Mind Your Language (TV Series)
The First Lesson (1977)
Dino Shafeek: Ali Nadim
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Quotes
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Jeremy Brown : I am Brown...
Ali Nadim : [points at himslf and Jamilla] No, we are brown. You are white!
Jeremy Brown : No, my name is Brown, I am your teacher.
Giovanni Capello : Ah! Tu professore!
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Jeremy Brown : And your name?
Ali Nadim : I am Ali Nadeem, from Lahore. I am working at the moment, not anywhere at all.
Jeremy Brown : You are unemployed?
Ali Nadim : Yes, please. Only one day a week I am working.
Jeremy Brown : And what do you do then?
Ali Nadim : I am going to the unemployed exchange to be collecting my money. Cor blimey! I get more money for not be working than when I'm working!
Jeremy Brown : And before you discovered this secret of eternal wealth, what did you do?
Ali Nadim : Blimey, I worked. At the Taj Mahal.
Jeremy Brown : In Delhi?
Ali Nadim : No, Putney. The Taj Mahal Tandoori Restaurant. Jolly good chapati and poppadom.
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Ali Nadim : Excuse me, please, lady.
Miss Courtney : Yes, what is it?
Ali Nadim : I am coming here for to be learning the English.
Miss Courtney : You are early.
Ali Nadim : No, I am Ali.
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Miss Courtney : Let's start again. Go down the corridor...
Ali Nadim : [repeating] Down the corridor.
Miss Courtney : Good. Turn left...
Ali Nadim : [repeating] Turn left.
Miss Courtney : Right.
Ali Nadim : But you are confusing me, left or right?
Miss Courtney : It's... left.
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Ali Nadim : [Ali and Mr Brown bumping into each other] Sorry, deary me. I am not going what I am looking.
Jeremy Brown : [correcting Ali's sentence] No, no! I wasn't looking where I was going.
Ali Nadim : That makes the two of us. Excuse me, Sir.