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Originally Posted by ItWasMe
So...your parents don't speak the language of the parents who raised them? Maybe you could teach your grandmother one simple sentence "Abaya home now, she okay, bye" so she can call your mother when you don't have time/resources to email her.
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It's a bit more complicated than that... first of all, my parents are my mom and stepdad. Yeah, my mom speaks her mother tongue (Thai) and English, but I'm talking about my Icelandic grandma, who only speaks Icelandic. Also, my Icelandic grandmother lives in Iceland--she does not like making international phone calls, and it would be a little absurd to ask her to call my Thai mother, living in America, every time I get home from a trip, just to utter one sentence. My Icelandic father died before I was born, and my stepdad only speaks English, not to mention that my parents are split up anyway (which is why they need separate phone calls). So no, none of them can be expected to call each other--I'm the only one who can manage that system of different languages and international phone calls on the computer (Skype).