Speak Lesson 61 | Meeting on the Street
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson, we learn some phrases that could be useful when talking to people on the street and how to talk briefly about some routine daily activities.
We also introduce Vijay, his mixtape, and his YouTube playlist, which you can find here!
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, Lesson 61. Hello everyone. |
| 0:33.8 | Salome Bahamaghi and welcome to lesson 61 of Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm your host, Leila, and it has been a little while since we've done these speak lessons. |
| 0:46.1 | So you might have noticed Matt looks a little different now. |
| 0:51.3 | Just kidding, just kidding. |
| 0:53.2 | This is Vijay, and I'm going to introduce him. |
| 0:57.5 | Vijay, welcome to the program. |
| 0:59.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:00.7 | Haley Baddud. |
| 1:02.1 | So Matt is still alive and well. |
| 1:05.2 | He is now a full-fledged anesthesiologist. |
| 1:08.4 | He is working here in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:13.0 | This is, we're recording this, |
| 1:19.9 | Vijay and I, 15 years after we recorded that first Chying Conversation episode. So a lot has changed since then. Matt is pursuing other things. And now Vijay has been with our team for |
| 1:26.0 | about three years now, Two, three years now. |
| 1:28.5 | I lose track of time. |
| 1:29.9 | Two, almost. Yeah. Okay. Well, wonderful. So, Vij, can you tell us a bit about yourself, introduce yourself, where you live, and what you do? Sure. Salambehambe Haigee. My name's Vijay. Esbe mad Vijay has. I'm a linguist, so I'm really interested in learning languages, |
| 1:45.8 | but also I'm a polyglot, so I learn languages for their own sake as well, |
| 1:50.5 | but I'm interested in the structure of language, all kinds of things related to language. |
| 1:55.2 | And so, you know, since I study all kinds of languages, why not Persian as well, right? |
| 1:59.7 | And, you know, they're all connected. |
| 2:02.1 | So, you know, I think another part of my interest in Persian comes from the fact that my family's |
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