Interview | Raising Neem-Roonis Interview with Azadeh Shams
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Chai & Conversation
4.9 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Azadeh Shams is a toy designer living in Milan, Italy. She specializes in creating toys for children bilingual in both Persian and English. She has also become an internationally known expert on raising bilingual children, frequently appearing on the massively popular Man o To network. I became familiar with her work on Instagram, where she frequently posts videos on how to raise bilingual children, and often teaches by providing scenarios and offering multiple choice answers of how to deal with challenging situations.
I learned an incredible amount from Azadeh- she has such a respectful approach to raising children, one that I think would lead to the kindest and most sustainable way of passing on language learning. Because in the end, language is all about love and understanding- so it makes sense to use a gentle approach in passing on a language rather than an overtly forceful one. Azadeh is also graceful in answering questions not as a person who claims to be an expert, but as someone with a particular point of view. I hope you enjoy the interview- I learned so much from her!
Resource List
- Azi Toys- The place to find the toys and worksheets Azadeh has put together
- Azadeh Shams Instagram Page- Where Azadeh is most active- great content for parents of bilingual children
- Azadeh Shams YouTube Page- Videos of topics for parents raising bilingual children
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Raising Nimruni's interview with Ozade Shams. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to this Raising Nimrunnies interview with Ozza de Shams, a toy designer living in Italy. |
| 0:27.3 | Raising Nimdrenes is an interview series where we talk to Iranians married to non-Iranians, |
| 0:32.2 | raising half-Iranian children, and the challenges and the joys that comes along with that. |
| 0:39.0 | As I mentioned in the interview, |
| 0:44.7 | we did record this interview as a video as well. So if you'd like to check that out, we'll have it on our YouTube and our Instagram pages. So go to triingconversation.com to find the links to those |
| 0:53.1 | as well. Enjoy. |
| 0:55.9 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to our first ever video podcast for Chiant |
| 1:01.3 | Conversation. My name is Leila Shams, and I'm joined today by Ozad De Shamps. Same last name, |
| 1:06.8 | Saddam Azadir. Salam. Hi, everyone. We're so happy to have you. So this podcast will be both just on our regular podcast and we're also putting it on YouTube. |
| 1:16.6 | So either you're watching us record this or you're listening to it as usual. |
| 1:20.6 | And so Azadei I first came across on Instagram. |
| 1:23.6 | She has some really wonderful content for people raising half-Iranian children. |
| 1:29.5 | And this program obviously is raising Nimjunis. We've talked to several people so far. |
| 1:34.0 | All of them have been in the U.S. who have been trying to keep the Persian language going with their |
| 1:39.1 | children. And so Azad is our first person from another country, which comes with a few differences |
| 1:45.7 | that I'm going to talk about. |
| 1:47.5 | But she has such good insight into raising children that speak multiple languages. |
| 1:52.9 | And so I'm really excited to talk to you today, Azade. |
| 1:55.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:56.6 | Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:58.4 | Thank you so much. |
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