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Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Speak Lesson 66 | Tārof When Welcoming Guests

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Chai & Conversation

Iran, Conversation, Persian, Chai, Language Learning, Farsi, Courses, Education

4.9548 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this lesson, we continue to explore examples of tārof relevant in situations where we have guests at our houses.

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0:00.0

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation.

0:02.8

Lesson 66.

0:04.9

Tadof when welcoming guests. Hello and welcome to lesson 66 of Learn Persian with Chying Conversation.

0:40.2

We're doing our dialogue series today and I'm joined by my colleague Vijay.

0:44.3

Salam Vijay Jan.

0:45.5

Salam Leila, Jan.

0:46.6

How's your chateurre?

0:48.6

Thank you.

0:49.4

I'm very.

0:50.1

How do you?

0:51.3

I'm good.

0:52.5

Salam in your mahet.

1:17.6

Well, amazing. Vijay is putting us in the mood of Taurup. So Salam Be Ruehya, is a very common expression. Vij, do you want to explain it? Yeah, so it was an expression that we saw in, I think, our second lesson from the ones that we just recorded, it just basically means, like, nice to see you. But it's literally hello to your moon-like face.

1:28.0

That's right. And it's a common expression. You can use it among friends, as BJ just did. And we're here today. I want to point out with our chai's. Hopefully you all have your chai ready to listen to this lesson as well. The point of these lessons is that you can be

1:32.7

drinking one cup of chai and listen to the entire lesson. They're short and sweet and good for

1:38.7

a chaii break. But if we want to give a little preface to today's lesson, VJ? Sure, absolutely. So in our last lesson, we had a dialogue that was all taught off.

1:49.9

In this one, we have another dialogue that's almost all taught off, but even longer.

1:55.4

So we have even more tariff than we had in the last dialogue.

1:59.7

Okay, good. And it's not an exaggeration because Iranians could have a five to ten minute conversation

2:05.2

just using Tadov back and forth.

2:07.0

Absolutely.

2:07.7

Absolutely.

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