Summary Of Me Talk Pretty One Day By David Sedaris

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This essay “me talk pretty one day “by David Sedaris was about a forty year old men moves to Paris from new York and returning to school to learn French. This all about him telling his audience his struggles he had with the class in was in and his horrible teacher he had. During the class David feels less of person and embarrassed and feels the other students were getting the same treatment. When he first attended the class he was lost and confused , he could hear the conversations and thought they was talking weird and couldn't keep up with them. The first day in the classp people had to get up and tell something about themselves and the teacher began talking and he understanding what she saying to them and once he found out he was scared

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