When I was a teen going thru chemo treatment, I had to have surgery & be on pain meds. My sweet Korean mama was in charge of getting stool softener & when I woke up to find a bottle of the stuff, I asked her how she got the right meds. She told me, “I ask them. My daughter she have surgery she no make poo.” We still laugh about it! So proud of my mom & the life she’s built here for herself & our family. 💕
This basically happened with me. I asked my dad to buy me some highlighters on phone and He asked the store's staff "My son needs a good Vibrator" and I have to basically scream on top of my lungs to say "Highlighter" not "Vibrator".
I heard a story from one of my English as a Second Language teachers. Her class was asking questions since it was an evening class of adults. She wanted to address anything they would run into on a daily basis so they could have a better day with less confusion. One lady raised her hand and asked what a C section was. This teacher's sister in law just had a baby delivered that way, so she went into a detailed explanation of the surgery. As she continued to explain it, the woman looked more and more horrified. Then the teacher stopped and asked what were you doing to bring up this question? Well, the student had been in the break room at work, trying to read the newspaper, and her coworker, a guy, asked her for the C section.... (used to be sports pages in hand held newspapers) From then on, she always asked the conditions of the situation so she knew how to answer properly.
My Filipino wife would do that to me. After awhile I would ask, “Give me the sentence, don’t just give me the word.” She would be like, “Why does it matter?” “Because the word can have multiple meanings, so I need to know the context of how it is being used to give you the definition that applies to what you are asking for.”
asian moms are the funniest. reminded me when we first immigrated to Canada and spoke no english. Mom had to cluck like a chicken with her arms flapping to ask employee where the eggs were in the grocery store LOL
@@gr8dvdpreferably one that lasts for a while. You don’t want to just throw one in the middle of action and in less than 2 minutes come out like a deflated tire, now would you? 😅
While in China on study abroad, I was right with Jeenie's mom: I was ordering lunch in Mandarin at a restaurant with my classmates, doing fine, when I ordered chrysanthemum tea. Only in my efforts to remember how to say "chrysanthemum", I didn't say "tea", and the server was doing her best to stifle her laughter. Apparently, if you're talking about a chrysanthemum, in Mandarin, you say "chrysanthemum flower". The word for chrysanthemum, by itself, is slang for "butthole" (if you saw an actual butthole then you'll get it immediately lol). So yeah, I ordered a cup of butthole with my meal.
Brand new follower Jeanie, and your mother character is by far my favorite…especially being the child of an Asian mom who speaks such broken English. This seems exactly like an issue my own mother would have! ❤😂
This is my auntie who raised me. Although she understood English perfectly, she'd end up doing something exactly like this and that was the 80s! I miss her! Your videos are a great trip to my memory bank! Thanks for posting
This reminds me of a story my mom told me about my grandma! My grandparents came from Japan to the US. One day a neighbor was chatting with my grandma making small talk and told her “I like your pants”, and my grandma felt MORTIFIED. Pants, or pantsu in Japanese means underwear. When my grandma went back into the house she exclaimed to my mom, all freaked “Ah!! The neighbor said she liked my pantsu!”
This reminds me of a story an English teacher told us in college about teaching English as a second language. The teacher asked for someone to answer the question. The lady in the class raises her hand and says, "I'm easy." The teacher looks at her and says, "you are not easy." This apparently went back and forth several times until the teacher looked at the gentlemen in the room, and asked if they could explain to this woman what she was saying. The gentlemen explained what the actual meaning was. The woman looks at the teacher and states, "I'm not easy!!"
@@comptegoogle5071 "l'm easy" means you will go along with anything, usually ending up in bed. Usually when a it is in reference to a girl, they mean she will go to bed with anyone, usually for one night stands. "Easy on the eyes" means they are beautiful. What she probably meant was " That is easy" to answer the situation. I'm refers to herself, that refers to the inanimate object, the answer. It is a difficult concept.
Bro I have to buy vitamin D because I never leave my room and if I overheard this conversation I would pull my phone out record the conversation and then die on the floor laughing
One of my Spanish professors told our class that when he was recently arrived from Spain to teach in North Carolina, he was at a faculty meeting where someone was having to use a lot of tissues. Trying to be sympathetic, he used the English equivalent of a word that in Spanish is a synonym for congestion, asking his total-stranger new colleague, "Are you constipated?" 🤧 😂
My former landlord used to tell me stories about living in the Canaries, trying to speak Spanish. He did the same sort of things, like trying to tell the telephone ladies, "I'm speed walking for exercise," but instead saying, "I'm hurrying to my execution!" Or confusing "a su servicio" (go to a public toilet) for "con su servitio" (at your service.) (I may have spelled those wrong, since it was a story he told me face to face. Also, my phone strictly refuses to do diacritical marks.)
And my sister, while living in Germany, told her landlady she heard hunters doing something in the woods, but the word she used was NOT "shooting." Similar sound, different vowel.... Another guest happily congratulated her on her excellent hearing....
Oh my oh my 🫣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭, I’m dying here !!! Thank you for making me laugh, you have no idea how hard these past few days have been, so I am thanking you from the bottom of my heart, you are a blessing to others.
😂😂😂god, I laughed so hard at work tears were coming out. We all know what’s like as first generation immigrants with parents trying to learn English. Hats off to them for trying so hard.❤😊
