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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 106 minutes
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0:00.0 | Guys, what's going on? Welcome back to the podcast. I'm not going to like, it has been a minute. |
0:04.2 | And today we've got Dr. Karan. Karan. I'm going to say Dr. Karan. Because that's how your family would say it, right? |
0:10.0 | Yeah. How would your patient say it? |
0:12.0 | Well, listen, I think I introduced myself as, you know, I'm Karan. I'm one of the doctors here and one of the surgeons here. |
0:18.6 | Yeah. But I'll say that most people in Western-speaking countries, Caucasian people, |
0:25.9 | might not be able to pronounce those foreign-sounding names. |
0:30.7 | And that's because, you know, someone who's born and brought up in the UK or the USA, |
0:35.3 | who is, you know, Caucasian, mainly is born and brought up speaking English. |
0:40.3 | They don't speak other languages from birth. They kind of learn them over time. So sometimes |
0:44.8 | there's certain syllables in ways that you contort your tongue. It's difficult to do that |
0:49.7 | sound. Like, you know, your name, you know, it's not Diren, it's Diran. Diran. Duran. |
0:54.8 | Duran, yeah, yeah. |
0:56.0 | So, you know, those kind of ways you twist and turn your tongue come from speaking those |
1:00.3 | other languages sometimes. |
1:01.6 | So when you were saying Caucasian for immigrants that are listening in order, hoodman, |
1:05.8 | it means the white man. |
1:08.9 | The white guys. That's what you meant. |
1:11.7 | You know, because I speak Hindi, Tamil and English. |
1:16.4 | And I would say I'm like 95% fluent in German. |
1:20.7 | I did that throughout. |
1:21.5 | Shut up. |
1:22.1 | Yeah, I lived there for a couple of months in Munich and in Berlin on an exchange. |
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