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1. 0:00Allow me to tell you a tale of Mullah
2. 0:02Nasruddin, the seeming village idiot
3. 0:05who's actually the wise fool. This story
4. 0:07has a phrase in it that I think about
5. 0:09almost every single day. One day, Mullah
6. 0:11Nasruddin takes a bowl of yogurt down to
7. 0:14the sea and spoonful by spoonful, he
8. 0:17starts stirring the yogurt into the
9. 0:19water. Someone walks by and he goes,
10. 0:22"Mullah, what are you doing?" Mullah
11. 0:24turns around and answers, "I'm making
12. 0:26doogh." So, if you don't know, doogh is
13. 0:29a very popular drink for Iranians. It's
14. 0:31made of yogurt and water. So, the
15. 0:34passerby says, "That's never going to
16. 0:36work. You just have a bowl of yogurt and
17. 0:38look how vast the sea is." And Mullah
18. 0:41turns around and he says,
19. 0:43"I know it won't work, but
20. 0:45agar beshe, chi mishe?" And this
21. 0:49translates as, "Agar beshe,
22. 0:51if it does work,
23. 0:53chi mishe?" Meaning,
24. 0:56"Think of what could be." So again, I
25. 0:58think about this phrase all the time,
26. 1:00especially with my kids. Sometimes they
27. 1:02have ideas that seem so out there and
28. 1:05wild and impossible, but I have to
29. 1:07remember, it's about the possibilities,
30. 1:09it's about the dream. And maybe this
31. 1:11applies to you because you've told
32. 1:13yourself you can never learn Persian.
33. 1:15There aren't enough resources, you don't
34. 1:17have the time, it's just too hard. But,
35. 1:20come stir yogurt with us. We have a free
36. 1:23six-week-long learn Persian boot camp
37. 1:26where you're going to be going over the
38. 1:27basics of Persian conversation, reading
39. 1:30and writing in Persian, and you will
40. 1:32learn and memorize an entire poem in
41. 1:34Persian. Maybe you don't believe it now,
42. 1:37but agar beshe, chi mishe.
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44. 1:41more information and to join. See you at
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