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Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Speak Lesson 76 | A Separation, Part 5

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Chai & Conversation

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

4.9548 Ratings

🗓️ 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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