English is my native language. I have on more than one occasion gone blank trying to think of a word, only to remember it in Japanese. Which is particularly amusing when it’s the kana-ised version of the English word I had forgotten.
Maybe it being an English root word helped you remember brains are weird
Spanglish much? Parlais Franglais? Denglisch sprechen?
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Slava Ukrainglish!
Ich spreche Deutsch ko materski.
Yes and I got teased about it mercilessly for weeks after. All in good fun.
Yes, especially with tech-words. Hell, I even don’t know what for example “exploit” means in my native language.
My thoughts are in English instead of Romanian and it’s terrfying
I’ve been colonized
My thoughts depend on what I’m thinking about
If I’m talking/writing in English I’m obviously thinking in English
Same with Polish
However, I tend to think of programming and computing stuff in English and maths stuff in Polish
All the fucking time. Now I’m at this phase of learning my third language, where it starts to sip in. I can’t sprechen normally anymore, send help пожалуйста.
I speak three languages and whenever I’m with someone that speaks the same languages, I’ll revert to a mix of grammar and vocabulary that covers all three languages. I’ll continuously pick the next word in the language that comes to mind first and I can literally switch language 5-10 times in a single sentence
Everyone hearing me talk in moments like that thinks I’m insane, but it works perfectly
Me and my wife both could speak 4 languages when we met, the first 3 years since we met, our conversation were so bad ‘grammatically’ we even had a big laugh when in a single paragraph I switched languages 6 times amog the 4 languages. I think as time went on we at least brought it down to 2 languages between us 95% of the time, but we also learned two more languages now and we have 6 languages common between us.
There is a big upside now, we always have a backup language if we wanna talk private things among people. (p.s. Most of both of our families are trilingual, with family youth at least understanding all 4 common languages, so it was hard to keep conversations private in family setting that forced us to learn 5th language, and 6th we had to learn when I moved to my current country)
Yes it happens, especially when you speak 3 languages. A year ago, I was mixing 2 languages by mistake and people where like “what???”. Lol
This always reminds me of our karate master back when I was going to trainings. One day his instruction was “one mawate zurück”. We don’t normally speak any of these languages.
ever since my brain got hard-wired to think in English despite it not being my native language.
I’m only fluent in English, but I know fragments of many different languages. I get jumbled sometimes, and it’s weird. When I’m in a lot of pain, I tend to speak or think in German, for example. This is unfortunate, given that I don’t actually know much German. I often slip into French when speaking or thinking about time — for this reason, the vast majority of my friends have learned that “Quelle here est-il?” means “what time is it?” due to how many times I’ve accidentally asked that question in French
I totally mistook that lightbulb in the background for a bowling pin for some reason on first glance.
Holy shit, i thought that only happen to me, the worst part it when is an “easy” word
