We’re trying to raise Baby-Ao to be trilingual, so the language I’m responsible for is Mandarin Chinese, which is a big ask, since my Chinese is laughably crap. I went back home for my friend’s wedding this past November, and the guys who knew me from back in the days were quite stunned that I was speaking so much Chinese – probably more Chinese in the course of several hours, than they had ever heard from me during the years they had known me.

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