How to say "how" in Persian
To say “how” in Persian you can use چطور. So if I wanted to say, “how are you?” I could say حال شما چطور است؟
But to say something like “I forgot how to speak English”, why do we add ی to چطور?
یادم رفته چطوری انگلیسی صحبت کنم
Grammatically speaking, why can’t we just use چطور here too? What is the ی doing?

Also, is چجور and چگونه both used in the exact same way as چطور? And if so, which is the most common in conversation?

Question

How to say "how" in Persian
To say “how” in Persian you can use چطور. So if I wanted to say, “how are you?” I could say حال شما چطور است؟
But to say something like “I forgot how to speak English”, why do we add ی to چطور?
یادم رفته چطوری انگلیسی صحبت کنم
Grammatically speaking, why can’t we just use چطور here too? What is the ی doing?

Also, is چجور and چگونه both used in the exact same way as چطور? And if so, which is the most common in conversation?

Answer

The ی at the end is a colloquial thing, and you may remove it.

«چه جور» and «چگونه» are more or less the same thing as «چه طور», but «چگونه» is almost never used in informal speech. The three words are basically constructed of «چه» (≈ what), plus «طور» (≈ way), «جور» (≈ kind), and «گونه» (≈ type).

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as Achille told, the ی is a colloquial thing in that sentence
also,  چگونه andچه جور have less using in informal speech
you can say /چطوری /چجوری می تونم به فروشگاه برم
instead of چگونه می توانم به فروشگاه بروم

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