{"id":198,"date":"2016-03-12T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-01-20T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T09:22:49","slug":"great-stories-for-language-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/2016\/03\/12\/great-stories-for-language-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Great stories for language learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This brief post\u00a0is just to share a neat web site, which has a great little collection of short, <em>short<\/em>\u00a0Persian stories. These are not \u201cshort stories\u201d as in ten pages, but \u201cshort stories\u201d as in one paragraph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/story01.persianblog.ir\/\">Story 01<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a taste, appropriate for Valentine&#8217;s Day:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"direction: rtl;\"><p>\u067e\u06cc\u0631 \u0645\u0631\u062f \u0627\u0632 \u0635\u062f\u0627\u06cc \u062e\u0631 \u0648 \u067e\u0641 \u067e\u06cc\u0631 \u0632\u0646 \u0647\u0631 \u0634\u0628 \u0634\u06a9\u0627\u06cc\u062a \u062f\u0627\u0634\u062a !<br \/>\n\u067e\u06cc\u0631 \u0632\u0646 \u0647\u0631\u06af\u0632 \u0646\u0645\u06cc \u067e\u0630\u0631\u0641\u062a\u2026<br \/>\n\u0634\u0628\u06cc \u067e\u06cc\u0631 \u0645\u0631\u062f \u0622\u0646 \u0635\u062f\u0627 \u0631\u0627 \u0636\u0628\u0637 \u06a9\u0631\u062f \u06a9\u0647 \u0635\u0628\u062d \u062d\u0631\u0641\u0634 \u0631\u0627 \u062b\u0627\u0628\u062a \u06a9\u0646\u062f\u2026<br \/>\n\u0627\u0645\u0627 \u0635\u0628\u062d \u067e\u06cc\u0631 \u0632\u0646 \u062f\u06cc\u06af\u0631 \u0647\u0631\u06af\u0632 \u0628\u06cc\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0646\u0634\u062f\u2026<br \/>\n\u0648 \u0622\u0646 \u0635\u062f\u0627\u06cc \u0636\u0628\u0637 \u0634\u062f\u0647 \u0644\u0627 \u0644\u0627\u06cc\u06cc \u0647\u0631 \u0634\u0628 \u067e\u06cc\u0631 \u0645\u0631\u062f \u0634\u0640\u0640\u0640\u062f\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A old man always complained about his wife&#8217;s snoring.<\/p>\n<p>The old woman never\u00a0accepted it.<\/p>\n<p>One night the old man\u00a0made a recording\u00a0so that he could prove his point the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>But the old woman never woke\u00a0up.<\/p>\n<p>And that recording has become the old man&#8217;s lullaby, every night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Go\u00a0get a tissue if you need to, I&#8217;ll wait.)<\/p>\n<p>There is a wealth of material out there for language learning, but finding them is always serendipitous. In this case, I saw a little story\/parable on Facebook, and typed a phrase from it into Google.\u00a0One of the results was this collection of stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brief post\u00a0is just to share a neat web site, which has a great little collection of short, short\u00a0Persian stories. These are not \u201cshort stories\u201d as in ten pages, but \u201cshort stories\u201d as in one paragraph. Story 01 Here is a taste, appropriate for Valentine&#8217;s Day: \u067e\u06cc\u0631 \u0645\u0631\u062f \u0627\u0632 \u0635\u062f\u0627\u06cc \u062e\u0631 \u0648 \u067e\u0641 \u067e\u06cc\u0631 \u0632\u0646 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-learning","category-new-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}