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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 ![]() |
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![]() durian ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,124 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,860 ![]() |
lol Julia. You know, I'm half Chinese! But I can't speak it so yea. Are you Cantonese? If you are and you started speaking to me, I'd probably run to my mom and ask her to translate. :P
Anyways, well I remember I sad something in Vietnamese to my boyfriend and I was WTF?! I couldn't believe it came out of my mouth! I mean, I'm always self-conscious when it comes to speaking Vietnamese because usually I'm always nervous and I NEVER know if I'm pronouncing anything right. It sounds like I'm JUST learning to speak Vietnamese or something haha. Of course, I CAN understand Vietnamese most of the time, but I answer in English. Anyway, I do find myself talking about food and since I know the names of quite a few vietnamese foods, I would start talking and say it and my non-Vietnamese friend would be like "What?" ... Yea.. I LIKE FOOD. ![]() |
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