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Julia (name changed) spoke English like native American speakers. I presumed that she had lived for some time in an environment where that variant of English was spoken, because there were a few other such students in the school. Charlie (real name), for example, came from the USA where he lived with his parents until they decided to give him a taste of Kerala, their homeland. Charlie’s English was just like what I hear in Hollywood movies. I had to request him to Indianize it a bit f...
