Speak Lesson 64 | Transportation (Vocabulary Sprint)
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this Persian/ Farsi lesson, Leyla and her husband Chris go over different vocabulary associated with the topic of transportation, which we are referring to as 'coming and going'- raft ō āmad. We discuss different modes of transportation including:
- Bicycle - docharkhé
- Car - māsheen
- Bus - otoboos
- Taxi - tāxee Metro - metrõ
- Airplane - havāpaymā
- Motorcycle - motorcyclet
We also go over the vocabulary for walking and getting around in general. This lesson is part of our Persian/ Farsi vocabulary sprint series, so we focus on transportation as a theme and learn as many words around the topic as we can.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 81. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to Lesson of Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation. |
| 0:27.0 | So 81 is part of our unit of vocabulary sprints, and I'm joined here by my husband Chris, |
| 0:33.2 | Saddam Chris. |
| 0:34.0 | Salam. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello to all the Chiant Conversation listeners out there. |
| 0:42.3 | And so far in our vocabulary sprints, we've gone over colors, we've gone over animals, we've gone over the time and date, and we had a special lesson on Nauru's. |
| 0:47.3 | And now we're going to cover one of my favorite topics, and that is words that have to do with |
| 0:53.3 | transportation. |
| 0:54.8 | Transportation is super important. |
| 0:56.7 | We live in Austin, Texas, and we are struggling as a city with our transportation. |
| 1:02.6 | For sure. |
| 1:03.5 | And we have some strong opinions about this. |
| 1:07.3 | And, you know, when you're learning a language or when kids are learning a language, a lot of times they're super excited about learning words about moving machines like automobiles and buses and trains. |
| 1:19.0 | So it's a good topic to cover. |
| 1:20.8 | But it's also something that we all deal with every single day. |
| 1:24.7 | It's true. |
| 1:25.2 | And to our listeners out there who are in big metroplexes and have |
| 1:31.0 | subways and great public transportation, you're lucky and that's wonderful. To our listeners out |
| 1:38.0 | there who live in the suburbs or in the country where the idea of taking a subway somewhere |
| 1:43.4 | would be ridiculous. |
| 1:45.0 | That's another, you know, you guys are struggling with your own forms of transportation. |
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