32.3332, Summer Schools: Persian Language Winter School 2021 / Armenia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3332. Sat Oct 23 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.3332, Summer Schools:  Persian Language Winter School 2021 / Armenia

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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:53:52
From: Khachik Gevorgyan [khachik at aspirantum.com]
Subject: Persian Language Winter School 2021 / Armenia

Persian Language Winter School 2021

Host Institution: 
Website: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-winter-school

Dates: 28-Nov-2021 - 24-Dec-2021
Location: Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia

Focus: ASPIRANTUM’s Persian language schools are organized in a way that undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professors as well as anyone interested in learning Persian benefit from it the most. So everyone with upper elementary, lower-intermediate, and intermediate levels of Persian is welcome to apply and participate in ASPIRANTUM’s Persian language winter school from November 28 till December 24 in Yerevan.
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum

Description:
The Persian language winter school offers 80 hours of intensive Persian
language classes during 20 days of teaching (from Monday till Friday each
week). Every day the participants will receive Persian language instruction
for 4 hours. The classes start in the mornings and the schedule is the
following:

09:00 - 10:00 - Persian language class
10:00 - 10:10 - Coffee Break
10:10 - 11:10 - Persian language class
11:10 - 11:20 - Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:30 - Persian language class
12:30 - 12:40 - Coffee Break
12:40 - 13:40 - Persian language class (fourth and final class)

During the Persian language winter classes the following components will be
covered every day to foster the Persian language knowledge of participants at
a rapid pace:

Grammar: Every day class will cover the main grammatical concepts of the
modern Persian language.
Vocabulary: During the 3 weeks course it is anticipated that the participants
will learn around 1000 new Persian words from literary language as well as
words used in everyday life.
Listening: The classes are scheduled in a way that participants with the
guidance of an experienced instructor learn the Persian language through songs
and movies as well as watching and listening to news and other short videos
about interesting and sometimes funny topics and stories about Iranian
realities.
Speaking: Every day the Persian language classes will push the students to
exercise their speaking abilities through discussions, conversations, and
interpretations about different texts and topics.
Writing: Each day the participants of the Persian language class will have
assignments and homework to complete for the next day. The homework will
primarily involve writing assignments and those will be assessed by the
teacher and discussed the next day’s Persian language class.
Reading: Every day students will read and discuss political texts, prose and
poetry, conversations and news. The corpus of texts to be read and discussed
during the classes comprises different prominent Persian authors, daily
conversations as well as news of the day.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Languages: Persian, Iranian

Language Families: Indo-European

Tuition: 990 USD

Tuition Explanation: Participation fee:
The participation fee is: 
$1590 - 4 weeks: in the application form, you may select also a 2 or 3 weeks
program starting from Nov 28 
$1290 - 3 weeks
$990 - 2 weeks

Registration: Open until 27-Oct-2021

Contact Person: Khachik Gevorgyan
                Email: khachik at aspirantum.com

Registration Instructions:
To apply, please fill in the application form.

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