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Just now, you had a “lah” which was 100% correct.
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Yes.
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Hello, I'm Yuki Takeda.
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I'm from Tokyo, and I now live in the Phili…
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Argh.
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I live in the Philippines.
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I am currently in Singapore because
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my wife, Mika, is Singaporean
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and we are here to visit family and relatives for Chinese New Year.
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Hi, my name is Mika. Mika Tan.
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I'm from Singapore.
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We both studied in the US.
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We met at the international student organization.
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They had a cultural show event.
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He was singing on stage
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with a really wide Latin American hat.
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And I thought, “This guy has a really strong voice!”
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It was kind of funny because
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after the show, we were talking and she was like
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“There was this really good singer guy!”
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And I was like, “Uh, that was me?”
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We mostly speak in English,
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like half American, half Singaporean English I guess.
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I remember you told me before that
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you thought that by dating me, you would learn Chinese
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Yes.
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Because her family speaks Chinese at home,
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I was expecting to be able to speak Mandarin.
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But in the end, I ended up learning Singlish.
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But his Singlish is very good!
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It's already been like 8 years with you.
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Why are you still complimenting my Singlish?
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We've been together for so long.
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Well, because it has improved so much.
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Maybe.
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Whereas, my Japanese has deproved.
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No, it has not. It did not deprove.
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Deprove?
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That's Singlish.
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Deteriorate.
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A lot of times when we speak in languages that are not English,
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it's phrases or expressions that don't exist in English.
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Like Okaeri and Tadaima.
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Yeah, those things.
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Okaima…
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Okaima?
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You mean Okaimo.
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It's Tadaimo and Okaimo.
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Right now, we live in the Philippines,
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and when we go grocery shopping and talk to the vendors
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we point to the vegetables in the local language, Tagalog.
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So the vegetables in our house are called in Tagalog actually.
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Like, “I'll make miso shiru with talong.”
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Which is nasu. Eggplants.
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My first actual impression of this guy
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is that he's cute.
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Whether my impression of you has changed? Well…
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You're still cute.
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Thank you.
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I just had a haircut today.
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It was horrible until this morning.
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It was long overdue. He looked like a mushroom.
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The first words she said to me at the very beginning was
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“You're Yuki-kun, right?”
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Wait, did I do that?
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Yes.
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Okay, that's an embarrassing memory.
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I thought she was energetic.
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Cute.
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And very friendly.
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Yeah, friendly enough to call you by first name.
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The first time we met.
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