Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation, Poetry.

Monirthahas Miganke jange-jange with Nause de Avion. Salome Baham Beham Meghi and welcome to the introductory lesson on Monita Ha's poem,

Miyange, Jange, recorded with her daughter, author of the very

popular Iranian cookbook, Bottom of the Pot, Naus did Avian.

I am Leila Shams, host of Learn Persian with Choyan Conversation.

So in this first episode, Nas and I talk about Monir and her history as a poet and as Iran's first female lyricist.

And then we'll read the poem, both in Persian and its English translation, and talk about the poem in general.

It's a particularly relevant poem at this moment and time.

I really enjoyed hearing about Monir's history, especially as it relates to the role of women in general in Iranian society in the past and how it relates to today.

There's also a very popular song that uses this poem as its lyrics and will link to that in the show notes.

This is the first lesson on this poem.

In subsequent lessons, I'll go over individual words and phrases of the poem

so we can learn them and add them to our Persian language vocabulary. That way, you can use them

in your own conversational Persian. But more on that later. For now, let's get to my conversation

with Nas. Nas de Ravian, thank you for doing this poetry episode with me. I'm super excited. Thank you so much for having me, Leila, June. I'm happy to be here. We're going to be talking about your mom, and it's the day after Valentine's Day, so I'm sure that I think it's a good time to talk about our mothers, the first love that we had, right?

Exactly. Yeah. Sadly, I couldn't be with my mom yesterday, but we talked on the phone.

Good. Nice. And we're going to be talking about one poem specifically that was really touching to me the first time that I heard it on Taste, the Nation, when you recited it.

And I actually reached out to you back then asking Nation when you recited it.

And I actually reached out to you back then asking if we could talk about this poem for the podcast series. Because first, it's a very relevant poem.

It's arguably become more relevant now.

Since that was in 2020, right, that that show came out when we shot taste the nation oh my gosh

it was pre-pandemic so no i think we shot it in 2019 and then it aired in 2020 that's right

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