Amit Kumar
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301 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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And so in doing so, I kind of learned that she didn't really speak English.
I guess an aside, mind you, the last time I took a Spanish class was in
11th grade.
So I'm probably always, you know, listeners can't see gray in my beard on a podcast, but that was a while ago.
And so, you know, I'm probably always speaking in the present tense.
not really communicating effectively.
And so this is a case where I think concerns about competence really loomed large here.
I have very little confidence in my ability to effectively communicate in Spanish.
But nevertheless, in sort of knowing my own research, I thought I'd just try to help her as best I could.
And so in my broken Spanish, I kind of pieced together that she was traveling to the US for the first time.
She was trying to get in touch with her
brother to pick her up when she landed.
And she needed to connect to the Wi-Fi in order to sort of talk to him on WhatsApp.
She had an international phone.
Connecting to the free airport Wi-Fi required kind of filling out one of those standard forms with like your email address and your zip code, things that some people are very accustomed to doing, but others might not be.
And
I guess I'll mention that I have no clue how to say zip code in any other language besides English.
And so after a few failed attempts at explaining sort of what she needed to do, she just kind of handed me her phone.
I ended up filling out the form.
with my own sort of personal contact information to get her connected.
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