Playlist of 2 clips of LA actress Yafit Josephson, who doesn't seem to be of Persian descent, impersonating Iranian Jewish woman during Persian & Jewish new years. Josephson gets some quirks of Iranian accent wrong. For example, native Persian speakers tend to place a vowel at the beginning of English words that actually start w/ 2 consecutive consonants, such as "ess-mart" & "ess-pice" for "smart" & "spice," respectively. But Josephson places the vowel between the 2 consonants when she pronounces the words as "se-mart" & "se-pice." Native Turkish speakers tend to do the latter. Her character sings the Persian "Happy Birthday" song on the occasion of the Iranian new year!
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