Speak Lesson 4 | How to Say Where You Live, and Answer Simple Questions
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 7 February 2011
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this Persian (Farsi) lesson, we review all past lesson materials. You'll have a chance to test out your comprehension of the vocabulary learned, and see if you're able to use the words and phrases in the correct context.We also learn the words needed to answer simple questions in the Persian language- essential when having any casual conversation! These words are:
- Yes (balé)
- Yeah- more informal (āré)
- No (na)
Then we learn how to say where we live (and if it’s different than where we are from), and how to answer some simple questions. The phrases in this section include:
- I am from ___________
- I am not from _________
- I live in ______________
- Where do you live?
- I am from _______________ but now I live in ______________
As always, we'll go over several potential conversations you could have using just this vocabulary.In addition, we learn that in the Persian language, it's not necessary to state the subject in the sentence. The subject is understood based on how you conjugate the verb in the sentence. For instance, instead of saying 'man az Iran hastam' (meaning I am from Iran), you could simply say 'az Iran hastam'. The listener can tell from the conjugation of the word 'hastam' that the sentence is referring to the first person singular, so you can drop man (meaning I).
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 4. |
| 0:07.3 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya and Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking to learn conversational Persian. |
| 0:15.1 | My name is Leila and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.3 | 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, or as they call it, |
| 0:35.6 | Chai. |
| 0:36.6 | So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian |
| 0:42.4 | language. Hello and welcome back to Chai in conversation. With such a lack of effective learning materials out there for people who want to learn to speak Persian, |
| 0:59.6 | we hope that through this podcast we are providing you an invaluable resource to gain an understanding into Persian culture. |
| 1:07.0 | And now, Farsi Yad Begirim. This means let's learn some Persian. Farsi Yad Begirim. This means, let's learn some Persian. |
| 1:13.3 | Farsi Yad Begirim. |
| 1:23.8 | In the past few weeks, we've been covering quite a number of words and phrases that will help you get started off in Persian. |
| 1:31.5 | We've been learning how to greet people, how to bid them farewell, as well as how to introduce yourself, |
| 1:37.8 | in different forms of you, and how to ask people where they're from, and how to answer with where you're from. |
| 1:44.1 | We are going to review some |
| 1:45.6 | of that to make sure that we have a good understanding and memory of what we've learned. Now, Matt, |
| 1:51.4 | do you remember how to say hello? Salam. That's right. And as Matt is answering, you should be |
| 1:59.9 | seeing if you can remember the words and answer |
| 2:02.4 | on your own as well. |
| 2:04.9 | So Salom is indeed hello. |
| 2:08.2 | And what about good morning? |
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