Speak Lesson 9 | How to Use Question Words, More Family Vocabulary, and a Few Filler Words and Phrases
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 27 May 2011
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Summary
In Iranian culture, family is extremely important. Instead of having just one Persian word for 'aunt' for instance, we have two- there is a different word for the sister of your father (amé) versus the sister of your mother (khālé). So when referring to one or the other, people know exactly whether you are speaking of your maternal or paternal aunt. Similarly, while there is only one word for 'cousin', in Persian there are eight different words for cousin depending on whether they are female or male, or whether they are on your mother or father's side of the family. This might seem complicated, but once you get the hang of it, it makes figuring out who a given person is referring to quite easy! In this Persian (Farsi) lesson, we go over all the different words for extended family. These will be very useful when talking to Iranians, because, as we've said, family is extremely important in Iranian culture. In addition, we learn the most important question words to help you form useful questions when having conversations. Questions are a useful tool for getting to know someone, and these question words will allow you to form many different sentences using the vocabulary we've learned so far. The questions words we go over in this lesson are:
- Who
- When
- Where
- What
- How
- Which
We also learn some key questions you can form using these words including:
- Where are you?
- What do (would) you like?
- How's it going?
- Who is this?
- Why not?
- How many?
- How?
- Where is it?
- How much?
At this point of Chai and Conversation, you'll be amazed by how much you can understand of casual Persian conversations.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Lesson 9 |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chaya and Conversation, the podcast for anyone looking to learn conversational Persian. |
| 0:15.0 | My name is Leila and I'll be your teacher for the course. |
| 0:18.0 | 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 and join us in learning the Persian language. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello and welcome to the ninth episode of Learn Persian with Chai and conversation. |
| 0:56.1 | We congratulate you on making it this far in the program. We've been learning so much new vocabulary in each lesson, |
| 1:01.6 | and we hope that it's helped you to become more comfortable with learning the Persian language. |
| 1:05.6 | This ninth episode marks the end of what we'll be calling Unit 1 of Triang Conversation. |
| 1:11.7 | This episode is going to go over some filler material |
| 1:14.4 | and clarify some of the vocabulary and phrases we learned in the past lessons. |
| 1:19.1 | The next episode is going to be a comprehensive review |
| 1:22.2 | of everything we've learned so far in Tri-end Conversation. |
| 1:26.0 | Are you ready to begin the lesson, Matt? |
| 1:28.6 | B'am ready. |
| 1:30.5 | Great. Let's begin to learn Persian with Chai and Conversation. |
| 1:39.0 | So to begin with, in lesson one, we covered greetings and asking people how they are. So, Matt, how did we learn |
| 1:46.4 | to ask, how are you in that lesson? Chituri? Exactly, Chitudi. And now that we've learned a bit |
| 1:54.7 | more about the Persian language, I can explain that this is a very informal way of asking someone |
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