Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, Lesson 56.

Hello and welcome to Lesson 56 of Chai and Conversation.

We're so glad you've joined us.

In this unit, we're going over vocabulary you'll use in different social situations in the Persian language,

probably the main reason you're learning the language in the first place.

In several lessons this unit, we've covered being hosted.

However, there's another situation many of you are probably in quite often that we haven't really covered extensively, and that is being on the phone.

Now, Matt, having lived with Ladan, you probably know that Iranians call each other all the time.

Yes, definitely.

Laden talks to her mom on the phone every day, even though they probably see each other as often.

Right. Iranians love to keep in touch. So we covered a little bit of this in the dialogue series,

but what is the word used when picking up the phone? Do you remember Matt or have you heard this before?

Yes, I believe it's alo.

Exactly, alo. Exactly.

Allo.

Of course, this is a French word, but we've adopted it, and it's the most widely used greeting.

So when someone calls, you pick up the phone and say,

Hello?

Hello?

Now, before we get further, let's do a little dialogue of what a typical opening of a phone conversation would be like if I called Matt.

So I'll start.

Ring-ring.

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