First gen immigrant struggles 😭

[kitty]

My entire family except my siblings and I speak french as there first language. This is very relatable

[ZezeMimi]

My mom stopped speaking Spanish because she was brutally bullied for English being her 2nd language. She didn’t teach us Spanish because she was protecting us. I am not mad at her in the slightest, but knowing the language would greatly help me speak to all my relatives!

[parkerm]

My mom is Italian and my dad is Japanese…. And we had a nanny who was Mexican…. I should’ve learned so many languages but NOOOO

[julesa]

Agreed. I get so embarrassed as an adult for not being able to speak my languages😂

[coolblue_ocean]

So true!! My mom is Iranian and she stopped speaking Farsi to me as a baby and my dad is Cambodian and he eventually stopped speaking Khmer, it’s so hard to learn a language!

[tairaquinones]

Thank you! No one understands the struggle 🥲

[My.Melodyx.x]

My parents just talked the two of my native languages and let english and dutch up to school. I gotta say it worked well and in still learning more languages at school and at home for fun

[LiliiianS]

I am half russian half Moroccan. I ALWAYS lived in Morocco but We spoke russian at home, I spoke Moroccan/ arabic at school and with friends, I watched spanish tv shows because my mom couldn't learn Moroccan to speak with the locals and they all knew spanish, when I was 8 I also learnt french. Then english in High school. I am so grateful to my parents for putting me in such conditions to learn all these languages. I am not good at all of them obviously but I can understand and communicate still in all of them.

[officialblimp]

I was blessed to have my mom and dad both speaking spanish at home when I was younger so I can speak both english and spanish very well and I’m very grateful I can talk with my
family members when I go visit them

[Bunniib]

Sort of the same for me. I moved away from my home country, which was the Philippines, at around 5 yrs old. So my parents wouldn’t speak much Tagalog to me but would speak Tagalog to each other and my older brother. So I somehow adapted and learned to listen and understand instead of speak my native tongue. But as I got older, I started speaking Tagalog but only know the basics (still pretty broken Tagalog but enough to communicate).

It’s like this weird super power I have and serves me pretty well since I can listen in to all the gossip whenever my mom is on the phone with the aunties lol.

[Mei_lovesboba]

This is so true I lost speaking and understanding Tagalog since was 7 😭😭

[gripschan]

I feel this in my soul. My mom stopped speaking her native language to my sister and I. I assume it's because she was worried about us being made fun of or for having an accent... now as an adult I struggle to find my place with my culture, but I stead am focusing on living the best life I can with what I have

[Gracetoo]

This is me!!! I could have been bilingual 😒

[ArianyAcuna-mz]

Girl I love that dress 🥰😍🙂 and I love your videos 😍

[Hikari-san_chan]

Omigod so relatable!! When my parents moved to Australia we spoke tamil but when we were growing up my parents started to speak english so me and my sister would learn it better and now i am struggling to talk to my own grandparents in tamil! I can speak a bit but i am definitely not fluent

[mirrazvi]

I just got lucky, my mom taught me urdu and my dad taught me farsi. I lived in India & Iran for a few years then we moved to America. So im thankfully trilingual, im very grateful they both taught me their languages. 😅

[ariellehawman]

!!!! And then when family asks you why you don't speak it you can turn and look at your parents and say idk why!? Lol

[oko.nomi.yaki.]

im so glad my mom taught me japanese but yk it’s always never too late to learn!!

[Lisa-minci]

I feel like I’m so un-indian because I can’t speak Hindi or Tamil and I’ve never lived there either, but I don’t feel connected enough to the places I’ve actually lived 😭

[lucidrogue]

I can totally relate. Still can't speak Spanish properly 😢