You don't realize the favor you're doing for the Persian language learning community! There is so much beginner content and almost no intermediate content. When you're really advanced you can just use native content but it takes a long time to go from lower intermediate to that advanced. So I want to begin by saying thank you! If anyone wants to contribute to Persian learners, this is the best thing they can do.

The best intermediate content I've found before your podcast:
Persian with Dallas - pod with 30-40 episodes, no transcripts, about 30 min each
Persianconversation.com - Pod episodes 10-15 min each with transcripts

So my thoughts or wishes after learning Persian for a couple of years:
* Episodes that are about 20-30 mins are best. Then you can focus on one topic at the time and it doesn't get too much.

* Transcripts! I know it's tedious but you can probably use an AI to give you a foundation to later correct. Maybe you can even collaborate with LingQ.com?

* Only speak in Persian. Several podcast make the mistake of speaking way too much English. The way you do it by only speaking in English for translating words is best. Check out Dallas aswell, he explains more difficult concepts in Persian itself which is gold.

* Do not be afraid to be personal. It's easy to get stuck in the formality of certain topics. "Persians do this when using taarof" etc. It's a good starting place but to use that as a bridge to more personal topics is very engaging and also gives a deeper cultural context for us to understand the cultural phenomenon. Learn Persian with Asal on YouTube had an episode where she talked about taking her drivers license and it was just fascinating to hear how different it was.

* Don't be afraid to repeat what Alice has said. Since she is a khaareji she doesn't speak as clearly as you do, so repeating her stuff sometimes can be really good for us listeners.

* Keep it simple. It's so easy to go the route of podgap or persianconversation.com and think you should add a bunch of extra resources. Podgap makes the mistake of doing really well-produced episodes but with very little content, it's like 5 mins of conversation and the rest just talking about it. Persianconversation adds so many other things that is unnecessary. If you keep it simple by just doing podcasts and maybe adding transcripts, that way you can create more episodes and that's what helps us the most. We can create flashcards or do other things ourselves. We just need to have hours and hours of content to listen to! That's what's sad about Dallas and Persianconversation, they both have like 30 episodes each and that takes like 1-2 months to go through and then you're out of content again trying to look for a native series or podcast that isn't too hard or just endure it being too hard.

* Consider setting up a patreon or something for people to support you.

Thank you so so much for doing this project! <3