Speak Lesson 8 | How to Talk About Your Likes and Dislikes
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 9 May 2011
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this Persian (Farsi) lesson, you learn to talk about your likes and dislikes. Also, we will be learning the Persian sound ‘gh’. There are two sounds in the Persian language that you don't hear in English. The first is the sound 'kh' heard in words such as 'khoobam'- we went over this in Lesson 1. The second is the sound 'gh' which we'll be going over in this lesson. We learn it specifically to learn the word for music, or museeghee in Persian. The phrases covered in this lesson will allow you to say whether or not you: like your job like chocolate like nature like sports like music Or, whether you like specific figures such as Charlie Chaplin. In order to learn how to say that you like a specific person, we have to learn about the 'direct object marker', the sound rā which has no direct translation in the English language. We also go over talking about what you like to do. The phrases we learn with regard to this are:
- I like to watch movies
- I like to read books
- I like to exercise
- I like to eat chocolate
- I like to learn Persian
We also learn to speak about these in the negative sense, and say that we don't like to do certain things.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 8 |
| 0:03.7 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya and Conversation, the podcast for anyone |
| 0:12.7 | looking to learn conversational Persian. |
| 0:15.3 | My name is Leila and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.3 | 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, |
| 0:33.6 | or as they call it, chai. |
| 0:36.6 | So pour yourself a cup and join us in learning the Persian |
| 0:42.4 | language. Welcome to a brand new edition of chai and conversation. We're so glad that you're joining us. |
| 0:55.8 | Man Leila hastam, and I am Leila and I am a Persian language teacher. |
| 1:03.6 | Man Matt hastam. |
| 1:05.1 | I am Matt and I am a student. |
| 1:09.5 | Matt, are you ready to begin learning? |
| 1:11.5 | Ready. |
| 1:12.3 | Great. |
| 1:13.5 | For our see you, begitim, with chai and conversation. |
| 1:21.3 | Last week, we learned about jobs and we learned how to say what kind of job we do. |
| 1:27.0 | We continued to say what type of place we work in and whether or not we like our job. |
| 1:32.7 | Another great way to communicate with people and get to know them is to talk about your likes and dislikes |
| 1:37.9 | about what you like doing in your free time. |
| 1:41.0 | By the end of the lesson, you should be able to talk about your pastimes and hobbies, and what types of places you like to hang out at. |
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