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Persian or Farsi? That is the question By Moná Kíání   Would my two-year old son speak Persian or Farsi?   Frankly that was not THE question when I decided to develop a bilingual series of books and e-books for children of mixed Persian parentage.   I was just desperately looking for resources to help my toddler son learn Farsi. The sheer irony was, as a child, I hated learning Farsi. I was always looking for ways to skip the weekly classes.   Here I was, your typical second generation Iranian of the Persian diaspora. Then again, maybe not quite....