#with hainanese/cantonese/malaysian parents and grandparents

[sun-pluto]

i think it’s a. very specific experience when you grew up being taught english as your first language, but because your parents speak multiple languages, they speak them when they don’t want you to understand what they’re saying. so instead you grow up eavesdropping and secretly learning that language so you can understand what they don’t want you to hear.

i’m pretty sure i speak for a lot of people HAHA but it’s still specific!!!

#it’s also a specific experience when you’re chinese but your parents both don’t speak mandarin #and the education system just like. holes all chinese ppl into speaking mandarin. #i grew up with SHITTY ways of learning languages and only just now realised how unfair this was to me #none of my family speaks mandarin because we use dialects #and my chinese teachers would always shame me for not being able to speak mandarin when LITERALLY wtf i was a KID #with hainanese/cantonese/malaysian parents and grandparents #how tf would i know mandarin right from the start #but anyway now i know so. it’s on to speaking the other languages well now. #i even have an astrology explanation for this. #i have pluto+chiron in 3rd #like yeah it was shitty but i still know multiple languages now #even if i don’t speak some of them fluently #i think that is still p cool #m #talking