I think I mostly understood that...
except for the second character, which you're going to tell me and I'm going to feel dumb about later XD

yikes! D: 8 tones? I would die ._. the 5 in Chinese is bad enough!
I cheat, I mostly understand when people are speaking by context with the other sounds around it instead of knowing the tones XD

lol, that reminds me, when we went to Taiwan, they taught us some Tawainese slang XD