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

[lilxroxy]

mostly chinglish or spanglish or japenglish

[ecargnmyst]

well..i actually have to mix up languages when i speak w/ my grandfather/uncles b/c they speak at least 5 languages
spanish, mandarin, taiwanese, japanese, french so when i speak to them and i dont know the word in one language ill switch to another language..i find this more of an advantage

but yeah..i guess its embarassing when another language accidentally slips when ur speaking english..it only happened to me wen i was littler but it happens to my mom all the time..and i used to be embarrassed for her..o.O

[Winter]

I mix English, Malay, Mandarin and Cantonese up all the time. But this is common for every Malaysian.

[Jeng]

hmm not really..only to my grandma..hha i tend to forget many words in chinese because well i can underatnd it well, but not speak it.so when i talk to her,i use chinese words that i know and mix it up with english.and she kind of understands but if she doesnt, i give up and ask my cousins if their there to help me.
chinese,english,and a lil french from school..but mostly english.

andandandand...sometimes i know words in chinese that i tend to forget the word in english..like one time in 5th grade i think,my teacher asked what i had for dinner,so i said chinese food, and he said what kind, and i forgot the words in english for it, and i said to him 'i dont know how to say it in english' because i had forgotten the word.it was brocolli.. ;x so i told him vegetable.
it happens sometimes

[silver-rain]

Well, whenever I'm trying to say something in Chinese, I'm always thinking in Spanish and get them mixed up.

[Dark's Angel]

I mix French and Spanish up alot. the colors for me are pretty easy to mix up. IWhen I speak japenglish its pretty funny. Only my little brother can know what i'm saying....

[demolished]

Mine is completely is separate.