One of my favorite T-shirts has the Chinese characters on it.

我最喜欢的一件 T 恤上有汉字。

youdao

T: Yeah, so I'm, my character is a very traditional woman, very traditional Chinese countryside woman. I think it's very very long word. But that's true.

恩，我的角色是一个很传统的女人，一个非常传统的中国农村里的女人，恩，非常长的一段前缀词啊，但是十分的贴切。

youdao

T: Yeah, so I'm, my character is a very traditional woman, very traditional Chinese countryside woman. I think it's very very long word.

恩，我的角色是一个很传统的女人，一个非常传统的中国农村里的女人，恩，非常长的一段前缀词啊，但是十分的贴切。

youdao

Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.

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Since my family couldn't understand Chinese, I thought we were going to be arrested.

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Since my family couldn't speak Chinese, I had to guide them, somehow, through more than 2, 000 miles in China and then into Southeast Asia.

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