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What Should I Call "You"? Part 3: Using Family Roles/Social Roles

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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What's the Difference Between Grandma and Grandpa?

In the south we call grandmab, like all the grandmalets have different grandma names. I've seen in i there was a grandma called mima. Our daughter studied calling her grandmother. And then she just naturally acquired mima for gramma, and then b pa for grandpa. Bepa, actually, my, my great grandpa was around for a while when i was a kid, and we called him papa. That was a but allid. It's more like, i think it in thos, southern oxen, it's more like may. My sister in law has kids that are probably six and seven, and they call their grandma jiji

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