AVA Diplomatic’s Exclusive Interview with Prof. Carina Jahani,
Why did you choose linguistics as your major and why did you become interested
in Persian Language?
Actually I don’t have linguistics as my major; my major is Iranian languages. But how I
became interested in Persian is a very long and interesting story. It started when I was
sixteen. As you know I’m Christian and we were in a Christian students’ organization,
where they had a lot of international contact. I liked languages and I was interested in
cultures that were not really as close to my own culture like the English, German or
French cultures would be. I was interested in challenges and was very adventurous.
Although I was very much thinking about going to India after finishing high school but
then when I was sixteen I got an opportunity to go to England for a summer and the
family that I was staying with in England had planned to emigrate to Iran…
Curtesy with avadiplomatic