What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.
I just wrote down “Tengo eine Katze” and then put my head in my hands
Whenever someone addresses me in a language I don’t understand my first reflex is to answer in Norwegian. It’s just unfortunate if the person was in fact speaking Italian or Czech.
I am only fluent in English and I have a few words in Korean and Spanish but it still happens, I’ll be trying to say no in Spanish and my brain is like here is the non English word you are looking for and it’s 아니
thrilled to report this doesn’t just happen for verbal languages. my brain will present a welsh word when i’m trying to remember a sign and vice-versa
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