In this lesson, we build on Lesson 42, and learn how to talk about wants. For instance, 'I want to go to the cinema.' In addition, we learn some special verbs that allow us to construct additional subjunctive sentences. These special verbs include 'must', 'might', 'it's possible', and 'it's better'.
This lesson teaches the simple subjunctive, which will allow you to take definite sentences like 'I am going to the movies tonight' to less definite ones like 'I could go to the movies tonight'.
In this lesson, we go over some 'structured infinitive sentences'. These are verb structures that include all parts you need to make a full sentence within them. The four verbs we focus on are 'I telephoned ______', 'I am happy with ______', 'I am angry with _______', and 'I am waiting for _______'.
In this dialogue, we ask Matt and Ladan what they've been up to the past few months. We get to hear how Matt's been doing in med school, and we also hear some really exciting information that Ladan reveals.
In this lesson, we’re going to listen to two people deciding what they’re going to do one evening. They go through a variety of options, including going to the cinema, getting Chinese food, and making food at home. Listen to find out what they ultimately decide.
This dialogue teaches you vocabulary to use in stores while buying things such as jewelry.
Up until now, we’ve been listening to conversations between Leyla and various family members. In Lesson 37, we listen to a dialogue that takes place in a restaurant, first between a host and patrons, and then between a waitress and patrons. This should sound familiar to you, because much of this vocab was covered in unit 2. This will serve as a reminder and also present some new vocabulary for you to use when visiting a restaurant.
Lesson 36 features a conversation between Leyla and her Aunt Farnoosh. Aunt Farnoosh describes her trip to Cancun.
Lesson 35 features a dialogue between Leyla and her uncle.
Lesson 34 features a dialogue in Persian (Farsi) between Leyla and her grandmother.
Lesson 33 features a dialogue in Persian (Farsi) between Leyla and her mother. This lesson won't have a particular focus in terms of tenses. Rather, it will have general conversational vocabulary and skills that we need to learn.
Welcome to lesson 32, the second in our dialogues series. In this lesson, we'll be hearing a dialogue with an actual native speaker of the Persian language. That's right: we'll be listening to a conversation in Persian (Farsi) that Leyla had with her aunt! Afterwards, Matt and Leyla will go over the vocabulary and phrases used in the dialogue.
Lesson 31 features a dialogue in Persian (Farsi) between Matt and Leyla. This lesson begins a very special unit of Chai and Conversation! We're going to take all the vocabulary, phrases, and grammar rules we've learned in the first three units, and combine them in short and simple dialogues.
Lesson 30 is a review of all that we learned in Unit 3!
Lesson 29 teaches how to emphasize the present continuous tense and how to form imperative statements.
Lesson 28 teaches how to talk about habitual actions.
Lesson 27 teaches the present continuous tense.
Lesson 26 teaches prepositions.
Lesson 25 teaches compound verbs. Most compound verbs are constructed using the verbs shodan , to become, and kardan , to do. We'll conjugate these verbs, and learn how to construct compound verbs with them. We'll then conjugate those verbs in the past tense.
Lesson 24 goes over the concept of ‘ezafe,’ which will allow you to communicate many things in the Persian language, including adjectives.
Lesson 23 goes over the simple past tense, including how to talk about what you did over the last weekend.
Lesson 22 is all about the verb ‘to have,’ which will come in handy very soon in our upcoming grammar lessons.
Lesson 21 is the first lesson in Unit 3 of Chai and Conversation! In this unit, we will be going over the fundamentals of grammar of the Persian language. This entire lesson is devoted to the verb ‘to be,’ and its many different forms.
In this Persian/Farsi lesson, we learn how to talk about love and friendship. We learn common terms of endearment, how to compliment a loved one, and how to talk about your marital status. We also learn how to say 'I love you' in Farsi, which might be a bit more complicated than you would think. There's not a direct translation of 'I love you.' Rather, you could say 'I am in love with you' ( man āsheghetam) , or 'I like you' ( doostet dāram) which often gets used in the place of 'I love you'. Th...
In Lesson 18, we learn how to talk about the weather, and how to tell what time it is.
In this Persian/Farsi lesson, we learn all about how to describe things. We begin with the colors in the Persian language: black seeyāh سیاه white sefeed سِفید red sorkh سُرخ ghermez قِرمِز orange nāranjee نارَنجی yellow zard زَرد green sabz سَبز blue ābee آبی purple banafsh بَنَفش brown ghahveyee قَهوِیی After that, we go over some common descriptive words, and use them to describe chickens specifically. The descriptive words we go over include: big small quick slow nice looking ugly expensive ...
It's hard to talk about Persian food without wanting to eat it, so we apologize for this lesson in advance. In this Persian/Farsi lesson, we will go over different mealtimes that come up in every culture, such as: breakfast - sobhāné lunch - nāhār dinner - shām and a few other meals in between. We learn how to call people to a meal, and talk about a few different extremely popular Persian foods. We also learn how to leave a party. In Persian culture, leaving requires a whole ritual- it's not a s...
Continuing with the theme of hosting and being hosted, the theme of this Persian / Farsi lesson is a visit to the in-laws on a Saturday afternoon. We follow Matt on a hypothetical visit to his in-laws house, and a potential conversation as they try to serve him food. We also talk about formal speech- as we've said before, Persian culture errs on the side of formality, especially when talking to elders. Because there's an informal and formal way of addressing 'you', it's very important to choose ...
In this Persian / Farsi lesson, we learn how to talk about possession. We start the lesson by learning the example of a house (khooné). To say 'my house', you simply say 'khooneyé man'. In order to talk about possession, we have to learn the different words for groups of people, which are: me: man you (informal): tō you (formal): shomā our: mā their: ānhā his/her: eeshoon We then learn to ask who owns a certain belonging, and then learn the vocabulary words for different places around town. KEY ...
