Since childhood, I have been in awe of those who can speak multiple languages. My admiration would morph into envy when multilingual friends and relatives would glide into diverse dialects as easily as switching on a light. My partner has the uncanny ability to decipher words across languages, making sense of their shape and form from the visual similarity of the alphabet. However, my language skills remain frozen in time, and I am barely comfortable with anything beyond Malayalam and English. T...

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