Speak Lesson 15 | How to Talk to People in a Formal Manner, and More on Hosting and Being Hosted
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 29 September 2011
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Continuing with the theme of hosting and being hosted, the theme of this Persian / Farsi lesson is a visit to the in-laws on a Saturday afternoon. We follow Matt on a hypothetical visit to his in-laws house, and a potential conversation as they try to serve him food. We also talk about formal speech- as we've said before, Persian culture errs on the side of formality, especially when talking to elders. Because there's an informal and formal way of addressing 'you', it's very important to choose the correct form, especially when dealing with the in-laws. For this reason, we'll go over how to ask questions in a formal way, and speaking respectfully. This will get you a lot of points with you Iranian in-laws. We also go over how to talk about whether or not we are hungry or thirsty, because as you may know, Iranians LOVE to feed people and often will not take 'no' for an answer.
KEY CONCEPTS:
- More about the formal and informal forms of 'you'
- Formal phrases to use with in-laws
- How to 'tarof' by asking someone to 'help themselves' or say 'please'
- Talking about hunger or thirst
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 15. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya in Conversation, |
| 0:11.0 | 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. |
| 0:18.0 | And my name is Matt and I will be learning Persian along with you. |
| 0:22.8 | Chaya Conversation will teach you conversational Persian in weekly lessons of about 15 minutes each. |
| 0:28.7 | If you know anything about Iranians, they don't do anything without first grabbing a cup of tea, |
| 0:34.5 | or as they call it, chai. |
| 0:36.9 | So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian language. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the 15th episode of Chai and Conversation. |
| 0:55.9 | We've been on a bit of a summer hiatus, but we are back now to the bi-weekly schedule. |
| 1:01.7 | In the 13th episode, we began learning about being hosted or hosting. |
| 1:06.0 | Today we're going to continue along with the same thread with more vocabulary that deals with hosting |
| 1:10.7 | and talk a bit |
| 1:11.7 | more about formal speech. We'll begin with a short dialogue and build up our vocabulary from there. |
| 1:17.7 | As always, this podcast is only one part of Chai in Conversation. Go to our website at www. |
| 1:25.0 | chai and conversation.com with Chai and Conversation.com. |
| 1:28.7 | With Chai spelled C-H-A-I, for bonus materials you can use to enhance your learning |
| 1:34.3 | experience. |
| 1:35.4 | These include transcripts of the program with the words and phrases we learned, written |
| 1:39.1 | phonetically in English, so that you can follow along and make sure you're understanding |
| 1:42.9 | the words and phrases correctly. |
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