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I was quietly eating dinner at the table. Mom wasn't home, then came home, and was in the kitchen finding food. She didn't ask grandparents how they were today. "...not in the mood," she said. The TV channel had on movie trailers and Vietnamese commentary. Grandpa noticed grandma fell asleep. "Are you sleeping?!" He gave us the remote and said it was time for her to listen to prayers/chanting. Everyone seemed really bored. I decided to put Duolingo back on my phone and cast it to the TV. At first no one was really into it. My grandma read some of the words. It was mostly me learning Vietnamese. Then my mom came and we finished 4 modules. THEN I switched it to French at my mom's request. I changed it so that she and my grandpa, who knows French, could play the French/Vietnamese, and then my task was to translate the prompt into Vietnamese. It was fun! It was hard.... How will I ever remember all the symbols?! One of the last prompts was "un lettre" with a picture of mail. I translated to "thu" (thuhhh) and my grandpa said "thu" (thoouuy). I asked, what's the difference? My mom said it's the same. My grandpa said it's thouuuyyyy. My grandma said of course it's different, one word sounds like this, and one sounds like this (literally). I was so confused. But my grandma was the tie breaker and said it's the same. My grandma said he studied in both bac and nam and there is one real correct way to say it, but the townsfolk changed it. LOL. It was funny. I think we also did 4 French to English to Viet (me talking aloud) modules. So many little "nuances" I didn't know about in Vietnamese. I feel like a 5 year old! But this whole family activity that was educational and fun was nice. My grandma could not get up sooner to go to bed though. Haha. :D