Speak Lesson 11 | How to Speak About the Languages You Know
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
4.9 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2011
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When talking to someone in something other than your native language, it sometimes helps to know what other languages they speak. This not only helps you to learn more about a person, but can also potentially give you insight into other things you have in common with them. In this Persian / Farsi lesson, we learn how to talk about the languages we can speak, learn the words for different languages, and learn to speak about the proficiency with with we speak certain languages. Also, importantly, we learn how to tell people to slow down if they're speaking too fast for us to understand.
KEY CONCEPTS:
- Telling others which languages we can speak
- Telling others the proficiency with which we can speak those languages
- The names for different popular languages
- Ask others to slow down when speaking
- Ask others how to say something in Persian
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 11. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya and Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking to learn conversational Persian. |
| 0:15.0 | My name is Leila and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.3 | And my name is Matt and I will be learning Persian along with you. |
| 0:22.6 | Chaya Conversation will teach you conversational Persian in weekly lessons of about 15 minutes each. |
| 0:28.6 | If you know anything about Iranians, they don't do anything without first grabbing a cup of tea, |
| 0:33.6 | or as they call it, Chai. |
| 0:36.6 | So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian language. |
| 0:48.9 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Chai and Conversation. |
| 0:53.4 | Ismaman Leilaast and I am the teacher for the course. |
| 0:57.5 | Ismaman Matt Hest? |
| 0:59.3 | And I am the student in this course. |
| 1:01.5 | We hope that you've been enjoying the past few lessons of Chai and Conversation. |
| 1:05.4 | If you're new to the program, welcome. |
| 1:08.5 | As many of you know, Chai in Conversation is the first podcast created specifically for teaching |
| 1:14.6 | Persian to beginners. |
| 1:16.6 | Matt was a beginner to the Persian language when he started and he's come a long way since then. |
| 1:21.6 | Hopefully you've been joining along on the journey with him. |
| 1:24.6 | If you're new to the program, we'd like to welcome you. |
| 1:26.6 | You can download our first few programs by going to our website at chai andconversation.com, |
| 1:33.8 | with chai spelled C-H-A-I. |
| 1:37.3 | We are now at lesson 11, and we are marking what we are calling part 2 of Chai and Conversation. |
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