Persian Script Hacking

Judith Meyer is a polyglot and language course developer and consultant with an MA in Romance Languages and Computational Linguistics. She speaks 14 languages, including Modern Greek, Chinese and Swahili, and she has successfully learned a number of foreign writing systems. Judith loves to help others succeed in their language-learning and encourages anyone to give it a try. She is the founder of the Polyglot Gathering, one of the largest conferences for polyglots and language bloggers. In addition to authoring the Script Hacking series, she is also co-author of Complete Esperanto.

This book is absolutely brilliant. I've previously tried to study Persian, but never really picked up how to read the script at all. After spending a few hours with this book over a few days, I can read words! The book not only explains the script itself, including every letter, but also what sounds are or are not written and why. There are other handy hints and tips, such as how to distinguish Persian from Arabic almost at a glance.