Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, Lesson 57.

Hello and welcome to Lesson 57 of Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation.

We're so glad you've joined us.

We have a Chai and Conversation email list, which if you're not on it, go to our website to sign up.

When you sign up, you receive a series of emails I've written over the course of a few weeks.

In one of the emails, I ask

why you're learning the Persian language. We receive tons of replies to this email, but I read

an answer each and every one of them. So in reading these emails, I've come to learn that the

number one reason people listen to our podcast is for the same reasons you're learning the Persian

language, Matt. They've fallen in love with someone who speaks Persian.

There are people learning for other reasons as well,

but those in relationships with Iranians make up a large percentage of our listeners.

For this reason, we think it's a good idea to spend this entire lesson going over a topic

many of you hope to have to know about sooner or later.

And that is the topic of Iranian wedding customs. Now, Matt, you and Ladan, as I recall,

had a Persian-style wedding. It's true. We had a Persian ceremony complete with the table,

the sofriya, aft, and a reception with plenty of Iranian dance music.

Yeah, I remember it well.

So the thing Matt just mentioned, Sofrey Art, is a big part of the reception.

So we'll go over that too.

But first, let's begin with the basics.

We learned in lesson 19 of Chaiang Conversation, a lot of the language of love and relationships.

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