but the formal way maybe it would be
that's a joke. how am I supposed to say that?
ciao naturally kenya here welcome back to my channel
if you're new here my name is kenya yes like the country
and i am here with my friend today to learn some persian
slash farsi phrases i've been thinking lately that i really wanted to
you know revamp my language series that i did
so many years ago on my channel so i decided
why not bring in a few friends that i've met here in italy
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because i'm an american girl i'm an american girl from texas living
in rome and i've been here for the last four years i really like to share my
adventures with you all so that being said let's
jump into the video today i'm here with my friend would you
like to introduce yourself hi guys this is matt uh i'm persian i'm speaking
farsi or persian and uh i met kenya in engineering school
in rome and from very beginning she was always
interested to know Persian, to write her name to write a little
person and it was so funny because she thought it's just
it looks to her like an image that's so true it does it's beautiful
the calligraphy is amazing i just it's hard to imagine being able to write
this language so beautiful like a doctor with bad handwriting
exactly and i remember you actually taught me how to write my name in class
i don't remember how to do that maybe we can do that in another video, "Kenya tries
to write her name" it was a disaster yeah i can't write
that's okay but today we're gonna try speaking so hopefully it's a little
bit better yeah let's see let's see okay i
think like with this language is like when
you connect words the shape changes so they're just
connected to each other so maybe that's the reason you think
it's like an image it's not a separate word like
english yeah exactly i was just trying to decipher between you know the start
and end of every letter but yeah also starting from the right to
left yeah yeah it all just runs together but
it's beautiful it just seems like a design to me thank
you yeah but here i am and today i'm gonna learn a
few persian slash farsi phrases so shall we get started
sure okay let's do it the first word on the
list is hello all right how do you say this that
shouldn't be very hard it's quite famous I guess
it's a salon oh salam okay yeah perfect okay let's move along
yeah that one was easy that was the warm-up okay so the next two phrases
quickly no and yes i mean they're pretty much
connected so all right no it's quite easy i'm gonna
solve that one it's ... is an informal way and formally it would be... why does this sound like Turkish?
is this like turkish? maybe i mean they're quite close it's like h-a-y-i-r
in turkish
yeah like ir but now i guess it's easier just
n-a yeah now okay and uh yes would be... wait, what is this sound?
does that sound right? do I sound like I'm saying yes? Yes, that was totally correct.
in a formal way that would be ballet ballet
so why do you guys have a formal and uh and inform -- basically the thing is like on the tv or
let's say in the books we use uh let's say formal way which is
kind of ridiculous if you use it in a day-to-day
life with your friends or your family yeah yeah they just laugh at you so that's a
kind of informal way that everyone uses yeah okay so yeah i mean that's
reasonable i want to try to say both but we're going to go with the informal
okay okay so
okay so the next word is please which is ... yeah yeah that's like the
turkish one thing now yeah
yeah perfect okay so how do you say thank you
i guess this is informal and formal yeah i mean
there's basically a lot of way to say thanks in person because people are so
like let's say you have uh so many let's say social uh
codes um you have respect for a lot of respect
and sometimes like it's so funny some things that you say
so there's million ways to say thank you one of them which is very like
i believe uh it's not persian and maybe came from french
is mercy yeah and the other one is uh
yeah okay so you have mercy and that's informal
yeah no yeah it's both both uh let's say both were informal
but the formal way maybe would be
that's a joke oh my goodness, how am I going to say that? it's like turkish like..
do you remember? yeah
Ok, so... this is so confusing
because i'm getting jumbled i'm remembering you gave me three different
phrases yeah so we have mercy let's you can get along
with mercy okay it's perfect that was the easy one okay okay
yeah okay so the next one is what's up so i'm assuming this is informal
well yeah this is going to be
so, what news, let's say, so what's the news?
Oh, but can she say --? Can I say it?
does it actually sound correct to your ears like yeah i can totally understand what you are saying
you like you know okay sounds silly but
yeah that was the best one. ok, the sound was gutteral, okay you made it perfect next one is
how are you that's so easy
yeah okay that was simple enough okay not so bad yeah
so the next one is what is your name this seems like
it will be complicated or no that has a thing a bit similar to the one that we
said before like -- so here we say especially
your name what that's a little translation but yeah you say
yeah do you have any inflection like when something's a question like where
your voice raises at the end of the sentence Persian is uh
like so smooth like normally when we have this person
english accent yeah did I say it correctly yeah okay no you
say it right now i'm just laughing and that's funny the concept
is funny so we speak so smooth and so like uh like neutral. yeah i don't know
yeah i'm not sure exactly like a sleepy persian cat
that sometimes you don't even understand if it is a question or statement
oh yeah which is basically that was just as much yeah
it's my chair yeah okay so the next one where are you from how
do i say this
yeah means like
that's hard like uh means where means like the let's say that the
location you're coming from so very lucky which location
exactly
this is so complicated okay so the next one is my name is
this is apparently very important when you need to introduce yourself
make conversation how do i say this so uh
i'm gonna go lit like worldwide
which we had it before man is me and has is
is so es my man kenya
yeah we can also like you say uh like ask it from other person's name like
maybe maybe the same baby says my husband say
esme
what is your name so what is the actual word for name
is but it's so short
what is it your name my name is it's such a small
it seems like such a how can i say a small word
yes it's like a sound like yeah yeah it doesn't have much uh
also the name is i don't know i could name it kind of short too though yeah
yeah i guess you're right it's not the same
thing so the next one is nice to meet you oh
that was that was a hard one
that's a long one
is that nice to meet you yeah that whole phrase yeah
this is not gonna happen this is not going to happen okay
oh gosh okay can we say nice too and then me too can you break it you
can't we can break it down i can do half and half but i cannot do
the whole thing but let's make it shorter
oh that's the short break why did you start with the longest phrase
i was legit the trusted in the whole phrase
at the end would be just at the end like yeah nice okay so it's like
i said it to be like nice so it's nice
next let's go bedding oh bedding yeah okay that's easy perfect so
short and easy you see like let's get to this video
yeah let's go okay next one come on come on how do we do this so let's go is
betting mm-hmm yeah so
if you want to say like come on like you know like let's say like uh
in a kind of like explanation like i'm not excited but they say like you're
making like a force mm-hmm like we say yeah
yeah yeah like yeah yeah angry come on come on don't
make it late be it again yeah be a good okay perfect
that's not so bad yeah that was awesome i like the short
phrases okay so the next one is cheers this is
very important when you're socializing in borders of
course like you want to drink something yeah you
have a table you say
yeah easy oh okay
okay easy enough yeah but this is very important you know when you're
socializing you can never forget about the cheers
okay the last one hopefully the easiest one
goodbye but this one also has the crazy sound it is
which is legit means uh for now okay like goodbye or just for now bye
for now like now just just buy it just for now but
that means actually like boy for now so that would be fela but if you want to
be a bit nicer you just say hold up hold up yeah so what's the
informal informal for this one is there one uh
maybe maybe uh if you want to make it like 100 person
you could say bedroot bit rude yeah you can also say the 100 percent
way of saying hi some people say rude
but what is it what is
can you break it apart because i heard [ __ ] oh wait no no
if you break it apart like uh it would be just a river yeah
okay it's a river rude really yeah it's a river root
i wonder what the origins of this word is yeah the person is in the european
language so maybe there are some similarities with the english yeah oh
gosh this was exhausting i'm so tired my mouth does not move this way
no all right that was the easy language if you practice some other north
european languages you would have been like so exhausted by now oh really
i don't know but let's see one of these days hopefully i will make my very to
iran i'm just waiting yeah one of these days
yeah from let's say first year of the school i was telling you and showing
your pictures to make you excited and yeah
it looks absolutely beautiful so hopefully one of these days
i could do it on but i made a video on about this thing maybe
you can check it out on youtube yeah my name is uh
things they have never told you about iran yeah perfect it was
it was a video make sure you guys check it out if you're interested to travel
yeah and i'm gonna link it in the description box below so you guys can
easily access it but this is great so thank you so much
thank you thank you i hope i wasn't so bad yeah it was very
interesting but thank you guys for watching and i
will see you in my next language exchange video okay ciao for
now
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