Speak Lesson 19 | How to Talk About Love and Friendship
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 8 December 2011
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this Persian/Farsi lesson, we learn how to talk about love and friendship. We learn common terms of endearment, how to compliment a loved one, and how to talk about your marital status. We also learn how to say 'I love you' in Farsi, which might be a bit more complicated than you would think. There's not a direct translation of 'I love you.' Rather, you could say 'I am in love with you' (man āsheghetam), or 'I like you' (doostet dāram) which often gets used in the place of 'I love you'. The most common term of endearment in the Persian language is jān or joon (either one works). This is often said after a loved one's name. For instance, if you are talking to your friend named Sarah, you could call them 'Sarah joon' to show them that you really care for them. You could also use it to call a family member. For instance, the word for maternal uncle in Persian is dāyee. Uncles are often called 'dāyee joon' meaning dear uncle.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 19. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya and Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking |
| 0:13.4 | to learn conversational Persian. My name is Leila and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.7 | 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, |
| 0:34.6 | or as they call it, Chai. |
| 0:36.6 | So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian language. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello everyone and welcome back to learn Persian with Chai and Conversation. |
| 0:55.6 | You've made it to Lesson 19, the last lesson of Unit 2 of Chai and Conversation. |
| 1:02.1 | Lesson 20 will be a review of all the material we've learned in this unit. |
| 1:06.4 | Please do remember that all our previous lessons and bonus materials can be found on our website |
| 1:11.2 | at chaianconversation.com with chai spelled c h a i in the very first lesson of chai |
| 1:18.9 | we listed several reasons you might have for wanting to learn the persian language since then |
| 1:25.3 | we have received many personal emails from you are listeners on |
| 1:28.7 | specific reasons that you are learning. The reasons vary widely, but many of you have had some |
| 1:34.2 | sort of personal connection with a Persian speaker. Either you're in a relationship with a Persian |
| 1:39.2 | speaking person, or you have close friends or acquaintances who are Persian speakers, and you would like to be |
| 1:44.9 | able to communicate with them in Persian. |
| 1:47.0 | The ultimate goal of Chaiian conversation is to teach you conversational skills so that you can |
| 1:51.8 | communicate more effectively with others. |
| 1:54.2 | So in this lesson, we would like to learn how to express feelings of love and friendship. |
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