How does Sundara cope with the language barrier?

Sundara's life goes from having very little to do with language barriers to being suddenly overwhelmed by that issue. In America, her entire encounter of daily reality is filtered by her poor English skills which chronically prevent her from understanding what people are saying. Since she cannot state her intentions or share friendly chit-chat, she often stays to herself, paranoid and aware that she is the talk of the town. Language is the key to earning friendship, which is literally what language provides our species by nature—we can communicate and therefore we can cooperate.