Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation Raising Nimb-Junis, a conversation with Nas de Ravion.

Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation, a raising Niemjibnese interview with actress turned cookwick author, Nasda Avian.

I've had this idea for a very long time, even before I myself had children, to interview Iranians in the diaspora

who are married to non-Iranians and raising half-Iranian children. A pretty unique situation.

Hence the title, Raising Nimrunnis. And Nimrunnis is just a clever way of saying half-Iranians.

Credit to my friend Mashad V Bakiti for coming up with that.

So before I had kids, I had so many ideas on how to raise them on every topic from things like,

you know, screen time to how to discipline them, to how much time they should spend outdoors.

And one thing that was always really important to me was teaching them the Persian language.

I pride myself on being able to speak Persian, even though I've been in the state since I was three and a half.

And I do have a podcast where I teach the Persian language, after all.

But when you have kids, so many of your ideals and ideas become humbled by reality.

And I've been surprised that my own sense of strictness about only speaking Persian has changed over time. At this point, I've now interviewed several

Iranians in the diaspora who are perhaps further along in the raising children process than me

or are high-profile Iranians that I respect respect and we'll be rolling out these interviews

over the course of the next few weeks.

So the first interview was with the actress turned cookbook author, Naus de Ravion.

Her Persian cookbook is called Bottom of the Pot and since receiving it in 2018, I use it almost

weekly.

And she talks a lot in the book about her American husband and how

she integrates him into the cooking process along with their two half-Iranian daughters.

And when I came up for the idea of this series, raising Niemruñis, I knew she had to be one of the

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