My company does this thing for 10 weeks in the summer where if you make up the extra time, you can have every other Friday off. This is my first such reprieve of the year, and I think I’m mostly going to spend it running errands in Cambridge (indoor duties already done: folding the laundry and washing the dishes!). It’s hot out there, but I can’t complain. I asked for summer, and by George summer is here.

Meantime entertain yourselves with this video, which is maybe only funny if you’ve ever tried to study Hebrew, like Ross is currently doing, and you find pronouncing the 20th letter of the alphabet an impossible feat. Yesterday on the way to Harvard Square to watch Blue Velvet with Sean (…..yeah. That movie is… mmhmm.) he was practicing saying his name over and over, and I was saying things like, “Um, I think when I say it my throat is closing, and my tongue is going down a little.” or “Try saying uhhhhhh low in your throat and then just moving right into the next syllable without thinking about making an “r” sound at all.”

He’ll get it. Hopefully those people did too.

P.S. For reference, here is the word “ra” (which means “bad) pronounced with the correct accent.