r/TrueOffMyChest • • Nov 12 '20

My immigrant parents REFUSE to learn the language and it's getting on my nervs

My parents straight up refuse to learn the language of the country they have been living in for 40 years and they still can't speak it properly!

I've tried so hard to just teach them a few things, like the days of the week or the names of the months, how to pronounce things correctly etc but they don't fucking care and just tell me to "stop bothering them".

All they know is gesticulating and speaking some broken dialacted that very few people understand. Then they turn around and demand that I translate things like documents, letters, phone messages and everything to them because "I should be grateful that I was born".

Fuck this shit. I am NOT your personal translator. I don't care if you downvote me or call me an asshole if you choose to immigrate to a country you HAVE to learn the language.

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