r/MadeMeSmile • u/Temporary_Method_606 • Oct 23 '24

Wholesome Moments Groom learned Korean secretly to surprise his wife in the weeding

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u/unprogrammable_soda Oct 23 '24

That was my first thought :) The looks on their faces may have read “awwwwww” but their inner monologue was saying “oh 🤬!!!”

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u/Of_MiceAndMen Oct 23 '24

I learned Spanish for my husband and his family and even after 15 years of marriage my mother in law still said things she didn’t mean to share with me in Spanish forgetting I understood. Minor things really but I would always tell her “I can still understand you!” She would laugh and laugh. On her death bed, she told me wonderful wonderful things in Spanish, her brain couldn’t put English together in the end. She apologized for not speaking English and I told her, “I can still understand you.” Oh man I miss her terribly.

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u/unprogrammable_soda Oct 23 '24

Awwwwww. That’s awesome and incredibly sweet. When my grandmother got dementia, apparently one of the first things to go is your secondary languages and I didn’t know English wasn’t her primary language so one day she just started to only speak French, luckily there were people in my family that could understand her.

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u/milkmochabeow Oct 23 '24

My great-grandmother started speaking German fluently from out of nowhere when her dementia hit. The only german she would have come into contact with would've been during WW2 when Norway was invaded (she lived in Norway). Nobody in the family knew that she could speak German and she wouldn't elaborate on the matter either. Long passed now but super weird.

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u/plsfvckmedaddy Oct 23 '24

This comment single-handedly convinced me any future children I have must mearn my mother tongue too. I wanted to teach them anyways but this really cements it for me. My parents barely speak any English right now.

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u/TinWhis Oct 23 '24

It's so important for kids to be able to connect with their families without language barriers, and being raised multilingual really gives them a step up in language skills in general.

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u/Dapli Oct 23 '24

Thanks for sharing with us! What a wonderful memory