از صحبتتون لذت بردم
“از صحبتتون لذت بردم” (az sâhbatetân lâzzat berdam) — it was a pleasure talking to you in Persian. Phrase, level B1. The doubled zz stretches: lezzat. In a live sentence: “از صحبتتون لذت بردم، خداحافظ” — It was a pleasure talking to you, goodbye. Written with the characters ا, ز, ص, ح, ب, ت, ت, و, ن, ل, ذ, ت… A word from the everyday Persian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Persian | از صحبتتون لذت بردم |
| Read in Latin letters | az sâhbatetân lâzzat berdam |
| Translation | it was a pleasure talking to you |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
the doubled zz stretches: lezzat
Why it looks that way
Literally "from your talk pleasure I took": the talk plus the delight. The doubled letter in the middle — hold the pause. It was a pleasure talking, goodbye — says the example
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- از صحبتتون لذت بردم، خداحافظaz sâhbatetân lâzzat berdam, khâdâhâfezIt was a pleasure talking to you, goodbye
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “it was a pleasure talking to you” in Persian?
«از صحبتتون لذت بردم», read “az sâhbatetân lâzzat berdam”. The doubled zz stretches: lezzat. In a live sentence: “از صحبتتون لذت بردم، خداحافظ” — It was a pleasure talking to you, goodbye. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ا, ز, ص, ح, ب, ت, ت, و, ن, ل, ذ, ت…
How is “از صحبتتون لذت بردم” written in Latin letters?
az sâhbatetân lâzzat berdam. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "from your talk pleasure I took": the talk plus the delight. The doubled letter in the middle — hold the pause. It was a pleasure talking, goodbye — says the example. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.