Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation, Raising Nimdunis, a conversation with Arash Karami.

Hello and welcome to this Rais Nimrenu's conversation.

My guest today is Aadash Kadami, who actually was an important catalyst for this entire project,

which we'll get into in the interview.

Arash's official bio is that he's a contributor for Al Monitor, but if you're at all familiar

with the Ron Twitter, you are no doubt already

following his Twitter account, full of astute analysis about Iran and politics in general,

and a few dad jokes thrown in there as well. This interview, again, was recorded in pre-COVID times.

He now tweets about that a lot as well, and you can find him on Twitter at at the

karami k a r a m i highly recommend following him if you're interested in any of these subjects

but for now let's listen to the interview so i'm here talking with a rash karash karamie arash

thank you so much for joining us glad to to be here. Glad to do this.

In this whole project, this Raising Nimrani's podcast started off because Arash actually wrote me on Twitter

and asked me as a Persian language instructor if I'm teaching my kids Persian.

So it's something that we all struggle with. He asked me this question and I thought, actually,

this is a great topic to cover

with a lot of people. So, Ahash, thank you for being the catalyst for this project. Hey, I'm excited,

I'm more excited as, or as anybody else is. So thank you for doing it. Well, can you tell us a little

bit about your background where you were born? And what is it that you actually do? What's your

involvement with Iranian topics?

I was born in Iran. I was born in Tehran and we came, my family and I came here when I was six.

By the time I was like in second grade, I learned a language, but I always knew Persian. So that was

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