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Speak Lesson 46 | More About Pain and Illness Apr 23, 2014

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This week, we’re continuing with our kitchen Persian vocabulary, and learning practical conversations you would have in any household. In this lesson, we learn more vocabulary for how to talk about illnesses and pain. In addition, we learn words for more parts of the body.

Speak Lesson 45 | How to Talk About Feeling Under the Weather and Pain, and Parts of the Body Apr 08, 2014

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In this lesson, we cover a topic you will hopefully not have to use too often- the topic of not feeling too well. We'll learn how to express that you're not feeling well, how to ask others how they are feeling, and how to talk about pain that you have. Also, we will learn the Persian words for several parts of the body.

Speak Lesson 44 | Subjunctive To Have and To Be Mar 26, 2014

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We’re continuing on with our power series, learning a good bit of grammar and words to help fill in our vocabulary. So Lessons 21 and 22 were devoted entirely to the verbs "to be" and "to have", respectively. These are both very important verbs in the language, and both happen to have special subjunctive stems, so we are going to devote this entire lesson to their subjunctive forms. Thankfully, they’re both related!

Speak Lesson 43 | Talking about Wants and Possibilities Mar 10, 2014

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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'.

Speak Lesson 42 | The Simple Subjunctive Feb 12, 2014

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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'.

Speak Lesson 41 | Telephoning and Other Structured Infinitives Jan 29, 2014

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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 _______'.

Speak Lesson 40 | A Review Dialogue with Leyla, Matt and Ladan Jan 05, 2014

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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.

Speak Lesson 39 | A Dialogue About What We Should Do Tonight Jan 04, 2014

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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.

Speak Lesson 38 | Dialogue in a Store While Buying Jewelry Dec 26, 2013

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This dialogue teaches you vocabulary to use in stores while buying things such as jewelry.

Speak Lesson 37 | A Dialogue in a Restaurant Dec 16, 2013

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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.

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