Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, Lesson 28.

Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya 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 of tea, or as they call it, chai. So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian language.

Welcome back to learn Persian with Chai and conversation.

Only two more lessons to go in our grammar series.

Lesson 30 will be a comprehensive review of everything we've learned so far.

As you know, you can find our previous lessons and bonus materials at chaionconversation.com

with Chaya is spelled C-H-A-I.

Bonus materials include all the verbs we've been learning with all their conjugations spelled

out for you and easy to understand phonetic letters.

There's also videos and all of our previous lessons on the website.

But enough of that for now.

Matt, are you ready to begin learning?

Ready.

Great. Then let's begin to learn Persian with Chai and Conversation.

So last week we learned the present simple tense. We learned that depending on the context, present simple tense can either be used to talk about things you are doing in the present or in the near future.

However, the present simple tense can also be used to talk about things that are done habitually,

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