Not bad, but not enough, August 9, 2004

I received this CD to learn farsi so I could speak the language with my potential in-laws. All my my fiance's family is from Iran and I wanted to learn the language so I could speak their native language with them and got this CD hoping it would help me out. While I was not upset with my purchase, I wished that the lessons went further into vacabulary. While the other review here is correct, the pronunciation is very good and you can learn the pronunciation very well here, there is not nearly enough on how to speak the language. I am lucky, that I have my fiance, who is fully fluent in farsi (and her family) to teach me more. If not for that I would have been disappointed with this CD. While this CD is a great start, more would definately been better. The lessons at first moved to slow, and then by lesson 7 and 8 they went to fast, then lesson 9 and 10 were to slow again. A second lesson CD package (like Farsi II) would be nice, but more farsi language in this first CD package would have been better.

not worth the money!, February 12, 2004

I hate to say it but this tape set was a gigantic waste of money, granted you do learn some farsi words and sentences and the pronounciation is clear and good and yes you will learn alittle BUT my biggest issue with this set is that it seems like every single tape repeats the same thing on the first tape with what seemed like no new material being taught at all, so essentially for all that money you will learn how to introduce yourself really well and make polite small talk but above and beyond that forget anything relating to life/weather/work/school/family/life or Iran.
forget it!