Welcome to the world of America's foremost humourist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delights . . .

'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an Easter?"
The teacher called upon the rest of us to explain. "It is a party for the little boy of God who call his self Jesus."
"He die one day and then he go above my head to live with your father."
"He weared of himself the long hair and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples."
"He nice, the Jesus."'