Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Chai & Conversation
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Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation Podcast

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.

  1. Speak Lesson 76 | A Separation, Part 5

    1 DAY AGO

    Speak Lesson 76 | A Separation, Part 5

    🎉🥳 EXCITING NEWS: To learn Persian with us FOR FREE starting September 30th, join us for our free Learn Persian BOOTCAMP. Over the course of 6 weeks, we go over conversational Persian, reading and writing and more, all while having FUN and being part of a community. Click here to sign up and get more details. In this lesson, we watch a clip of a heated conversation between Nader and Simin, the title characters of the movie. This is a fast paced conversation, and gives us a glimpse at a type of conversation we may not often be privy to in the Persian language. This is the final episode in our series on clips from the movie A Separation by Asghar Farahadi with guest Yara Elmjouie.

    38 min
  2. Poetry | Omar Khayyam's rendee deedam, Part 2

    3 DAYS AGO

    Poetry | Omar Khayyam's rendee deedam, Part 2

    🎉🥳 EXCITING NEWS: To learn Persian with us FOR FREE starting September 30th, join us for our free Learn Persian BOOTCAMP. Over the course of 6 weeks, we go over conversational Persian, reading and writing and more, all while having FUN and being part of a community. Click here to sign up and get more details. In this follow up episode about Khayyam's poem rendee deedam, we go over the poem word by word, line by line, to understand each part individually. We'll also learn how to use the particular words and phrases in current conversation.

    16 min
  3. Speak Lesson 75 | A Separation, Part 4

    SEP 5

    Speak Lesson 75 | A Separation, Part 4

    🎉🥳 EXCITING NEWS: To learn Persian with us FOR FREE starting September 30th, join us for our free Learn Persian BOOTCAMP. Over the course of 6 weeks, we go over conversational Persian, reading and writing and more, all while having FUN and being part of a community. Click here to sign up and get more details. In this lesson about clips from the movie A Separation by Asghar Farahadi, we watch a conversation between Nader and Hojjat, Razieh's husband, about potential work Hojjat will be doing for Nader. We're joined in this episode by friend of the show, Yara Elmjouie.

    32 min
  4. Poetry | Omar Khayyam's rendee deedam, Introduction with Alan Eyre

    AUG 26

    Poetry | Omar Khayyam's rendee deedam, Introduction with Alan Eyre

    🎉🥳 EXCITING NEWS: To learn Persian with us FOR FREE starting September 30th, join us for our free Learn Persian BOOTCAMP. Over the course of 6 weeks, we go over conversational Persian, reading and writing and more, all while having FUN and being part of a community. Click here to sign up and get more details. In this special shabé shehr episode, we are joined by Alan Eyre, the first (and last) ever Persian language spokesperson for the U.S. State Department. Alan has a little book with lines of his favorite Persian poetry, and he shares one of those poems with us in this episode.

    33 min
  5. Speak Lesson 74 | A Separation, Part 3

    AUG 21

    Speak Lesson 74 | A Separation, Part 3

    🎉🥳 EXCITING NEWS: To learn Persian with us FOR FREE starting September 30th, join us for our free Learn Persian BOOTCAMP. Over the course of 6 weeks, we go over conversational Persian, reading and writing and more, all while having FUN and being part of a community. Click here to sign up and get more details. In this lesson, we watch a clip of the movie A Separation by Asghar Farahadi in which Nader and Razieh have a conversation about the potential for her husband to come work for Nader. We're joined in this episode by friend of the show, Yara Elmjouie.

    32 min
  6. Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 6

    JUL 29

    Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 6

    🎉🥳 EXCITING NEWS: To learn Persian with us FOR FREE starting September 30th, join us for our free Learn Persian BOOTCAMP. Over the course of 6 weeks, we go over conversational Persian, reading and writing and more, all while having FUN and being part of a community. Click here to sign up and get more details. In this lesson, we go over the last two lines of the poem aybé rendān makon by Hafez. The lines are as follows:  حافظا روزِ اجل گر به کف آری جامیhāfezā roozé ajal gar bé kaf āree jāmeeOh Hafez, if you have a chalice in your hand when you die یک سر از کویِ خرابات بَرَندَت به بهشتyek sar az koo-yé kharābāt barandat bé beheshtThey’ll take you directly from the winehouse street to heaven

    10 min
  7. Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 5

    JUL 22

    Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 5

    🎉🥳 EXCITING NEWS: To learn Persian with us FOR FREE starting September 30th, join us for our free Learn Persian BOOTCAMP. Over the course of 6 weeks, we go over conversational Persian, reading and writing and more, all while having FUN and being part of a community. Click here to sign up and get more details. In this lesson, we go over the following lines of the poem aybé rendān makon by Hafez: نه من از پردهٔ تقوا به درافتادم و بسna man az pardé-yé taghva bā dar oftādam o bas پدرم نیز بهشتِ ابد از دست بهشتpedaram neez behishté abad az dast behesht

    9 min
  8. Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 4

    JUL 15

    Poetry | Hafez's aybé rendān makon, Part 4

    🎉🥳 EXCITING NEWS: To learn Persian with us FOR FREE starting September 30th, join us for our free Learn Persian BOOTCAMP. Over the course of 6 weeks, we go over conversational Persian, reading and writing and more, all while having FUN and being part of a community. Click here to sign up and get more details. In this lesson, we go over the following lines of the poem aybé rendān makon by Hafez: همه کس طالبِ یارند چه هشیار و چه مستhamé kas tālebé yārand ché hoshyār o ché mast همه جا خانهٔ عشق است چه مسجد چه کِنِشتhamé jā khāna-yé ʿeshgh ast ché masjed ché kenest

    12 min
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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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