New Farsi books

The head of the Farsi department at Jamiatuz Zahra has written some kick-ass new Farsi books. From the 3rd book (Kitabe Sevom) onwards, the books have been re-written with a new format and are tonnes better than the previous ones.
Each dars (lesson) has several sections. The dars starts off with the main passage, which can vary from a poem to a story of a Prophet or simple things like the importance of water. I like the sciency ones, cos you can blag the summaries the next day in class! The new words are translated at the bottom of the passage into Farsi. They’re really big on this – learning the Farsi translation of words in Farsi! For someone like me, who thinks in English, it means I have to learn each word 3 times – twice in Farsi and once in English!
The next section is Dastoore Zaban which means laws of language or grammar. This is followed by loads of exercises (fill in the blanks, questions etc) to reinforce the content of the passage and the grammar rule.
There’s also a passge to read through with the conversation teacher, as well as a dars for listening. The reading passage is usually connected to the main dars in some way. The last lesson we covered, the main passage was about Prophet Abraham and the reading passage was a story from his life. The last 2 sections are for free study (not testable, but annoying, is usually more interesting the actual dars itself) and some kind of proverb, saying or prayer – which the teachers love, so we read in class!
As cool as the new books are, they are also slightly annoying as they take almost 3-4hours of self study at home each night :-(