Yeah I’ve said that before too actually. XD it’s not like I can’t translate, it’s like….I’m not sure what the English equivalent is? Like familial titles. The names for a Chinese family tree are literally like a huge question mark for me to translate into English lol. I remember, a few years ago, there was this hilarious video about two Chinese people listing out entire family tree and I was literally blown away by how many names there are. And I wouldn’t even know what half those names would be in English because the names in English would probably end up MUCH MUCH LONGER. Like “‘my uncle’s sister’s daughter’s husband” or some long af thing. But in CHINESE, there would be a TITLE lol. Or you would just call everyone “uncles or aunts” but not us lol.

https://youtu.be/nCFRoILS1jY

Spanish family trees are... large.
You have your cousins/uncles/aunts. Then second-degree cousins/aunts/uncles.
And then all those relatives who you can't really pin down but you refer them as cousins/uncles/aunts anyway (because saying third-degree or fourth or fifth sounds a bit too unfamiliar).
If you marry, you will have pretty much all the relatives from your in-laws. So my husband's cousins/uncles/aunts are now mine too.

Want another funny Spanish saying?
"The more of a cousin, the closer you get." (Nope, it does not make any sense gramatically, that's the way it is.)
Because in small villages instead of saying "oh, no, we are just friends" you would really use as an excuse "well, he's my cousin" xD


English is an easy language imho, because grammar is quite simple.
Yeah, there are no proper pronunciation rules (the whole idea of people needing to learn to spell their own language is so amusing!) but I think it's not the biggest issue you may have when learning a language.

Yeah if I had to choose, I would say English is pretty straightforward compared to other languages. At the very least, they have an easy and recognizable alphabet and as long as you understand the bare basics, it’s pretty simple. Sometimes, the bare basics for other languages seems so much more complicated. XD

I sometimes want to do those ancestry things. Where you send in your DNA and they do a family tree thing. Sounds kinda cool.

I once decided to figure out my family tree.
I have plenty of old papers from my dad's side so that was quite easy - just reading who married whom, and whose son was this or the other one.
My mom's was quite harder, because they did not keep certificates that old at home, and asking administrations about old documents is quite a hassle.

There are some interesting stories in my family tree.
Such as two sisters whose husbands were cousins. Both couples had children.
One of the women and one the men died, so the remaining two married between them (apparently this was quite a frequent practice, so none of them would be "alone" to raise their children) and had more children.
So the eldest "siblings" were actually cousins on maternal side and second-cousins on paternal side, and also half-siblings of the youngest ones.
o_O

Or more recently, my grandfather's youngest sister... who was not a sister at all!



I don't think those DNA tests are actually any interesting.
They can track statistical similarities so they may have quite accurate information regarding your genetics origin - but that's so farfetched imho.
What do I care where my ancestors were several thousands of years ago? While I would love to hear about two or three hundreds ago, genetics do not change fast enough to give that information.


And, sure, goverments may access such an information... if there is a lead that points there.
But I doubt they are combing all the DNA tests sites looking for matches which lead to solve old crimes.
So while useful I don't think it's so cool, they simply can prove now things to which they only had a suspicion.

I think checking DNA sounds cool though lol. Like what if I’m not completely Chinese and it shows in my DNA? XD I think it would be cool to have different racial markers in my DNA that I didn’t know of before lol.