Maybe when I felt like I was American, maybe that was like 14. 13. 14. That's fast. Yes, because you came here at 11. No, 12. 12. So in two years you learned English, and I was pretty fluent within, like three to six months. And you learned Baywatch. You learned. Yeah, I would watch the TV with the captions on and then my sister and I would just have the dialogue that they were having on tv. (17:15–17:19)
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