No, grandma, I dun won foo. Options

[LoveToMySilas]

This goes out to everybody who has parents or grandparents or any form of relative that doesn't speak english too well. Do you ever find yourself speaking "engrish" with them (even though we can speak fluent english) because you think that they won't understand if you do speak in english?

For example:

Grandma: Where you go today?
Jane: I play basketbon with fren.

[Christy]

Fortunately, both my parents speak fluently in English.

My Chinese isn't so great, but I know enough.
When I speak with my grandparents, I speak what I know (Like Christy)

Same deal here.
I wish I could speak more Chinese.
My conversations with my grandparents always die off.
I say the same things every time.
"How are you?"
"How's the weather doing?"
"I miss you."
"How's grandpa/great grandma/aunt/other relative?"

After using those lines in different orders, I run out of things to say, rofl.

LMAO! that's what i say to my grandparents in china. it's really hard to understand them since they speak in heavy heavy canto accents or whatever and im always like; *covers phone* ; "dad, what's '*bad imitation of grandparents*'?" and he explains to me and i go to the phone like; "OHHHH! I'm fourteen" or something like that. xD

[Eww]

LMAO! that's what i say to my grandparents in china. it's really hard to understand them since they speak in heavy heavy canto accents or whatever and im always like; *covers phone* ; "dad, what's '*bad imitation of grandparents*'?" and he explains to me and i go to the phone like; "OHHHH! I'm fourteen" or something like that. xD

I KNOW. Rofl, I'm constantly asking my dad for help.
I remember when I was younger, he'd like whisper what to say ;D

I need to learn how to speak more Canto.