Speak Lesson 9 | How to Use Question Words, More Family Vocabulary, and a Few Filler Words and Phrases

In Iranian culture, family is extremely important. Instead of
having just one Persian word for 'aunt' for instance, we have
two- there is a different word for the sister of your father
(amé) versus the sister of your mother (khālé). So when referring
to one or the other, people know exactly whether you are speaking
of your maternal or paternal aunt. Similarly, while there is only
one word for 'cousin', in Persian there are eight different words
for cousin depending on whether they are female or male, or
whether they are on your mother or father's side of the family.
This might seem complicated, but once you get the hang of it, it
makes figuring out who a given person is referring to quite easy!
In this Persian (Farsi) lesson, we go over all the different
words for extended family. These will be very useful when talking
to Iranians, because, as we've said, family is extremely
important in Iranian culture. In addition, we learn the most
important question words to help you form useful questions when
having conversations. Questions are a useful tool for getting to
know someone, and these question words will allow you to form
many different sentences using the vocabulary we've learned so
far. The questions words we go over in this lesson are:


Who 

When

Where

What

How

Which



We also learn some key questions you can form using these words
including: 


Where are you?

What do (would) you like?

How's it going?

Who is this?

Why not?

How many?

How?

Where is it?

How much? 



At this point of Chai and Conversation, you'll be amazed by how
much you can understand of casual Persian conversations.