Reddit reviews An Introduction to Persian Revised 4th Edition
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Che khub! A book I can recommend is Wheeler M Thackston's An Introduction to Persian. That's what I used in class and it's pretty great as far as grammar goes.
As for a dictionary, I've yet to see one with the short vowels written out for students like us. I tend to look up words on farsidic.com and then plug them into Google translate or something for a pronunciation.
I've used various audio programs on and off but the only one I liked I can't find online, unfortunately.
If you're studying tehrani, one more of importance is that the pronunciation is not like Urdu/Hindi for most sounds. Instead it's like English, with the k, t, p aspirated at the beginning of words, and a lot more frontal vowels. There a lot of words in Hindi/Urdu that come from Farsi, but many do not have quite the same meaning, so that is something to watch for. I hope that helps, and best of luck!
I have made very little use of this book since I haven't had the time, but I know in my university's course on Farsi they use Wheeler M Thackston's Introduction to Persian. It's mainly geared toward grammar and reading, I think, so it may not be of much use for speaking, but it might be useful to you, depending on your goals.
Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Persian-Revised-4th/dp/1588140555/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426235235&sr=1-1&keywords=introduction+to+persian
Persian, you say? I was studying Persian at one point with my Arabic teacher. We used Thackston's Persian text and I loved it. When I moved away, I couldn't keep studying with my teacher :( I also used Thackston's Quranic Arabic text, which helped me a lot with translating old Arabic language historical documents.
Here is the mobile version of your link
student here, currently relearning farsi in an academic environment. i highly recommend the book we are using in class: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1588140555/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687442&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1588140547&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0EZ7Z1T8R93BCY5MKYQ3
it has helped me A LOT. it is a very good book for learning farsi.
good luck!