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Watch how a cab driver reacts in surprise when German tourist Klara speaks fluent Malayalam, sparking a conversation on language, culture, and her journey of learning.
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00:00You've never seen anyone speaking in Malayalam?
00:02No.
00:03No foreign?
00:04No.
00:05Didn't you understand it in the morning?
00:06I understood it, but I thought it might be because I was born abroad.
00:12Internet users think that this German tourist, Klara, knows too much about Kerala.
00:16How to talk English with a Malayali accent?
00:19Every word that ends in T, D, K, you just add an uh sound.
00:23For example, that becomes that, book becomes book, good becomes good.
00:28Klara's video won many hearts when she spoke to the Uber driver in Malayalam.
00:50After falling in love with the Malayalam language, Klara learnt it during the pandemic,
00:54and now shares her thoughts through videos in Malayalam.
00:56Whenever you see a Malayali with a scar, you don't even have to ask.
01:01You already know it's from a bike accident, because every Malayali has had a bike accident.
01:08Although she is a German teacher, it was her command of Malayalam that the internet found
01:12truly remarkable.
01:13In Kerala, after the marriage, people are not going to be like,
01:17How's your married life?
01:18Are you happy?
01:20No.
01:21We just ask,
01:22Are you special?
01:24With over 1.5 million views on this video, users couldn't stop praising her,
01:28and some were surprised and wondering how she had learnt it.
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