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Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Speak Lesson 42 | The Simple Subjunctive

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Chai & Conversation

Iran, Conversation, Persian, Chai, Language Learning, Farsi, Courses, Education

4.9548 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This lesson teaches the simple subjunctive, which will allow you to take definite sentences like 'I am going to the movies tonight' to less definite ones like 'I could go to the movies tonight'.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 42.

0:07.5

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

0:15.5

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

0:18.5

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,

0:34.6

or as they call it, Chai.

0:36.6

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

0:49.8

Hello and welcome to the 42nd lesson of Learn Persian with Trying Conversation.

0:55.0

In this lesson, we're going to be talking about this simple, subjunctive tense.

0:59.6

This will allow us to communicate in a different way than we were before.

1:03.6

For instance, up to this point, we could only say simple things like,

1:07.3

Tonight I'm going to the cinema.

1:09.3

However, what if we want to say,

1:12.5

tonight I want to go to the cinema?

1:15.0

This will allow us to do just that.

1:18.9

We got a taste for this type of sentence structure in one of the dialogues,

1:20.5

the one where the couple were trying to decide

1:22.6

what to do in the evening.

1:24.1

That's correct.

1:25.2

So at that point, we learn the sentence structure,

1:27.3

and now we're

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