Wednesday, September 26, 2007

You already know a lot! Armenian, Persian, Greek, Arabic

- Where are you from?
- I'm Iranian.
- Armenian? Wow! What language do you speak?
- I'm Iranian, I speak Persian.
- Is that Arabic? You know Persians fought with Greeks. I saw it on 300. So why do you speak Persian?
- I am Iranian, I speak Persian!
- Is it similar to Arabic?
- Persian is an Indo-European language, while Arabic is a Semitic language. However, there are many words with Arabic origin in Persian.
- OK! But what is your mother tongue? Arabic?
- Persian!
- Why do you speak Persian in Armenia?
- I'm Iranian.


Moral Conclusion: Armenians also have to explain they don't speak Arabic :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

oon baahooshe oonvare khat ki bood?

Zenith said...

yek bande khodai ke kheili ehsase bahali ham mikard! taze inesho nagoftam ke behem migoft zabun madari yani masalan man zabun madarim english e!!!