Farsi Lesson 103 - -'both ... and' in Persian

Hello everyone, how are you?

I hope you had no problems with lessons 101 and 102.

Today, we are going to learn one more under this category. Before doing that, I’d like to encourage all of you to get involved in Chat and Message Boards more actively. Frankly speaking, I am not very happy with you since many of you seem just onlookers to those pages and have no interest in participating in those pages. I can see that many of you just visit the pages without getting involved in discussions. I have made those pages for you to use. For example, you could arrange a time to have chat at certain time together in different groups and so on.

Unfortunately, one of the biggest problems we have is just to expect others to do something for us. We never ask ourselves what we can do for others.

Please get involved. This is good for all of you.

All right, now let’s start the new lesson.

Look at this example:

I am both sad and angry!

Both … And = /hæm … hæm/.

The rule here is exactly the same as what we had had in ‘either … or’. All you need to do is to replace ‘either …or’ with ‘both …and’. That’s it!

Here’s how:

Sad = /ghæm gin/

Angry = /æsæba:ni/

/mæn hæm ghæm gin hæstæm hæm æsaba:ni/.

Another example:

They are both lazy and indifferent.

Lazy = /tænbæl/

Indifferent = /bi tæfa:vot/

/a:nha: hæm tænbæl hæstænd hæm bi tæfa:vot/.

Ok,

I hope this was easy. For the Useful drills today, we have all sentences already used in Useful Drills 101 and 102.

Please do the Quiz first and then go to Useful Drills page.

Thank you and Khoda Hafez!

Quiz:

1- Listen to the audio files first (preferably once). Repeat it for a couple of times. Write it down on a paper. Find their English equivalents. (Seen)

One

Two

Three

2- Find the Persian equivalent for the following words and make four sentences with each of them (in different tenses).

To talk to somebody

I talked to him

To introduce

To teach

Say these numbers in Persian:

17 – 71 – 711 – 117 – 171 – 710 – 170 – 107

4- Follow the examples, combine the letters, and make words using the given letters. You’ll have to change the big letters into the small ones whenever needed.

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