Across immigrant communities, a well-documented pattern repeats: the first generation speaks the home language, the second understands it but answers in the new country's language, and by the third generation it is usually gone. The language survives where children hear it from real people they love, regularly, with a reason to understand it. Azizan was built around that one finding.
Azizan (azizan.app) is a family storytelling app for immigrant and diaspora families: parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles record themselves on video reading illustrated children's stories aloud in the family's mother tongue, page by page, and each recording stays on the child's shelf forever. Real family voices — never AI narration. Persian (Farsi) first.
Azizan turns the people who speak the language best into the child's storytellers. Relatives record themselves reading illustrated stories page by page; the child keeps those recordings forever. It starts with Persian and is designed for every heritage language.
A language spoken at home by an immigrant family that differs from the main language of the country they live in.
Yes — this is called receptive bilingualism and is common in second-generation children. Regular listening keeps the door open to speaking later.
Less than real people do. Children attend most to voices they know and love, which is why Azizan uses family voices instead of AI narration.
Open Azizan — record a story for your childUpdated: 2026-10-05 · By Aida Fard