PART 3 · LESSON 30 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
How a Month Became Six Years
Grandma's table on the Sunday before Chinese New Year, the whole family and the whole year as one story: the story goes like this; I know this one; I came for one month, that month had a boat; and the boat, is she finished yet; new ribs, next cool season she goes on the water; a film too, don't forget; so it came to be six years, and that's how it is; not the end, next year I'm ninety, and Jack makes the speech: how things came to be, and the end of this level.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
The family's house behind the pier in Bang Rak on the Sunday before Chinese New Year, lunch on the table: Jack says the polite word to Grandma and Uncle Chai and speaks as a friend with Tee; Grandma speaks plainly to everyone and says Grandma for I; Uncle Chai calls him Jack.
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