Teaching your grandma how to speak english
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hehehe...
I'm kinda in the same situation, just opposite.
My fiance is Chinese and speaks Cantonese fluently (and English too). And her mom doesn't speak English that well. Enough to where she can understand me, but doesn't always know how to respond. So we help her (the correct way).
But my finace was always teaching me the bad things to say and then she would laugh. I didn't know any better though. So I would say these things to her family. She'd teach me simple things like Thank you. And then other things that made everyone laugh at me. =)
I think the first thing she taught me was (excuse the spelling, I don't know how you would actually spell it, so i'll do it as phonetically as I can) "Ngo hai guiy jie."
I think she finally told me that it meant ghost boy...or something like that. haha.
And then whenever we would leave her family's house, she told me to say (again, phonetically) "awe see." That was also her excuse for when she wanted to leave. She'd just tell everyone that I had to go to the bathroom. For a while, I was known as poop boy. hahaha. Only true love can go through that. =)
She told me once to say "pok gai", but someone else told me not to say that. haha.
It's going okay though now. They seem to have stopped doing that to me. Right now I'm trying to learn the tone numbers. It difficult for me to hear the differences sometimes, especially on the ones that are flat vs. the ones that go up.
I'm kinda in the same situation, just opposite.
My fiance is Chinese and speaks Cantonese fluently (and English too). And her mom doesn't speak English that well. Enough to where she can understand me, but doesn't always know how to respond. So we help her (the correct way).
But my finace was always teaching me the bad things to say and then she would laugh. I didn't know any better though. So I would say these things to her family. She'd teach me simple things like Thank you. And then other things that made everyone laugh at me. =)
I think the first thing she taught me was (excuse the spelling, I don't know how you would actually spell it, so i'll do it as phonetically as I can) "Ngo hai guiy jie."
I think she finally told me that it meant ghost boy...or something like that. haha.
And then whenever we would leave her family's house, she told me to say (again, phonetically) "awe see." That was also her excuse for when she wanted to leave. She'd just tell everyone that I had to go to the bathroom. For a while, I was known as poop boy. hahaha. Only true love can go through that. =)
She told me once to say "pok gai", but someone else told me not to say that. haha.
It's going okay though now. They seem to have stopped doing that to me. Right now I'm trying to learn the tone numbers. It difficult for me to hear the differences sometimes, especially on the ones that are flat vs. the ones that go up.
