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Salam, and welcome to our first-ever lesson of Chai and Conversation!
In this lesson, we learn one of the most important things in any language – how to greet people and ask them how they are doing. In addition, there will be a short introduction to the teacher, Leyla Shams, and the student, Matt Bourneuf.
LESSON 1 BONUS MATERIALS:
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Awesome!
Wow! This is both informative AND entertaining. Neat!
I feel more cultured already!
This is fantastic. Cheers!
This is great! It’s fun and I don’t feel like i’m studying.
I like that the lessons are in short installments. It doesn’t seem as daunting to learn a new language if I can easily fit it into my schedule. And it’s such a musical language!
It was fun! It makes farsi seem less intimidating. And I found the written supplement very helpful as I tried to visualize the words I was learning to say.
I found this very useful, but do you plan to do another lesson anytime soon?
salam. man japoni hastam. farsi ro yad begiram. i found your podcast is very useful! but i can not find any lessons after lesson1….. please post new lesson! looking forward it.
Hello all,
Thanks so much for the wonderful feedback! We will be posting lesson 2 this week, and after that, lessons weekly. Be sure to follow us on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/learnpersian for quickest updates.
thanks,
Leyla
this is fantastic! i cant wait for more lessons! thank you!
This is great,,, keep doing it pleaaaase
Aalee.
Merci!
Keep up the great work.
Great site and I can’t wait for more
One thing more that I’d like to hear/read about is more about culture than the language – how do Iranians behave when they meet? Do they shake hands, or nod their heads? When two young people meet, do they use informal language or is formal preferred?
I’m aware that these questions may seem a little childish, but I’d really like to find out
Once again, great job.
Warmest regards to the authors and learners!
These lessons are FABULOUS! I just tried my new skills with a native Persian speaker I met randomly and they were most impressed!! I love Chai and Conversation !! Cheers and many thanks all the way from Australia!!
Shab bekheir, Leyla va Matt, man zaben e farsi kheyli dost daram veli khub balad nistam.
How can I become a member of your site to learn more?
Bi omide didar!
FABULOUS! This is so accessible. Much easier than some of the other resources that I have been looking at. I am like Matt, married to an Iranian, and want to speak better with my inlaws.
Also, we have been to Iran (2 years ago) and we want to go again!! But this time, I want to speak more than I did last time, and with others beyond my family. Maybe even start to understand the news a bit better.
Thanks for this wonderful resource!!!
Salam,
I love this learning program very much. It is a easy way to learn farsi. Khaily mateshakeram !!
I payed for bonus material lesson 1 to 9, how can I download it?
Andreas from germany
salam , finally i got a site to learn farsi in proper and professional manner. your style is really easy and impressive. thanks for this great (aali) job.
Hello Layla !
Thank you so much for these great podcasts !! There were lots of Iranians at the architecture school I went to and the language is so wonderfully musical I’ve been wanting to learn it since. I also speak Urdu – which is very close to Farsi.
Looking forward to catching up with the lessons. Keep up the podcasts !
Best,
Ayeza
Salam!
Az mexic hastam. I’m a spanish native speaker and I want to learn persian too. These materials are wonderful!!!
Thanks a lot!!!
Hi, this is a great lesson. Thanks for posting! I was wondering about the pronunciation of سلام ,خوبم, and نيستم. Maybe I’m mistaken, but it seems to my ears that Matt is pronouncing the M at the end of these words with a nasal sound. Is this the accurate pronunciation?
Thanks for your time!
-Aaron
I cannot thankyou enough for these fun and awesome lessons!! Like you said there are little resources for learning Farsi and this is just GREAT!!! I am having a blast with these podcast thankyou so much for taking the time to do this