Yavar Dehghani is a self published author, a linguist and lecturer in Iranian languages including Persian (Farsi & Dari), Pashto, and Turkic languages including Azari and Turkish. He completed his Ph D in General Linguistics in La Trobe University in Melbourne in 1999. His dissertation was the study of comparative grammars of Persian, Azari, Turkish and English. He has been a lecturer in Persian Linguistics, Persian as a second language and English as a second language for several years in universities. Yavar is an Accredited translator of the National Australian Authority for Translators & Interpreters (NAATI), and has done freelance translation in Iranian languages with different translation agencies locally and internationally. Yavar has written and published books on grammar and phrasebooks and dictionaries on these languages and presented many papers on language issues and reviewed conference papers and supervised postgraduate theses on languages. He received the Australian Day Medallion for developing and managing courses in a second language. He has been arguing and applying a second language learning approach based on comparative grammar. That is, in learning a second language one should become familiar with the grammatical structure of both languages and their similarities and differences. Through this knowledge, one learn the second language efficiently and in a time effective way.
Yavar is a multilingual and speaks English, Persian (Farsi & Dari), Pashto, Azari, and Turkish and understands Arabic. Being exposed to many languages and cultures, he has always been interested in difference in languages and cultures of different parts of the world. A Martian Earthly Dictionary is the result of such an experience.
