Speak Lesson 29 | More Present Continuous and Imperatives (!)
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 1 October 2012
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Lesson 29 teaches how to emphasize the present continuous tense and how to form imperative statements.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, Lesson 29. |
| 0:07.8 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya and Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking |
| 0:13.5 | to learn conversational Persian. My name is Leila, and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.8 | And my name is Matt, and I will be learning Persian along with you. |
| 0:23.2 | Chaya Conversation will teach you conversational Persian in weekly lessons of about 15 minutes each. |
| 0:29.2 | If you know anything about Iranians, they don't do anything without first grabbing a cup of tea, |
| 0:34.8 | or as they call it, chai. |
| 0:37.3 | 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. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chai in Conversation. |
| 0:56.0 | We're so glad that you've joined us. |
| 1:02.5 | Lesson 29 is the last lesson in Unit 3 of Chai and Conversation, the grammar unit. |
| 1:09.4 | In this unit, we've been going over all sorts of different grammar topics, including many of the tenses of the Persian language. |
| 1:14.1 | In this lesson, we're going to go over the present continuous tense and learn about imperative verb. |
| 1:17.3 | Hopefully you've been keeping up with everything we've been learning. |
| 1:20.4 | But if not, remember that you can always find |
| 1:23.1 | all of our previous lessons and bonus materials on the website |
| 1:26.9 | at www.chacha and conversation.com |
| 1:31.4 | with Chai spelled C-H-A-I. |
| 1:35.8 | And if you've missed it over the past few weeks, we posted a new cultural video about the concept of taruf. |
| 1:42.0 | It's on our website and on YouTube |
| 1:44.2 | and features Matt acting out |
| 1:46.3 | several different cultural scenarios. |
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