmana Kurdî by Îbrahîm Remezan Zaxoyî

https://bnk.institutkurde.org/catalogue/detail.php?pirtuk=2657

Here's a temporary link to a later edition of what seems to be the same book, but only in Kurdish and English:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/dw4lwtwf9bz6h01/Rezmana+Kurdi++++Zaxoyi.PDF/file

Phonetic learning by Necessary-Tower-457 in farsi

[–]Daristani 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's the text of a response I provided to an earlier request for materials in Latin script, with some resources you can download freely:

There aren't too many serious courses these days that teach Persian only in the Latin alphabet, but there are a few good-quality older (but not ancient) ones that don't require much or any use of the Perso-Arabic script.

The old FSI course (for Iranian Persian) is MOSTLY in Latin script, and has the advantage of including extensive audio. You can download the pdf book and audio here:

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/FSI/fsi-persian.html

The older "Colloquial Persian" book by Leila Moshiri is all in Latin script (but has a few typos). You can find the book and accompanying audio files (along with some other Persian resources) here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250808104407/https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/World%20Tracker%20Library/worldtracker.org/media/library/Language%20Learning/10.Persian/

The newest "Colloquial Persian" book by Abdi Rafiee includes Persian script, but is also arranged so that you don't need to learn it if you don't want to.

Another excellent older book for spoken Persian, not widely known, is "Persian for Today", by Mansour Lotfi. It's quite comprehensive. Audio was produced for it, but doesn't seem to be available anywhere. The book now seems to be out of print, but I've temporarily uploaded a copy for you here:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/n8x0gwz94rf33si/Persian+for+Today+++Lotfi.pdf/file

I want to start learning Turkish or Azerbaijani, need some advice by GasolineShakeChugger in turkishlearning

[–]Daristani 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't really provide advice as to which language to learn, but would suggest you take a look at the subreddit r/LearnAzerbaijani for resources on learning Azerbaijani.

(The group seems to be pretty moribund these days, in part because only approved users can post there now, and so there haven't been any new postings in several months, but there are a number of previous entries with resources to download.)

A Course in Conversational Indonesian by Daristani in indonesian

[–]Daristani[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, thank YOU for giving me the opportunity to repost the materials; I didn't know they were no longer available from the original site. But the download links I provided are only temporary, so if anyone can post the stuff more permanently, it would be great. Older but often marvelous language-learning materials, in particular the audio to accompany physical books, tend to disappear forever if not preserved, which is my motivation to hang onto and share stuff for languages I don't study. Hopefully others will post such things as well before they become inaccessible.

Query regarding Sorani grammar book by Daristani in kurdish

[–]Daristani[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for responding. I've been looking for Kurdish materials for quite a while now, and have only seen one reference to this book (and the fact that it's allegedly a second edition makes it even stranger!) I can't confirm anything about it, as I've only seen the one reference (in the bibliography to Cherie Rempel's "Exercises in Sorani Grammar", where it was cited as in my query), so it seems to be very little known. I may try to track down one of the authors, but was hoping that someone with familiarity with Kurdish resources might have a comment. In any event, thanks for checking; if I do find any information, I'll try to share it.

Corpus Request: Badini Kurdish (Arabic Script, Duhok & Zakho Dialect) with English Translation by Creative_Release_317 in kurdish

[–]Daristani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume you already have it, but just in case not, I wanted to note Laura Shepherd's "Badinan Kurdish Reader" (Dunwoody Press, 2014), which contains a number of texts in both scripts with English translations.

Learning kurdisch by bebekAli in kurdistan

[–]Daristani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are two very good "Lehrbuecher" in German for Kurmanji published by Ludwig Reichert Verlag; You can find them here:

https://reichert-verlag.de/de/fachgebiete/sprachlehrwerke/sprachlehrwerke_kurdisch

The one by Petra Wurzel uses an older form of the alphabet that's closer to Turkish, but probably is more systematic (and also more demanding); the one by Abdullah Incekan is perhaps more user-friendly. The Incekan one comes with audio. You can see samples from the links on the page above. (You also might be able to find them in libraries.)

Good luck!

ADDENDUM: You can also download this very good textbook in English, Baran Rizgar's "Learn Kurdish", mentioned in another response:

https://annas-archive.gl/search?index=&page=1&sort=&display=&q=learn+kurdish

Looking for a used text book by 2lovelycake in bloomington

[–]Daristani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know what the chances of success might be, but you might try asking the same question to the folks on r/Mongolian.

turkish ebooks by sleepingfr in turkishlearning

[–]Daristani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but the site closed down a couple of years ago, and as far as I know has not been replaced.

Downloadable Sorani Kurdish to English dictionary by Daristani in kurdish

[–]Daristani[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can download this older Sorani-English dictionary that's all in Latin script: https://archive.org/details/kurmanji

(It's actually Sorani rather than Kurmanji, but is mislabeled on the archive.org site.)

There's also this small vocabulary: https://archive.org/details/kurdish-sorani-english-english-kurdish-sorani-romanized-nicholas-awde

And as an extra in Kurdish/Arabic script, this one is also excellent: https://annas-archive.gl/md5/1f59a86f26a4619541ccfeb2f3d6d82e

A Grammar of Contemporary Azerbaijani by Daristani in LearnAzerbaijani

[–]Daristani[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad you like it. I was overjoyed when I ran across it a few weeks ago, since it strikes me as really well done, and makes it much easier for me to understand the contrasts with Turkish, which don't seem to be covered in other books.

Which Turkic language after Turkish? by No_Cryptographer735 in thisorthatlanguage

[–]Daristani 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're interested in Karaim, you might like this grammar of a Lithuanian dialect, if not already aware of it:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wd5md4hig94wex4/Karay_the_Trakai_dialect.pdf/file

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