Speak Lesson 13 | How to Host or Be Hosted (especially when it involves chai)
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 4 August 2011
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
in this lesson, we are going to cover the concept of being hosted, either at someone's house or at an establishment. Iranians love to host people. For instance, when you visit someone of Persian decent at their home, they will most likely immediately offer you tea. So in this lesson we learn vocabulary that is associated with hosting or being hosted, including the names of different beverages, and how to offer things to guest or accept offerings.
KEY CONCEPTS:
- Names of beverages you'll be offered in an Iranian household (hint, chāi is at the top of the list)
- The names of alcoholic beverages
- How to offer something when you are hosting
- How to accept or decline an offer when being hosted
- Some polite vocabulary such as thank you (merci) and please (lotfan)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 13. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya and Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking to learn conversational Persian. |
| 0:15.3 | 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. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello everyone. We'd like to welcome you back to Chai and Conversation. |
| 0:54.0 | We're on lesson 13 of the second back to Chai and Conversation. We're on lesson 13 of the second |
| 0:55.8 | unit of Chai and Conversation. As you know, in Unit 2, we are dealing with language that you will |
| 1:01.9 | use in practical situations. So far, we've learned how to deal with situations in which we can't |
| 1:07.6 | perfectly understand the language. We've gone over numbers and dates and months, |
| 1:12.6 | and now we're going to cover what to do when you go to someone's house and have to deal with Taruf. |
| 1:17.6 | If you've been around Iranians enough, you've had to deal with Taraf whether you know it or not. |
| 1:23.6 | There are many different forms of Taraf, but basically it's the ritual of etiquette that is ingrained in the Iranian culture. |
| 1:31.6 | A few weeks ago, we published a wonderful podcast called This American Life that did a nice and short piece about the intricacies of Taruf. |
| 1:39.4 | You can look it up on our website. |
| 1:41.9 | But in today's lesson, we are going to deal with it in the context of |
| 1:45.0 | going to someone's house and being offered something to drink. As we mention every week, |
| 1:50.6 | this podcast is only one part of Chai in Conversation. Bonus materials, including PDF guides and |
| 1:57.4 | enhanced podcasts, can be found on our website at www.com. |
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