Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

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'. 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.

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 سیاهwhite sefeed سِفیدred sorkh سُرخ ghermez قِرمِزorange nāranjee نارَنجیyellow zard زَردgreen sabz سَبزblue ābee آبیpurple banafsh بَنَفشbrown 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:bigsmallquickslownice lookinguglyexpensivecheapAnd more! We go over a dialogue in which we talk about expensive cars.