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Apr 2011

14 m

Speak Lesson 6 | How to Talk More About ...

Chai & Conversation

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In this Persian (Farsi) language lesson, we expand on introducing family members to others, and we also learn how to count to ten in Persian! Also, we introduce a special guest at the end of the program. If you need a quick reference, the vocabulary for counting from one to ten in Persian is:

yek - one
dō - two
sé - three
chāhār (chār for short) - four
panj - five
sheesh - six
haft - seven
hasht - eight
noh - nine
dah - ten

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