PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
The Parents Ask
A video call from Seattle at the family table on the pier, Jack in the middle: Mom asks whether we're coming back; say you go back every hot season; Dad asks whether it's for good; answer that yes, for good; Mom says Aunt Oy must come over; say I'm afraid of planes, but I'll go; ask when he's coming; I'll tell him: relaying a question and an answer.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
The family table on the pier at Bang Rak, an evening in December, a phone propped against the teapot with Jack's parents on the screen: Jack says the polite word to Aunt Oy and Uncle Chai and relays his parents into Thai; they call him Jack, no particle.
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