Curriculum · Unit 2 · Lesson 16
Likes & Dislikes
دوست دارم
After this lesson you can love things (dust dâram), reject things (aslan dust nadâram!), turn the volume up and down, and hold your own in Iran's favorite debate: cinema.
The phrase map
dust dâram
I like · love it
friend-I-have
dust nadâram
I don't like it
kheyli
very much
volume up
aslan + negative
not at all
volume zero
musighi
music
film
film
ghazâ
food
Châyi dust dâram!
I love tea
thing first, then your heart
The dialogue
| Leila | Khob — film! | Okay — a movie! |
| Amir | Film-e âmrikâyi! | An American one! |
| Leila | Na — film-e irâni! | No — IRANIAN! |
| Amir | Aslan dust nadâram! | I don't like it AT ALL! |
| Leila | Man kheyli dust dâram! | Well I LOVE it! |
| Sam | Man… ghazâ dust dâram. | I… like food. |
| Leila | Khob — film-e irâni o ghazâ-ye irâni! | Fine — Iranian film AND Iranian food! |
| Amir | Bâshe! | Deal! |
Thing first
Name the thing, then declare: châyi dust dâram. No 'it' needed — Farsi trusts you.
aslan wants a negative
aslan = at-all, and it demands a negative verb: aslan dust NAdâram.
🎧 Speak-along drill · 3 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.