Speak Lesson 7 | How to Talk About Your Job and Where You Work
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 27 April 2011
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this Persian (Farsi) lesson, you learn how to talk about your job, say where you work, and whether or not you like your job. We learn vocabulary for a long list of jobs, including: student engineer lawyer writer architect accountant cook waiter dentist pilot artist We then learn how to combine these words into the phrase saying what we do and asking others what they do for a living. Again, very useful phrases for making casual conversation with others to get to know them better. We also learn how to say whether or not we like our jobs, and to ask others if they like their jobs as well. We then learn the vocabulary for different places you could work. These include:
- Restaurant
- Hospital
- Factory
- Office
Not all people work, however. So we also learn the following Persian phrases:
- I work
- I don't work
- I am jobless
- I am retired
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chaiyan Conversation, Lesson 7. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking to learn conversational Persian. |
| 0:15.6 | My name is Leila, and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.6 | And my name is Matt, and I will be learning Persian along with you. |
| 0:22.6 | Chaya Conversation will teach you conversational Persian in weekly lessons of about 15 minutes each. |
| 0:28.6 | If you know anything about Iranians, they don't do anything without first grabbing a cup of tea, |
| 0:34.6 | or as they call it, chai. |
| 0:36.6 | So pour yourself a cup of tea, or as they call it, chai. So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian |
| 0:42.7 | language. Hello and welcome to learn Persian with chai and conversation. Each week on our show, we bring you a lesson in conversational Persian. |
| 0:57.4 | We hope you've been enjoying the lessons so far. |
| 1:00.0 | We've come quite a long way since the beginning, |
| 1:02.9 | and we're going to continue building our vocab and language skills as the weeks go on. |
| 1:07.4 | We've also been working building content on our website at chai and conversation.com, with chai spelled C-H-A-I. |
| 1:16.1 | Many of you wrote with questions pertaining to the Iranian culture, so we thought we'd answer these in the form of blog post. |
| 1:23.1 | Be sure to check out the blog on our webpage, and if you have any more questions, be sure to contact us. |
| 1:28.9 | But for now, let's begin the lesson. Agreed. Let's learn Persian with Chai and Conversation. |
| 1:39.7 | Today we are talking about jobs. By the end of the lesson, you can say where you work, tell the |
| 1:46.0 | details of your work, and say if you like your job or not. Of course, if you haven't started |
| 1:51.2 | working yet, or if you don't have a job, we'll include vocabulary for you too. Remember that |
| 1:57.3 | learning language is all about building your language and understanding, even if it doesn't directly apply it to you. |
| 2:03.7 | The first word we're going to learn we've used before. |
| 2:07.6 | Before, when you said, I am from the United States, for example, how did you say it? |
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