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**Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation**

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation teaches you conversational Persian in a fun and casual manner in weekly lessons of about 15-20 minutes each. Check out our website chaiandconversation.com for more information.

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Speak Lesson 26 | Prepositions Jul 22, 2012

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Lesson 26 teaches prepositions.

Speak Lesson 25 | Compound Verbs Jun 15, 2012

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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.

Speak Lesson 24 | The Concept of ‘Ezafé’ May 31, 2012

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Lesson 24 goes over the concept of ‘ezafe,’ which will allow you to communicate many things in the Persian language, including adjectives.

Speak Lesson 23 | The Simple Past Tense Apr 02, 2012

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Lesson 23 goes over the simple past tense, including how to talk about what you did over the last weekend.

Speak Lesson 22 | The verb ‘To Have’ Feb 05, 2012

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Lesson 22 is all about the verb ‘to have,’ which will come in handy very soon in our upcoming grammar lessons.

Speak Lesson 21 | The verb ‘To Be’ Jan 25, 2012

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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.

Speak Lesson 20 | Review of Unit 2 Dec 22, 2011

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Speak Lesson 19 | How to Talk About Love and Friendship Dec 07, 2011

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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'. The most common term of endearment in the Persian language is jān or joon (either one works). This is often said after a loved one's name. For instance, if you are talking to your friend named Sarah, you could call them 'Sarah joon' to show them that you really care for them. You could also use it to call a family member. For instance, the word for maternal uncle in Persian is dāyee. Uncles are often called 'dāyee joon' meaning dear uncle.

Speak Lesson 18 | How to Talk About the Time and Weather Nov 11, 2011

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In Lesson 18, we learn how to talk about the weather, and how to tell what time it is.

Speak Lesson 17 | How to Describe Things (Includes List of All the Colors) Oct 28, 2011

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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
cheap

And more! We go over a dialogue in which we talk about expensive cars.

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