Speak Lesson 76 | A Separation, Part 5
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson, we watch a clip of a heated conversation between Nader and Simin, the title characters of the movie. This is a fast paced conversation, and gives us a glimpse at a type of conversation we may not often be privy to in the Persian language. This is the final episode in our series on clips from the movie A Separation by Asghar Farahadi with guest Yara Elmjouie.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation, A Separation with Yara-Enjee, Part 5. We're here. |
| 0:34.6 | Salam, Yorajan. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, Lennan. |
| 0:37.3 | Hasanavoshi. We live in Juna Washi. |
| 0:39.0 | Kassanavashi, we're here back with our part five of our separation series. |
| 0:43.4 | This is the last clip that we're going to go over, and we're introducing a new character in this clip, and that is one of the title characters, Simin. |
| 0:51.5 | So can you tell us a little bit about the clip and why you chose it Yada? |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah. So she comes up in obviously the title of the film, Judo Yian Nader asked Simi, the separation |
| 1:00.1 | of Nader from Simin. But this clip is great because it demonstrates what it's like to |
| 1:07.2 | have an argument in Persian where you're firing back and forth. |
| 1:11.5 | Things are being said. |
| 1:12.9 | It's a lot of like colloquial, casual, modern spoken Persian, just off the cuff. |
| 1:18.8 | And I thought it was a great way to learn a lot of phrases. |
| 1:21.8 | Because when you're arguing, you're not really thinking as hard about how you're saying something. |
| 1:27.0 | It just comes out really naturally. And that's |
| 1:29.1 | what we can see in this clip, a lot of natural angry language. Absolutely. And it's going to move |
| 1:35.5 | really quick. We are going to go over each phrase of this dialogue like we have in every other |
| 1:40.8 | clip. But I strongly urge you to follow along with the transcript of this lesson, |
| 1:46.7 | to follow along with either the English phonetic or the Persian script. So you can see every single |
| 1:52.1 | word that's in there. But we're going to learn a lot of really exciting new insults that you can use |
| 1:56.7 | when speaking to people, especially when you're having an argument. And another big, big, big, spoiler alert for this clip, especially this kind of, it |
| 2:05.7 | has a lot of the twist in the movie. |
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