Learn Persian with Chayan Conversation, Lesson 58.

Hello everyone and welcome to the 58th lesson of Chai and Conversation.

As you know, Unit 6 of Chai in Conversation is the culture series.

We've been covering the vocabulary needed to navigate through a lot of situations you'll find yourself in with Persian speakers. Last week we covered a subject many of us married to Persians can relate to, that of Persian weddings.

That's right. So after the wedding episode, we thought it was only appropriate to cover another topic many of you,

including you Matt, can relate to. And that is the topic of babies. So Matt and

Lodon have two children now, one girl and one boy, both absolutely adorable. And Matt, I'm sure

you've learned a lot of words from Lodon and her family associated with babies. Oh yes, I have.

Lodon's family speaks to Kemia and Armand and Persian. so I picked up a lot of it that way, and I try to throw in a few words to them myself when I can. And what about you? What language do you speak with Ruse?

Well, my husband, Chris, is American, so when we're all together, we speak English. But of course, I speak to Ruse, my son, as much as I can in Persian.

I'm trying to learn as much as I can how to raise a bilingual baby.

Hopefully I'll have some tips to share with listeners from what I learn and from experience as well.

But I also try to have him spend time with my family in Dallas so he can speak Persian with them exclusively.

He's only four months old, so he doesn't say anything just yet, but soon hopefully.

Anyhow, we're going to go over language associated with babies, things we can say to them,

and things we can say to others when talking about them.

So first, the word for child in Persian is Bache.

Bache. And strangely, we don't exactly have a word for child in Persian is Bache. Bache.

And strangely, we don't exactly have a word for baby,

so there are a few different routes we can take when referring to babies.

So the technical word for newborn is nozad.

Nozad.

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