I have a trilingual grandmother who can speak Fukien, Mandarin, English, Tagalog and Bisaya. She can easily switch languages and dialects.
Having grown up in a Chinese-speaking family, studied in a Filipino school, had a daughter who started a family in America, and lived in a country of Filipino-speaking people, one would think that her language skills are not surprising.
Meanwhile, despite having such an amazing grandmother, I can only speak two languages, English and Filipino, the latter of which I’m working hard on improving through school.
Some months ago, I decided to self-study and learn Japanese, because I find it such a fascinating language and I love Japa…
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