Name: Singaporean-Japanese Couple Q&A
Uploaded: 2020-05-22T08:06:56.000Z
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Past simple

Just now, you had a “lah” which was 100% correct.

I'm from Tokyo, and I now live in the Phili…

and we are here to visit family and relatives for Chinese New Year.

We met at the international student organization.

And I thought, “This guy has a really strong voice!”

after the show, we were talking and she was like

“There was this really good singer guy!”

like half American, half Singaporean English I guess.

you thought that by dating me, you would learn Chinese

Because her family speaks Chinese at home,

I was expecting to be able to speak Mandarin.

But in the end, I ended up learning Singlish.

Why are you still complimenting my Singlish?

A lot of times when we speak in languages that are not English,

it's phrases or expressions that don't exist in English.

and when we go grocery shopping and talk to the vendors

we point to the vegetables in the local language, Tagalog.

So the vegetables in our house are called in Tagalog actually.

Like, “I'll make miso shiru with talong.”

Whether my impression of you has changed? Well…

It was long overdue. He looked like a mushroom.

The first words she said to me at the very beginning was

Yeah, friendly enough to call you by first name.

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