Feb 12th a fun day, Chinese language, Eurasian

On the Way to School" Series, Season 2 Episode 24

Join a working mom and her teenager for the real, unfiltered conversations that happen on the way to school. as they navigate everything from the big questions about life, friendships, and the future, to the daily chaos of homework, pop culture, Background music and constant disagreement . No experts, no scripts—just honest talks in the one place we're all a captive audience: the car. It's a podcast for parents and teens who know the morning drive is about more than just getting from point A to point B

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:05

I don't know the routes because a hundred digits is a bit too much for me. Play that song. 100 digits or five? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Hundred digits.

SPEAKER_04 0:18

ASAP science presents 100 digits of pie.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

850. Oh, eight, eight. And now we're on the screen. 38 and 32. Now we're flu over new. 7950. And then a two. 88 and 41. So much fun. Now we're running. So much. Where's the wine? It's on the four that nine for four by five.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

I wish. We should buy it. What? Yes, that was very impressive.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

42117.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Yes, that was the 100 digits of five.

SPEAKER_04 1:21

And now A subscience presents elements of the periodic table.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

So you can be the floor finity.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

It's the periodic table. You know the periodic table now? Oh yes, I know. I know the periodic table. You do?

unknown 1:59

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

Those are the digits of pie, no? Oh, that's a digital pie, yeah. Periodic table for chemistry. Ah, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

You don't know the periodic table.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

I know. No, that's a stable. The funny thing is when I learned periodic table, uh my teacher uh taught that in Shanghainese, not even in Mandarin. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 2:26

Can you speak Shanghainese?

SPEAKER_02 2:28

It's very strange. I don't want to do that. You could talk to Daniel's parents, mom. In Shanghainese. I think yeah. I think I met Daniel's parents a couple of times.

SPEAKER_05 2:40

Did you know Daniel's name is actually?

SPEAKER_02 2:44

What? I do not know his name.

SPEAKER_05 2:49

Because his last name is B. It's very funny.

SPEAKER_02 2:52

B.

SPEAKER_05 2:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

B.

SPEAKER_05 2:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

B-I-P. Daniel P B uh B o canal. B. B. We should say it in a different accent. So B.

unknown 3:01

B.

SPEAKER_05 3:02

And his name is Daniel, but his Chinese name is Bing.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

I say Chinese name is what? Yeah. B Ling. Yeah. That's a not very common name in Chinese.

SPEAKER_05 3:16

I know. We said B is a very uncommon class.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

Yes, B is.

SPEAKER_05 3:22

He also said his name and that he was better than King.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Oh! Yes, what a poor guy, but at least he's always first in the alphabetical list, man. I'm always in the middle. I'm also in the middle. Yes, Leon, we have the same last name. You know, in Chinese, normally you don't sequence people with alphabet because alphabet is not from China, it's coming from Western. You sequence something with uh um with how how many letters, uh how many like uh uh how many strokes do you have to write for your name? The smallest is in the front. If your name is so complicated, it's sound effects. What about B? I'm trying to compare B with Kerr because your last name is Kerr. Yes, pretty R sense. B is very front, only six. Ker is also not so complicated.

SPEAKER_05 4:30

The little circle adds one.

SPEAKER_02 4:31

Yes, uh my my boyfriend in university, his name is two letters. It's a ting li. The first letter has two, the second letter also has two. So in total maybe so it always says the prom. My guy has a line with another line through it. That's what it's saying. What?

SPEAKER_03 4:50

Yeah, it's very nonsense has two. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

Right. So technically Z's last name is six.

SPEAKER_05 5:35

No, that that's not a Chinese term for self-decision. Like a bunch of puns. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Right.

SPEAKER_05 5:45

I told him your Chinese name.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

Why didn't you tell him your Chinese name?

SPEAKER_05 5:49

I'll tell him my Chinese name.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 5:51

But I said Chen Chinese.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

Well officially, because uh in the uh hide the path, it's not.

SPEAKER_05 6:10

Yet and and spiritually, I emphasize my Chinese ancestors who took the name Chen.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

Chen is pretty common though. It's okay.

SPEAKER_05 6:20

It's really common.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

Yeah, Chen is very common. K it's also okay. K is uh not a common chem, but it's not uncommon. We found K on one of those things where you try to find your name. You know, by souvenirs. I never find my English name there. It's always a lean.

SPEAKER_05 6:38

Mom, I just why did you call us Lia Min and Leon Yan? Well, where did she go?

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Yeah, why not Liam Ming and Leon Yang?

SPEAKER_05 6:47

Like, why? It's so confusing.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

Uh what's wrong with that? Sorry. No, just a question.

SPEAKER_05 6:54

Like, if our Chinese names are Ming and Yang, why didn't you call us Liang Yang and Lea Ming instead of Liang Yan and Liam?

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Oh what? Okay, Mom. You named us Lia Ming and Leon Yang. Not Yang. Yeah, instead of Ming and Yang. Ah, okay. Where I'm going because uh I was uh uh it's also confusing because there's a name in German called it Young. Y-A-N uh J-A-N.

SPEAKER_05 7:25

Yeah, but uh that makes it more confusing because everyone thinks it's well with a J. You didn't really help me.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Sorry. Sorry.

SPEAKER_05 7:33

And Min isn't even named anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Tiffany Lee. Is Lee a common asleep? Li is a very common asleep. Yeah, okay. Tiffany has a common like a blues lead. Oh, you know blues li. I thought it was a double e. Uh when people write double in they might be coming from uh Hong Kong area because uh Kantonese had different pronunciation than Mandarin, and then they spell that different than Mandarin. Even it's the same letter in when we written the same, but the pronunciation is different. So Yam Dam E V C double E.

SPEAKER_05 8:06

I wonder because in Cantonese like the written letters are the same, but are like the tinging also the same? Because maybe it's different.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

No, no, they have an they are much more complicated than uh Mandarin. So you could be Cantonese but not speak it.

SPEAKER_05 8:19

The hotel I feel like not a lot of people go to China because every time that lady at the hotel tried to speak to me, she kept trying to show me Chinese letters. Because her assumption was that I was from another part of China that didn't speak Mandarin and not out of China.

SPEAKER_02 8:35

In um America?

SPEAKER_05 8:37

No, in that hotel.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

Oh, when we first came to America, they tried to communicate with me through Google Translate, and they keep kept showing me um Chinese letters that I didn't know yet because we weren't that big. Yeah, but I was in first grade. We only got through like half of the first book. You only got to one, two, three, four, five, six. Yeah, so would you fight. Yeah, exactly. First grade me did not know those letters, man. They didn't even try German, I think.

SPEAKER_05 9:08

It would have gone better.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

Yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_05 9:10

Yeah, I mean, it they were Americans of more stereotypes. They're gonna pick what they're gonna pick the fact that we're Chinese, not the fact that we're German.

SPEAKER_02 9:17

The fast way for you to pick up Chinese is to watch Chinese episode with the subtitle. Yes, I agree. I've been watching more shows.

SPEAKER_05 9:24

In theory, that does work, but also I've watched Japanese episodes and subtitles my entire life, and uh No, that's not uh that's not uh the same because you don't have a Japanese fundamental.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

Girl! It's okay. You don't have Japanese fundamentals. Chinese you have fundamentals, so it's easy. It's like uh I I learn English. Yeah, I learn English, uh actually I know how to speak English, although my English is still very bad. It's not after yeah, because um I watched American episode. When I was in China, I barely can speak English.

SPEAKER_05 9:57

Like is that why you watch so many sitcoms like Friends and Big Fang Theory?

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Yeah, Friends uh uh Sex and City Big Fang series. I didn't take you for a sex and city type of girl. Uh I don't think they have shame. But at least it helps me on my English in terms of speaking. Yeah. I've been watching um Gillsley studio movies, studio cover, whatever. But they are Japanese. Yes, but I watched them in Chinese. Yeah, but they the two ladies sitting next to us then, yeah. It's from Korea, huh?

SPEAKER_05 10:27

Who?

SPEAKER_02 10:28

But the two ladies sitting next to us during dinner.

SPEAKER_05 10:32

Well, where are they from?

SPEAKER_02 10:33

Korea.

SPEAKER_05 10:34

Yes, probably, but you said North Korean, and I think that's highly unlikely.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

You said North Korean? I said it's n he said Japan, I said a bit more north.

SPEAKER_05 10:44

You said North Korea. No, no. You said North and then you said Korea, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Yes, yes, I said North. Yeah, bye. Okay, Leo.

SPEAKER_05 10:51

She said I think it's more North Korea than what am I supposed to think?

SPEAKER_02 10:55

I said it's more north. I think there was a little company.

SPEAKER_05 11:00

She doesn't speak only.

SPEAKER_02 11:04

Oh, but yet it didn't know it's not like a wah. My dinner was really good. What do you? Uh the pasta.

SPEAKER_05 11:16

A slightly spicy shrimp ugly or something.

SPEAKER_02 11:19

Sprague ugly oily with uh uh shrimp ah you gotta know one of you like it. Oh so like and they have also a little bit uh chili, so it's a little bit spicy. Leon, say cheese. Leon, yeah, say cheese. I asked you to make a photo, you say yes, and you did not send me. Oh shoot, I didn't leave that yesterday because I thought you didn't want it anymore. I asked you to send it to me. You didn't then you send it in the water. Oh my god, why is she so aggressive? I'm not aggressive, it's like uh you just have to write on me. Whoa, wow, does that sound familiar? It's this one, though.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Yeah, yeah, see how I still have it. Hmm, hmm. I can fix my own problems, guys. What did you do? You want to make selfie with Lenny? Uh yeah, to Santa Maria, but he decided to decline my office.

SPEAKER_05 12:28

Wait, what?

SPEAKER_01 12:33

Vanchica.

SPEAKER_05 12:37

Wait, oh my god. I don't have glasses. What do you want?

SPEAKER_02 12:41

Who cares? You look very nice without glasses. You look more and more nice, actually. To Maria. What fuck you Maria? He likes Maria? Uh no. He hates Maria. No. It's more platonic. You know what that means? Not in love. Like friends. Oh, okay. He has girlfriends.

SPEAKER_05 13:05

No.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

No, he has friends with female, sorry.

SPEAKER_05 13:07

Not really friends. We're like we're nice to each other. But she doesn't know.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

Yeah, somebody nice to him in female. Wow. Oh wow. It's all it's all very positive. No, very un very unusual, but very positive.

SPEAKER_05 13:21

She's one of the many Ukrainian people in my face.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

She's from Ukraine?

SPEAKER_05 13:26

Yeah, there's a lot of Ukrainian people.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

Then she must be very good looking. But most of actually uh Slavish people, maybe most of Eastern Europe girls have better than German girls.

SPEAKER_05 13:38

Yes, obviously, German girls are fugly. And Slavic people, which is like Ukraine, Russia, they're your sister is half German. Yes, but my sister's Wassian. Wassian people are good looking.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

German people are Western Asian. We won't look Weijian, she's Asian. That's a new name I learned today.

SPEAKER_05 14:03

No Asian is it's an entire community of people who are half uh Southeast Asian, and these parents probably also destroyed their childhood by uh struck them across multiple countries.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

Started with Almi. So you are Weijan boy and then kids sing kids smile. That's why you look so nice and nice, huh? You made some qualitative contribution. Roar 29 girls in your kids singing smile. Although I'm not good looking for them, but you guys good looking, soar.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

I feel so good looking.

SPEAKER_05 14:57

Hell yeah, look at what I can do. Ra!

SPEAKER_02 15:00

I don't know, you can't go check it with the car behind me. Let me in. Just go in front. Let's go more forward.

SPEAKER_05 15:07

Do it, mom. Do it.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

Yeah, just cut on it.

SPEAKER_05 15:09

Right now. If you don't do it now, you're with you. He's letting you in.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

Yeah. There you go.

SPEAKER_05 15:15

Like it was supposed to be an aggressive takeout, but he's just letting it happen.

SPEAKER_02 15:19

Which is very nice. My nail broke. Not these nails, this nail, like my real nail broke. See today I'm not betting with you. Before 55? No, I say even that would also betting with you. Man, but the six are higher this time. Um stranging. The later you are, the longer it takes. Right. Okay, before eight. I say under. Oh shoot, that's why you asked for bubblegum. Oh man, I'll get you bubble gum, don't worry. It's in my sports bag.

unknown 15:58

Bubble gum.

SPEAKER_02 15:59

Yeah, I don't have my sports bag though. Yeah, because today I look at my watch at 7.25. Laia's still not downstairs. No. The chance keeps getting later is high. I mean, to be fair, you weren't ready at 7.25.

SPEAKER_05 16:13

I'm not ready because uh but that was I was downstairs at like 230 before. I was very ready.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

And you were not downstairs. You weren't forget something.

SPEAKER_05 16:26

I forget my marble, but if you had come earlier, I would have probably just forgotten my marble. Honestly, it all depended on you, and you just can't be that way. You gotta be a role model.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

I have been a role model for a couple of times. Uh okay, I'm saying the songs, I guess. Daddy's so excited going back to Ireland with Leon Yang at some man's time. Call it man's time. Yeah, actually called man's time. Like in English. Yeah. Actually, well.

SPEAKER_04 16:59

He didn't say that to me. He said, uh laughing behind the mana.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Mana, mana more.

SPEAKER_04 17:07

That's so funny.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

No, not funny.

SPEAKER_01 17:09

He didn't say that.

SPEAKER_02 17:10

It's funny when dad says that.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:12

Then why'd you laugh when I said it? Not when dad said it.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Because when you said that, I'm picturing dad saying that. What's up with the judgment, Leon? Someone's crowded this morning.

SPEAKER_05 17:25

Hey, look at this. Leah, look at this.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Oh my god, it's my cat! I swear he has green eyes though. I don't know where they are.

SPEAKER_05 17:34

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

Oh my god. Another picture of my cat. Yeah, you let those. Oh my god, it's that weird kid. Sorry.

SPEAKER_06 17:41

Should not have runs them.

SPEAKER_02 17:43

Oh my god, it's that girl that always follows me around. Why was that racist?

SPEAKER_06 17:55

There's actually some pieces that weird.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

He's white. I'm white. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_06 18:01

You're awakening.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

You're awakening, you're not white. Yeah, white Asian.

SPEAKER_06 18:04

Western Asian.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

Western Asian. Yes, but I'm still white.

SPEAKER_06 18:08

Italian people aren't white.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

Yes, they are. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 18:11

Oh, French people aren't white.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Yes, they are.

SPEAKER_06 18:13

No, white people are British and American.

SPEAKER_02 18:15

What?

SPEAKER_06 18:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

Okay, fine. I'm Western Asian, then damn.

SPEAKER_05 18:21

Yeah, okay, Germans are also white. Basically, uh every European slash Western country that I believe us are with you think about the racist country.

SPEAKER_02 18:28

No, uh uh South European many are not. We're not talking about skin colour, right? Um white representative skin colour, no? No, no, race colour.

SPEAKER_05 18:42

Italian people are white.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

No, they aren't white. Italian Spain for me, they are white.

SPEAKER_05 18:46

Scandinavians. They're Scandinavian.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 18:53

Yeah, it's actually all okay flubbish people.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Slubbish?

SPEAKER_05 19:00

Yeah, like old.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Yeah, yeah. This is rubbish. I'm so curious to see you guys uh getting into a relationship.

SPEAKER_03 19:11

So I asked like, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

I think eventually you're going to get in your life. Come on. I did.

SPEAKER_05 19:18

I don't even want to have children.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

Meaning. That had nothing to do with having children. Guys are family lines us here. Sorry guys. Nothing to do with family as well. No, I know.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

Rebecca and your father will have to pass on to channel 80.

SPEAKER_05 19:36

Oh, we're later in the bus. Mom parts quicker.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

Jeez, leave the poor girl alone.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

You got that one is so recognizable as it's like Bye bye.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Bye-bye.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Have a good day.

unknown 19:58

Yeah.