Letter From My Father (2014)
“All that we could say for certain was that it was a country at the bottom of the world, certainly Down Under. I understood gravity and the rotation of the Earth, but still wondered how Australians kept their feet on the ground and did not fall off. This seemed silly, so I kept it to myself. But Australia was so far away from everything familiar. It was a little frightening.
In preparation for our venture to a new land and new language, a tutor was engaged to improve my English. I learned it... quite well, but spoke with a heavy Polish-German accent. My parents also tried to master this foreign language. Mother quickly picked it up but Father was hopeless. He just could not understand that the pronunciation in English differed so markedly from the way it looked. A word like therefore did not sound anything like its written form. He thought English was a crazy language.
Using money they got from reparations from the German government, my parents bought things that were rumoured to be scarce in Australia.MoreLess
In preparation for our venture to a new land and new language, a tutor was engaged to improve my English. I learned it... quite well, but spoke with a heavy Polish-German accent. My parents also tried to master this foreign language. Mother quickly picked it up but Father was hopeless. He just could not understand that the pronunciation in English differed so markedly from the way it looked. A word like therefore did not sound anything like its written form. He thought English was a crazy language.
Using money they got from reparations from the German government, my parents bought things that were rumoured to be scarce in Australia.MoreLess
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