donnusia:

hey-there-hunter:

hemminicky:

@emperorforshort I get your point, and I would probably agree with the whole notion that it’s not a difficult thing to “switch” between languages, so the original posts did totally have a valid point. But it’s also this weird phenomenon where you forget which language you just used or you end up using the “wrong” language that just happens to multilingual people. So greeting a non-spanish-speaking person in Spanish without realizing it at first (especially when tired or something) isn’t, to me at least, such an impossible concept. Altho who knows how the original fic meant it (there’s probably a higher possibility they didn’t mean the way I see it).

IM SO, SO SORRY FOR MY RAMBLING NOW BUT YEAH, HERE I COME

I can totally agree with you. Im native Polish speaker, my english is on the medium lvl I think and sometimes when im talking with my friends from other countries, not native english speakers, we switch to our native languages without realizing. I was a witness of my friend who was called by her dad and she started talking to him in english, then realized what she did and she stared at the wall for few seconds wondering which language she just used.
The worst thing about being multilingual is that you have to actually think about what you’re saying, and we all know those moments where our minds just reboots for few seconds.
Hell, when it was exams months, and I have to tell you that in Students Rights and Responsibilities we can have ONLY THREE EXAMS IN ONE WEEK and we had three exams, yeah, but in one day. One after one. For almost two months. So I was so tired once I started answering my teacher in English and I dint realized what im doing until I finished 10 minutes long lecture about why France fucked up during World War II and how we could won war in WEEKS. Not survive. WIN.
(Btw that situation enden with me, coffee-addicted and with insomnia).
I use english almost daily when im reading, writing, talking, I started thinking in english because this was its easier, and now sometimes I switch languages. Sometimes I forget SIMPLE words in my native language and use english version. You know how frustrating it is? Or when you forget english word, dude, writing this post I forget how “answer” is in english and ibhad to check it out and I almost started crying because its fucking “answer”.
So yeah, sometimes we answer in our native languages to simple, common questions or stuff like that amd then we stare into The Void ™ silently trying to remember how it actually is in fucking english. Or spanish. Or any other language we are talking in.

Backing up Hunter, because it happened to me so many times I think I’m starting to not care about it anymore.

Though having to repeat yourself, but in the other language does kinda suck.

Also, having to repeat yourself while translating your speech in your mind on the go is fucking hell.

That’s the cost of being multilingual.
You sometimes use wrong language.
Because for you its not wrong
Cause you understand both
Sometimes you can’t notice which one you’re actually using
Because
You
Know
Both