Curriculum · Unit 1 · Lesson 7
Numbers 0–20 & Phone Numbers
بیست
After this lesson you can count 0–20 Tehran-style, ask chand tâ?, order do tâ ghahve (noun stays singular!), swap phone numbers, and answer a call with love.
The phrase map
sefr → dah
0–10
shish, not shesh
yâzdah → bist
11–20
the -dah family, like four-TEEN
chand tâ?
how many?
runs every market
do tâ ghahve
two coffees
tâ = the counting word: number + tâ + thing
shomâre
number
shomâre-t chande? = your number?
âlo? · jânam?
hello? · my soul?
how Iranians answer the phone
The dialogue
| Amir | Shomâre-t chande? | What's your number? |
| Sam | Sefr — panj — shish — do — se! | 0 5 6 2 3! |
| Amir | Âfarin! | Got it! |
| Amir | …Alo? | (calling him instantly) Hello? |
| Sam | Jânam? | My soul? |
| Amir | Ghahve? | Coffee? |
| Sam | Âre! Do tâ ghahve! | Yeah! Two coffees! |
The gift rule
After a number the noun stays singular: do tâ ghahve — never "coffees." One less thing to learn.
The -dah pattern
Every teen ends in -dah — the ten hiding inside, exactly like four-TEEN. Hear it once, own all nine.
🎧 Speak-along drill · 4 min
Headphones on, out loud, eyes free. Prompt → pause → you speak → native answer. This is where the lesson becomes yours.
Practice
Play the practice game for this lesson — listening rounds, matching, and dialogue replies, all in the real course voices. The PDF has 8 written exercises with an answer key.