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by Rezwan on 10/29 at 07:00 PM
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The best way for language to thrive is if it’s spoken. It needs to live and breathe and exercise. Use it or lose it. The way magnets help here is that they get you out of a rut. In the typical Iranian-American home, the use of Persian language starts to erode and gets limited to certain types of conversations, pleasantries, what do you want for dinner, and so forth.

When you suddenly throw in all these magnetic words and create a situation in which you are playing with them, coming up with novel concepts and deep thoughts, it naturally gets you to express yourself in more complicated ways in Persian (as well as English) (and did we mention the bi-lingual advantage). And of course, you all talk amongst yourselves (and feel the buzz of kinship and friendship) and get that lively humming in the language centers of the brain at the same time.