Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Learn 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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 198
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- the Real Tara Joon
The Real Tara joon is a social media content creator, which is not our general interviewee target. But, she has amassed a massive following on Tiktok, with almost 1 million followers, and even though…
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Bahador Alast on Viral YouTube Success and Interconnectedness of Languages
Bahador Alast is a mohandes, or engineer, by day, but he has over 278 thousand subscribers on Youtube following a niche that he’s been able to fulfill and thrive in so well- comparing languages to on…
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Arian Moayed on the true purpose of art, and Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good Deeds
I’m so excited to share with you all my conversation with Emmy award nominated actor Arian Moayed- he really needs no introduction, but you probably have seen him as Stewy on Succession, Kian on love…
Interview | Growing Up Irooni - Back Home Beer on rediscovering the tradition of Iranian beer
I’m so excited about sharing today’s interview with Zahra Tabatabai, the woman behind the Persian inspired beer brand Back Home Beer. You might have seen her instagram or Twitter profile by now- she …
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Big Love Fierce Juju on openly discussing uncomfortable topics as an OBGYN
Dr. Shieva Ghofrany is an OBGYN better known as Big Love Fierce Juju on instagram, where she posts daily videos about topics like pregnancy, female hormones, stds, really all that good stuff that doe…
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Payam Banifaz and his journey to not becoming a lawyer
If you've been anywhere near Instagram in the last couple years, you will have come across Payam (also known as Peter) Banifaz's amazing videos depicting growing up in an Iranian American household w…
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Melody Moezzi on The Rumi Prescription
Melody Moezzi is most recently author of the book The Rumi Prescription, in which she talks about how the poetry of Rumi became a lifeline for her, helping her to gain wisdom and insight in the face …
Interview | Raising Neem-Roonis- An Interview with Reza Aslan
(Originally published May 12th 2020) In this Raising Neem-Roonis edition of Chai and Conversation, we talk to author, commentator, producer, professor, and many other hat-wearer Iranian-American Reza…
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Caspian Chef discusses returning to his Iranian roots after decades of assimilation
In this Growing Up Irooni we talk to Omid Roustaei, better known as the Caspian Chef. In this conversation, we discuss the process of coming to the United States on his own and figuring out his own p…
Poetry | Saadi's bani ādam Part 3
In this final part of the discussion of Bani Adam by Saadi, we go over the last two lines of the poem, and review the entire poem in its entirety as well.
Poetry | Saadi's bani ādam Part 2
In this lesson, we'll go over the first part of the poem bani ādam and learn the individual words and phrases of this section of the poem.
Poetry | Saadi's bani ādam Intro
In this poetry episode, we go over one of the most famous poems of the Persian language, bani ādam, by the poet Saadi. We will learn about Saadi and what made him such a unique voice, and then we'll …
Poetry | Rumi's beshnō een nay Part 4
In this lesson, we're going to go over the final part of the poem beshnō een nay by Rumi. We will go over the Persian words and phrases learned in this part of the poem.
Poetry | Rumi's beshnō een nay Part 3
In this third part of our discussion of Rumi's beshnō een nay, we go over the middle part of the poem, and learn the words and phrases associated with this part of the poem.
Poetry | Rumi's beshnō een nay Part 2
In this lesson, we're going to go over the first four lines of the poem beshnō een nay, (also known as beshnō az nay- we explain this in the lesson) and learn the vocabulary and phrases associated wi…
Poetry | Rumi's beshnō een nay Intro
In this lesson, we go over one of Rumi's most famous poems, beshnō een nay, which means ‘listen to the reed flute,' with our friend Muhammad Ali of Persian Poetics. We go over the essence and meaning…
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- House of Pod's Kaveh Hoda on being Iranian-American in Medicine
Kaveh Hoda is a physician, musician and host of the medical podcast House of Pod in San Francisco. His expertise is in gastroenterology, hepatology and, according to him, making fun of medical grifte…
Interview | Growing Up Irooni- Persian Poetics, Growing Up in Detroit and Discovering the Love of Persian Poetry
My name is Leyla Shams, host of the Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation podcast. Today’s interview is with Mohammad Ali, better known as Persian poetics on both Instagram and twitter. He went vi…
Speak Lesson 71 | Nowruz (Vocabulary Sprint)
In this Persian (Farsi) lesson, we go over vocabulary associated with the most important Persian holiday, Nowruz. We'll learn about the haft seen table, and the items associated with the haft seen ta…
Poetry | Ahmad Shamlou's raz Part 3
In this lesson, we continue our study of Ahmad Shamlou's poem, Rāz. We learn the words and phrases in the second half of the poem.