Name: 當你的父母說得一口爛英文 (When Your Parents Speak Broken English)
Uploaded: 2018-06-17T21:01:03.000Z
Duration: 4 min 55 s

過去簡單式

- A bunch of kids were like making fun of me, like,

why does your mom say say your name weird?

「為什麼妳媽媽把你的名字念的那麼奇怪啊？」

I was acting and singing in my first musical play.

在我的第一場音樂劇表演，我表演了演戲和唱歌

- I remember my teacher said that I was doing

because I had to translate that to my mom.

- There was this time that the dryer broke.

But he goes to the store, comes home and he tells me,

他出門去店裡買，回家之後卻跟我說

I'm like, dad, I don't know, there's no thum-o-stat.

我說：「爸! 我不知道什麼事很穩器。」

And he talks to the guy again and then I'm like,

我爸又再跟店員講了一次，然後我才發現

He was like, sometimes you just have to try

我爸就說：「有時候你就是要試著

- The telemarketer, they'd come, and she'd say,

有一次電話推銷員打來，然後我媽就

hey, come talk to them, and I would stand on the phone.

叫我去跟他們說，然後我拿著電話

I'd find out that they were trying to convince me,

like a, you know, seven to eight year old,

trying to sell me insurance and I don't know how

- Every afternoon my mom would walk my brother and I

每天下午我媽媽都會帶我跟弟弟

This little girl started kicking sand in my direction.

有一次一個小妹妹開始朝著我的方向踢沙

she puts her hand over her legs, and she just said, stop.

把手放在她的腳上方，然後說：「停！」

There were four or five big women pushing each other

接著四、五個高大的女人爭先恐後地

out of the way, grabbing each other by the shoulders saying,

互相推擠著衝過來，一邊搶著說

let me get a piece of her, let me get a piece of her.

「讓我來給她好看！」、「讓我來給她好看！」

My mom just sort of stood there like why are you talking

「你們在跟我說什麼？ 發生什麼事？」

I stood in front of her, eight year old me,

and I just did this with my hands to protect my mom.

There were all these horrific things that were being said

她們對著我媽罵了好多好難聽的話

to my mom and I had to translate all of that.

Now I was crying and, you know, standing behind her

我哭了！不知道該怎麼辦，站在我媽身後

- Because her priorities were always work, work, work

因為我媽媽的重心，一直是工作、工作和工作

in order to survive she had no time and energy

為了要生存，她沒有時間和精力

- When it comes to shame, I feel like not only do they

那種丟臉的感覺，是我最先衝擊到我的

feel it but I get the first wave of that shame.

Having to hear things like why don't your parents

You know, while your dad or your mom are here in

然後爸爸或媽媽同時在背後一邊說：

oh, that lady, she didn't treat us very well.

「她好像對我們不是很友善耶! 」

You know, she spoke like she was very mean.

「看她說話的樣子，好像態度很差。」

- Since I was a young child trying to help translate

for my parents people always had this idea that I didn't

have the capabilities of understanding what the

- And I know that when I was younger, I'd, oh God,

噢!天哪! 我小的時候，真的感到非常挫折

「媽，你可以教我寫一個句子嗎?」

I'm sorry, mija, I don't know how to do that.

「爸，你可以教我寫一個句子嗎？」

- She came home from work and she was, like,

有一次我媽媽下班回到家，看起來非常沮喪

acting very frustrated and I was like, mom, what's up?

And she was like, you know Sara, you don't understand!

my biggest regret in my entire life is that

I didn't teach my mom more English when I was a kid.

My parents had to flee the country so every time

I have to translate for them I think about

所以每當我需要幫他們翻譯，我都會想

why do I even have to do that and it's because

我需要做這些，都是因為他們要成就我

they sacrificed so much to be here for me.

- Now that I'm older I feel like they don't even

Knowing more than I should know about my parents,

當我還小的時候，就必須比別人更了解自己的父母

as a younger kid, makes me feel much more capable

這讓我覺得，我長大後更有能力

- I just want to tell my parents how much I'm grateful

我只想要跟我的父母親說，我有多麼感謝他們

for them regardless of sometimes this forced

雖然我常常會有這種強迫的責任感

responsibility of having to be there and translating

It's the least I can do to repay them for all