Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
by Chai & ConversationLearn 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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Episodes
Poetry | Hafez's payāmé naseem, Part 6
11m · PublishedIn this lesson, we go over the last lines of the poem payāmé naseem by Hafez:
میای دارم چو جان صافی و صوفی میکند عیبش
may-ee dāram chō jān sāfee ō soofee meekonad aybash
خدایا هیچ عاقل را مبادا بخت بد روزی
khodāyā heech āghel rā mabādā bakht bad roozee
Poetry | Hafez's payāmé naseem, Part 5
9m · PublishedIn this lesson, we go over the following lines of the poem payāmé naseem by Hafez:
جدا شد یار شیرینت کنون تنها نشین ای شمع
jodā shod yāré sheereenat konoon tanhā nesheen ay sha'am
که حکم آسمان این است اگر سازی و گر سوزی
ké hokmé āsemān een ast agar sāzee ō gar soozee
Poetry | Hafez's payāmé naseem, Part 4
10m · PublishedIn this lesson, we go over the following lines of the poem payāmé naseem by Hafez:
به صحرا رو که از دامن غبار غم بیفشانیbé sahrā rō ké az dāman ghobāré gham beafshānee
به گلزار آی کز بلبل غزل گفتن بیاموزیbé golzār āy k’az bolbol ghazal goftan beāmoozee
Poetry | Hafez's payāmé naseem, Part 3
11m · PublishedIn part 3 of our discussion of Hafez's poem payāmé naseem, we go over the 3rd and 4th lines of the poem:
چو گُل گَر خُردِهای داری خُدا را صَرفِ عِشرَت کُنکِه قارون را غَلَطها داد سُودایِ زَراَندوزی
chō gol gar khordeyee dāree khodā rā sarfé eshrat kon
ké ghāroon rā ghalat-hā dād sodāyé zarandoozee
Poetry | Hafez's payāmé naseem, Part 2
16m · PublishedIn this part 2 episode of Hafez's beautiful poem payāmé naseem, we look at the individual words and phrases in the first two lines of the poem, and learn how to use the words and phrases in current Persian conversation.
Poetry | Hafez's payāmé naseem, Introduction with Fared Shafinury
1h 0m · PublishedIn this introduction to the poem payāmé naseem, we are joined by musician Fared Shafinury to discuss the full selection of the poem. In addition, we provide a detailed overview of Hafez, the poet, and his significance in Iranian culture.
Poetry | Rudaki's shād zee Part 2
13m · PublishedIn this second part of the poetry lesson for Rudaki's poem shād zee, we go over the entire poem line by line, phrase by phrase so you can get a full grasp of the vocabulary in the poem. You'll then have a full understanding of how to use the vocabulary in everyday conversation.
Poetry | Rudaki's shād zee Intro
12m · PublishedThe FREE 6 Week Learn Persian Bootcamp begins March 25th. Find out more and to sign up here.
This is the introduction to our shabé shehr (night of poetry) series, where we go over short selections of poems in Persian, and their overall meanings in English. In this episode, we're joined by Yara Elmjouie to talk about a poem by Rudaki about living in the moment.
Shally Zomorodi, on Embracing Joy and Acceptance as a Form of Resistance
42m · PublishedThe FREE 6 Week Learn Persian Bootcamp begins March 25th. Find out more and to sign up here.
Shally Zomorodi is one of the more well-known and incredibly prolific members of the Iranian diaspora. Her day job is as a news anchor of Fox 5 San Diego Morning News where she’s been waking up San Diego for more than a decade now. However, her journalism career spans over two decades at this point, including a two-year stint in Texas where I live. But over the years, she’s also been heavily involved in the greater Iranian community, through her show Bereez o bepaz, through the many lives she does on her Instagram page interviewing other Iranians, or giving glimpses into her embrace of Iranian traditions in her home, through her Iranian gher breaks on her morning news show, and so much more.
I had a lot of questions to ask Shally after having watched her develop into such a force in the past few years, and especially over the last year.
Related Links:
- Shally Zomorodi on Instagram
Hollay Ghadery, on the perils of being half Iranian and her memoir, Fuse
47m · PublishedHollay Ghadery is is an Iranian-Canadian writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions (2021) and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box, came out Radiant Press in 2023 and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, is scheduled for release with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024. Hollay is also a book publicist and the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.
I read Hollay’s memoir Fuse back when it came out in 2021, and I couldn’t believe how applicable the things she wrote about were for my audience- for biracial or bicultural Iranians raised in the west grappling with issues of identity, of all the difficulties and joys of being raised with all these identities, of the dark sides of it, and the beautiful sides as well. I’m so excited for y’all to hear our conversation, and of course for you to experience this book, as I hope you all do.
Related Links:
- Hollay’s memoir Fuse
- Hollay on instagram
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation has 265 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 96:05:46. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 23rd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 5th, 2024 10:11.