{"id":36129,"date":"2015-06-29T12:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=36129"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:55:32","slug":"persian-language-class-to-be-offered-online-in-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/29\/persian-language-class-to-be-offered-online-in-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Persian language class to be offered online in the fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_36132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36132\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/manoa-persian-language.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/manoa-persian-language.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/manoa-persian-language.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/manoa-persian-language-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miniature painting from Isfahan, Iran. Photo by Maseeh Ganjali<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beginning in the fall of 2015, Persian language will be offered as an online course for the first time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>. <abbr>PERS<\/abbr> 101 is designed for distance learning, attracting learners who do not have Persian instruction at their universities.<\/p>\n<p>Persian is the official and national language of Iran, and standard Modern Persian is spoken in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Persian language belongs to the West Iranian language group, a subgrouping of Indo-Iranian languages, which is part of the Indo-European language family. The two dialects of Persian are Tajiki and Dari, which are spoken in Tajikistan and Afghanistan, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ipll.manoa.hawaii.edu\/persian\/\">Persian Language, Linguistics and Culture Program<\/a> is an initiative made possible by a grant from, and in partnership with, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roshan-institute.org\/\">Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/ipll.manoa.hawaii.edu\/persian\/\">Persian Language and Literature website<\/a> or contact Ladan Hamedani via <a href=\"mailto:hamedani@hawaii.edu\">email<\/a> or (808) 956-3552.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa to offer first ever online Persian language course in fall 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[163,134,214,9],"class_list":["post-36129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-languages-linguistics-and-literature","tag-international","tag-language","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36129"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146372,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129\/revisions\/146372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}