Your name is a set of sounds used to set you apart. But what if your sounds are too hard for some people to say? Parth Shah shares the first episode of "Hyphen," a podcast about people who live in two different worlds simultaneously. In this episode, Parth explores what it's like to grow up in America with a name that some people think doesn't "sound American".
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