The film is about an Indian housewife, Shahi, who can hardly speak English at all. She is rejected by her children at home, and her husband also thinks she can only be a housewife. She suddenly receives a message from her sister in New York that her daughter is about to get married. Invite the Shahi family to attend. Shahi’s husband asked her to spend a month alone in New York, and then he took the child to join Shahi. Shahi reluctantly came to New York alone. Here, her dumb English was affected. Discrimination and all kinds of disrespect made Shahi feel that she should make a change, and decided to sign herself up for a four-week English conversation class with a tuition fee of $400.
When I first entered the school, the whole class came from all over the world and all had their own language, but when they came here, the first requirement given by the teacher was "speak in English", so that all the students could have a conversation in English, even if some very simple sentences. Seeing this, I realized that it is not only the Chinese who have difficulty learning English, but it doesn't matter, let's work together.
In the next study, the teacher has been interacting with everyone in the classroom, and Sahi's English has also made great progress, and arranged for everyone to refer to the graduation assessment on the last day of the fourth week, requiring everyone to give a five-minute speech in English. This graduation assessment is something Sahi is looking forward to, because she also needs recognition.
After the third week of study, Shahi's husband brought the child to the United States and wanted to surprise Shahi, but the surprise disrupted her study progress, and she had to drop out of school. But with the help of classmates and teachers, Shahi let her continue to listen to the class through her classmates turning on her mobile phone in class, which moved me very much. And so far, the family still doesn't know about Shahi's secret learning of English.
On the day of the graduation assessment, it happened to be the day of my sister's daughter's wedding. Because of the wedding arrangements and some small accidents, Shaxi couldn't sneak off to the school to take part in the consideration. Just when we thought she was going to give up, the whole class was in the teacher led him to the wedding scene and cheered for Sahi.
The five-minute speech that Shahi prepared for herself was a speech for her sister's daughter's wedding. When it was the Shahi family's turn to address the newlyweds, Shahi's husband stood up first, thinking "My wife's English is not good." "The reason was that she refused, but she was stopped by Shahi, and she hoped that she would make the speech, and then she said the words in her heart that she had prepared. This scene is very moving. Then Shahi and her children were shocked, and at the same time began to change their minds about Shahi.
The whole movie is very touching and gave me a lot of motivation. It is highly recommended!
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