Speak Lesson 65 | Tārof at a Gallery
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
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Summary
In this lesson, we learn some examples of tārof appropriate for talking to older people and see some examples in a conversation at an art gallery.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chaiin Conversation. |
| 0:02.7 | Lesson 65, Taruf at a Gallery. Welcome to |
| 0:33.6 | Welcome to Lesson 65 of Learned Persian |
| 0:38.5 | with Chai and Conversation. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm joined today by Vijay. |
| 0:42.4 | Salam, Vijay. |
| 0:43.6 | Salam, Leila. |
| 0:45.0 | Hanous, good. |
| 0:46.2 | Hanos, good. |
| 0:47.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:47.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:48.9 | Salam. |
| 0:49.6 | Hello. |
| 0:52.4 | As we learned. |
| 0:59.8 | As we learned. As I learned, as he learned in a previous lesson. |
| 1:06.2 | So today we're going to, speaking of Ruehameh, we're going to learn more about Tarof. |
| 1:09.0 | So as we're getting into more advanced vocabulary, |
| 1:12.5 | Tarof is a big part of how we converse in the Persian language. It comes up in every single conversation. It's really hard to have a conversation |
| 1:17.7 | in Persian without using Tadov. So it's really important to know these phrases and what better way |
| 1:22.7 | to learn than to listen to them in conversation. So we're going to go ahead and listen to this full dialogue, and then we're going to go over it bit by bit as we always do. So are you ready, BJ? I'm ready. Ali. Let's get into the dialogue. Salam, Kahnem, Nikzad. Salam, Ostad. Come on. Wow. I've got it. Vakshared you. Hmm, we're Okay, how much of the where you should start? Befarmine, I'm from you maurephi to you maurephi me-can- Alright, so listen to it from the top, from the very beginning. Salam, Khad Okay, so first he says, is? Hello, Hannaeckxad. Salam, Khanaughan Nixad. |
| 2:02.6 | So as we can see here already, he's saying, |
| 2:07.4 | Salam, Miss Nixot, so he's speaking to her formally. |
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