Châyi, Coffee & Ordering Basics
After this lesson you can order drinks and snacks three polite ways — ye châyi, lotfan · mikhâm · bedin — catch the waiter's Chi mikhâin?, and drink tea through a sugar cube like a regular.
The phrase map
The dialogue
| Leila | Sâm… ghahve-khune! | Sam… a teahouse! |
| Amir | Salâm âghâ, befarmâid! | Hello sir — what can I get you? |
| Amir | Chi mikhâin, âghâ? | What would you like, SIR? |
| Sam | Ye châyi, lotfan. | A tea, please. |
| Amir | Shirini mikhâin? | Would you like sweets? |
| Sam | Âre — ye shirini! O… ye keik! | Yeah — a sweet! And… a cake! |
| Amir | Âbmive nemikhâin? | WON'T you want a juice? |
| Sam | Na, merci! Ye châyi, ye shirini, ye keik — lotfan! | No thanks! A tea, a sweet, a cake — please! |
| Leila | Sâm — ghand! | Sam — the sugar cube! |
| Amir | Âfarin, âghâ! | Well done, sir! |
Gear 1: ye + thing + lotfan. Gear 2: add mikhâm. Gear 3: bedin, lotfan — give-me, respectfully. The -in on mikhâin is the same respectful plural as dârin and mirin.
No spoon, no stirring: the sugar cube parks behind your teeth and the tea travels through it. Two hundred years of ghahve-khune tradition approve.
🎧 Speak-along drill · 1.5 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.