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Upon hearing the Vietnamese women talking to each other, I thought that I heard the birds whistling and was afraid that I would never be able to learn the language.
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The speaker says Vietnamese women’s conversation sounded so much like birdsong that it was hard to recognize as human language. This comparison expresses how unfamiliar the language felt and explains the fear that learning it might be impossible.
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