Learning English with a drawl
May 30, 2018
2 minutes
“Latarata, gout tetenen he!” the overweight older man sitting in a wheelchair shouted through the screen door of his house when he saw us. The incoherence was exacerbated by the voice, a gravelly smoker’s baritone. What I heard didn’t sound like the English I had been learning in a refugee camp where I’d been only weeks earlier. In the mid-1980s, when I was 12,
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