Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, Lesson 21.

Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking to learn conversational Persian.

My name is Leila, and I'll be your teacher for the course.

And my name is Matt, and I will be learning Persian along with you.

Chaya Conversation will teach you conversational Persian in weekly lessons of about 15 minutes each.

If you know anything about Iranians, they don't do anything without first grabbing a cup of tea,

or as they call it, chai.

So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian language.

Hello and welcome to the first lesson of Unit 3 of Chaiyan Conversation.

Thank you so much for joining us.

As we mentioned, Unit 3 will take a slightly different approach from the previous lessons.

In the next 10 lessons, we will be going over technicalities of conversational Persian.

What makes Chaiian conversation different from other Persian learning programs is that we are focusing solely on conversational Persian.

The Persian language is somewhat extreme in the differences when it is written versus when it is spoken in colloquial conversation.

In order to speak and understand Persian on a conversational level, it's important to know

purely conversational Persian.

It's important to have a grasp of the grammar of the Persian language in order to understand

why we say the things we do.

However, please remember that language is all about communication.

Don't get too bogged down with the grammatical aspect of it. Hopefully

these lessons will cause you to be an even better speaker. In the next unit of Chai in conversation,

we will be having dialogues in the Persian language. You will be surprised as to how much you

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