Speak Lesson 69 | Sports (Vocabulary Sprint)
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 27 June 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This Persian (Farsi) lesson is all about the wonderful words of sports- or varzesh in Persian. Varzesh literally means physical exercise, but it's the word used for sports as well. Many of the words for different sports in the Persian language come directly from the western word, but some of them are different. The most common sport in Iran (and in many, many parts of the world) is soccer, which in Persian is footbāl. The sport we know of as 'football' in the United States is called footbāl āmrikāyee (American football) in Persian. Listen to the full lesson in order to learn the words for many team and individual sports.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chying Conversation, Lesson 86. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello and welcome to lesson 86 of Chying Conversation. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Leila and I'm joined by my husband Chris. |
| 0:25.0 | Salam, Chris. |
| 0:25.7 | Salam. |
| 0:26.3 | This is Chris. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Leila's husband. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm learning Persian along with you guys. |
| 0:30.4 | And today we have a very fun topic for our, as you know, we're in the vocabulary sprint unit. |
| 0:36.6 | We have a very fun topic and that is the topic of sports or varzish. |
| 0:42.3 | Varzesh. |
| 0:43.4 | Who doesn't love some varzesh? |
| 0:46.9 | And we actually get a lot of, I've asked for recommendations for this unit, |
| 0:51.6 | and we got a lot of people asking us to say the different words for sports. |
| 0:55.6 | So this was a long overdue lesson. |
| 0:59.2 | One thing that I discovered when doing some research for this topic is that this topic contains a lot of borrowed words. |
| 1:09.4 | So as we're going through it, there are very few of these words that are Persian words, |
| 1:14.9 | but if anyone knows of any that I'm missing, please let me know. |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.7 | Are there any sports that are specific to the Persian culture? |
| 1:25.0 | I mean, I don't know. |
| 1:26.1 | I think that, like, obviously the most popular sport is football. Football. Which is soccer. Ah, right. How about, like, backgammon? Where was that? Oh, that's a good point, but that's not, it's a game. It's not a sport. It is tachte. You could play it on a really large board and make it a |
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