for all the bilinguals Options

[*Weird addiction*]

This is a thread mainly for bilinguals. Does it get annoying when you mix up languages? I swear, i do it often...too often.

I speak English and i study in french at school. I'm currently learning dutch being it's the 2nd official language in Belgium. And i'm pretty good at it.

I tend to mix these 3 languages A LOT. It gets frustrating sometimes. I was talking to my dad on the phone, asking for money (he speaks only english and dutch), i was like:
i need vingt euros.
He was like "wtf?" haha. Or sometimes when he's talking to me, he says "de dingen" meaning "the thing" in dutch. I usually say "alors" instead of "so". Pff. I speak french to my friends but sometimes english comes out of my mouth. It's soo frustrating. Even to my teacher...i was like "i've got a question" and she's like "tu viens de dire quoi?" Lol. My nose was red...my nose hardly gets red since i'm more black than white.
It happens a lot. Some people think it's cute. .

But it's got it's advantage...i insult ppl sometimes, haha. Few months ago, after having sex with my boyfriend, i was like "tu crains au lit"...he thought it was a compliment...i'm not going to translate...but he did "craint".

Anyways, does this happen to you guys too?? I have to watch what i say almost everytime

[Gigi]

Haha, yeah that happens to me. I go back to Hong Kong a few times a year, and there's always a cycle. I go to Hong Kong, I force myself to speak more Cantonese but a lot of it comes out as broken English. Eventually I get more used to speaking in Chinese, and that's usually around the time I go back to Canada. Then I can't stop speaking Cantonese. =p

Other than that, at home I usually speak one or the other for different sentences, I don't usually have two languages in one sentence. =]