Learn Persian (Farsi Language Podcast) with Chai and Conversation- Lesson 1 Part 1

Taken from the podcast Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation (available on iTunes), we teach you conversational Persian in weekly lessons of about 15-20 minutes each!

Chai and Conversation is the best source for learning conversational Persian. Get more information and download more lessons at www.chaiandconversation.com

In lesson 1, we learn how to greet people, how to ask them how they are doing, and how to answer when asked how we are doing.

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[hedley4lyf]

by the way isnt how are you in farsi : haletun chetore instead of just chetore?

[justleyla]

@hedley4lyf And as for haletun chetore, that's a formal way of asking how someone is. The 'chetori' used in this lesson is very informal, and just one way of communicating. There are many ways to say everything!

[FTPfReetHepEople]

@justleyla No. Haletun chetoreh? is for more than one person, formally. Halet chetoreh is for one person, formally. Che khabar? is the standard what's up? as a non-formal greeting to someone of the same age group. Chetori is an almost non-questioning form of asking How are you?, semi-formally.

[justleyla]

@FTPfReetHepEople "Halet chetoreh' is definitely not formal... it's the informal 'how are you'. The conjugation for formal you and you plural are the same, and that is 'haletoon chetoreh'.

[hedley4lyf]

u talk to much before u get the point ... ahhhh!

[justleyla]

@hedley4lyf Haha, that's one way to put it. This isn't really meant to be a youtube video, it's a podcast. The intro has a lot of talking, you're right, but it's just lesson one.

[ninayummi]

until 1:06 not a single word in persian

[FTPfReetHepEople]

@legoboy850 It is not hubam. H produces a 'ha' sound as in English. Kheli khubam, or I am very well, is pronounced with a lower-tongue spit-producing 'kha' sound. If such a word existed and was not pronouced with the 'kha' sound, it would be spelled in English letters as hoobam.

[ruellan2003]

I mean...selam!

[ruellan2003]

great video  salom!

[hedley4lyf]

@justleyla oh alright well thanks : ) this is cool, Ill be checking out the next lessons