Speak Lesson 17 | How to Describe Things (Includes List of All the Colors)
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 29 October 2011
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this Persian/Farsi lesson, we learn all about how to describe things. We begin with the colors in the Persian language:
- black seeyāh سیاه
- white sefeed سِفید
- red sorkh سُرخ ghermez قِرمِز
- orange nāranjee نارَنجی
- yellow zard زَرد
- green sabz سَبز
- blue ābee آبی
- purple banafsh بَنَفش
- brown ghahveyee قَهوِیی
After that, we go over some common descriptive words, and use them to describe chickens specifically. The descriptive words we go over include:
- big
- small
- quick
- slow
- nice looking
- ugly
- expensive
- cheap
And more! We go over a dialogue in which we talk about expensive cars.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 17. |
| 0:07.5 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya in Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking to learn conversational Persian. |
| 0:15.5 | My name is Leila and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.5 | And my name is Matt and I will be learning Persian along with you. |
| 0:22.7 | Chaya Conversation will teach you conversational Persian in weekly lessons of about 15 minutes each. |
| 0:28.8 | 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. |
| 0:36.6 | So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian language. |
| 0:48.8 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Chai and Conversation. |
| 0:52.9 | We are now in Unit 2 of the lessons, |
| 0:55.2 | and we are continuing to build up our vocabulary and conversational skills. |
| 0:59.1 | We've been talking a lot about food lately, |
| 1:02.0 | and we still have a bit more to cover on that topic. |
| 1:04.7 | But I thought we'd change gears for a bit this lesson |
| 1:07.0 | and learn another important part of language learning, |
| 1:10.4 | how to describe things. |
| 1:12.3 | In this lesson, we'll be going over some frequently used adjectives and end it with a dialogue |
| 1:17.4 | that deals with choosing a car. |
| 1:19.9 | As always, you'll find bonus materials for this lesson and all the other lessons on our |
| 1:24.5 | website at chai and conversation.com with chai spelled c h a i but enough of that for now |
| 1:32.9 | matt are you ready to begin the lesson ready great then let's begin to learn persian with chai and |
| 1:41.0 | conversation so matt you know this already with Chai and Conversation. |
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