He taught a lot more than pronunciation.

I have a friendly neighbor from Venezuela whose first name I cannot pronounce. Anrre' is as close as I can get. Rolling r''s and only one vowel trip me up. Feel like a blithering ass.

"Call me Angie," she says with a smile.

"That Minhaj brought his parents to the studio and called the proper pronunciation of his name “a big deal”—seemingly to them—demonstrates a rhetorical shrewdness worthy of the comedian’s years on school debate teams. The presence of his mom and dad implies that the care people take to say an individual’s name correctly (or as correctly as possible) doesn’t just indicate an idiosyncratic preference, but confers respect to their family and culture as well."

[slate.com]