She's actually Portuguese! But my father is Japanese and... honestly we have a house in Japan but I can't even say I spent my childhood there because we spent a lot of it bouncing around between homes. My own Japanese was SUPER rusty too until I moved back here and worked in a Japanese Burlesque place for a bit.
... Anyway it would actually be hysterically funny if you called my mother an impudent shrimp. Even if you did it on purpose.