Learn Persian with Chaiin Conversation, Rumi's beautiful poem, Divanovna.

In the first introduction lesson for this poem, I talked to musician Fadishafinuri, and we went over a lot.

We learned about the overall meaning of the poem and talked about its musicality.

We also talked about the rhythm and the expression of the poem.

In this lesson, I'm going to go over just the very first two lines of the poem and really go through the individual words and phrases in the first two

lines. We'll go over how to use these words and phrases in everyday conversation and use them to

build your conversational Persian vocabulary. I want to take these lessons nice and slowly so you

learn a little bit of the poem at a time. When I say a word and phrase in this lesson,

I want you to repeat it out loud with me.

Make it a point to start memorizing the sections that we learn

as you listen to these lessons.

So first, we're going to listen to the first two lines of the poem

as read by Fadid.

I let's raqa kun, Aishu, divanisho, d'iwanisho lines of the poem as read by Farid.

I want to begin by going over the meaning of divanishu, and specifically sh sure, since it shows up so much in this poem.

Even in the next line where we see the phrase parvonisho, we hear that word again.

So divanisho, although Fatty translated it as be crazy in his translation,

means something closer to become crazy, become mad.

So the word divanet means crazy or mad, as in madness.

And shoh is short for beshu, which is a common word for become.

And it's in the second person informal.

And it's a commanding word.

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