Speak Lesson 41 | Telephoning and Other Structured Infinitives
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 30 January 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson, we go over some 'structured infinitive sentences'. These are verb structures that include all parts you need to make a full sentence within them. The four verbs we focus on are 'I telephoned ______', 'I am happy with ______', 'I am angry with _______', and 'I am waiting for _______'.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 41. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chai in Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking to learn conversational Persian. |
| 0:15.0 | My name is Leila and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.0 | 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, |
| 0:33.6 | 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 and welcome to the fifth unit of Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation. |
| 0:55.2 | We're coming to you from Dallas, Texas, which as you learn in Lesson 40, is where Matt lives now that he is full time in medical school. |
| 1:03.2 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:04.6 | How's it going with school and the new baby and everything, Matt? |
| 1:08.2 | Good, lots of changes and adjusting, but it's an exciting time. |
| 1:12.8 | Baby chemia is growing very quickly, and of course, it's very fun to see. |
| 1:18.0 | Wonderful. And listeners, we congratulate everyone who's made it this far into the program. |
| 1:23.9 | As you all know, Lesson 40 presented the conclusion of what we're calling Volume 1 of Chaiang |
| 1:29.3 | Conversation. Volume 1 was a complete introduction to the Persian language, throwing the listener |
| 1:34.9 | into conversational speech from the first lesson. Now we are at the intermediate stage of |
| 1:40.5 | learning. You should have a good foundation of the Persian language and you are now |
| 1:44.5 | ready to get even deeper into it. How are you feeling about your knowledge of the Persian |
| 1:49.1 | language right now, Matt? Well, I definitely feel like I can understand a good amount of what my |
| 1:53.8 | wife's family says when they're having conversations. In the beginning, I felt completely lost |
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