"My mother's approach to learning English consisted of daily lessons with Monty Hall and Bob Barker"
This quote reminds me a lot of Ravi. His addiction to TV is such a central point of his character, and maybe it was his attempt at becoming more American, and expanding his English vocabulary. Another person this quote embodies is my uncle Youness. He is from Morocco and married my cousin Sarah (I realize he's not my uncle, but he's so much older than me that it sounds weird to call him cousin). He constantly is watching American television trying to learn English, while my cousin Sarah watches Arabic movies trying to learn Arabic, because now they speak French and German to each other.
"'W' and 'th' gave her the most difficultly. As if God was playing a linguistic joke on us, we lived in 'Vee-tee-er'..."
I always thought it was a little ironic that the one sound Sundara had a lot of trouble with was "th", and OF COURSE, her boyfriend's name had a "th" in it. It's not as though names with the "th" sound are that common! I felt that way about Elmer Fudd's speech impediment that made his chase of a "wabbit" funny.
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