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chaque fois que j'ouvre la bouche pour parler : si ça fait du sens ?

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please reblog everyone!! i’m very curious 👀

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Okay, so I definitely agree with the people who advise writers that bilingual people don’t randomly switch languages when talking to people, or “forget to switch” when around people who only speak x language and not y

But do any other bilingual people ever mutter in a combination to themselves?

I just grumbled at my database “Mr. Alfonso, dónde the fuck are you?”

Other people please tell me you also do this. 🤣🤣

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no language should be mocked other than french

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Sometimes I'm just reading something in a language different from my mother tongue, whether is an article for college, a book, fanfic or simply a post here and I'm stuck with the fact that I'm indeed understanding it. And I stand there like holy shit I can understand this, I'm reading it and it makes sense and I know how to modify that sentence to make it easier or harder to understand, or could name a few synonyms for that word and even antonyms and is so so amazing like our mind are amazing, we can!! learn!! so !! many !! writing systems !! and!! sentence structure !! and!! grammar !! and !! vocabulary!! and whole ass LANGUAGES!!

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For all my bilingual/multilingual babes:

Does your voice change when you speak English? Like my voice is a tone lower in English and even becomes a bit hoarse?

But then I speak Spanish and I'm Dora the explorer's big sister🤦🏻‍♀️

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being bilingual is all fun and games until you're trying to write something in your native language but your brain keeps giving you scenes in your second language and you're like "this is NOT what I ordered"

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Had a nightmare in Portuguese and woke up agitated at 3am thinking in full French. Turned on the bed and saw I had a message. I spent the next 5 minutes staring at my cellphone trying to make sense of what seemed like nonsensical keymashing -until I realised I was trying to understand Spanish with an English focused brain. I just, what

truly, what

(native language is Spanish btw lmao)

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a question for my fellow bilinguals/multilinguals/polyglots:

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exactly! use she/her for me the same way u might use it for wrath (la colère divine), moon (la lune), and electricity (l'électricité).

i ended up liking how gendered french is solely because i can say that i want people to use he/him pronouns for me the same way they use it for angels, blood and blunts

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“✨french is so sexy✨”

“💗💗 french is the language of love 💗💗”

“🌸 the french language is so beautiful 🌸”

WRONG. Look me in the eyes. Regardez-moi dans les yeux. I’m so so serious right now. SPEAKING AS A FRANCOPHONE, French sounds like a dog hacking up a piece of plastic. Listen to me say « écureuil » and then tell me French is sexy pls I’m begging you

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People think being bilingual is having fluency in two languages, when the reality is that it’s the ability to speak two languages as broken as possible.

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Bonheur D’Occassion (1945) de Gabrielle Roy

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I know this is a rly basic idea, but it’s honestly so wild to me that the brain works like this. Like, I will be struggling for words in my second language, confused and frustrated, and then I listen to someone speak in that language for 10 mins and it’s as though it unlocks a vault in my mind and I’m back to being fluent. Like huH???

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God bilingual people are so cool. I'd love to be bilingual someday.

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omg no need for apologies!!

it's genuinely not confusing at all + this helps so much!! merci pour cette réponse si attentionnée + sérieuse ! :-)

de plus, love the side note of, "the trickiest part is when you turn 18 (you are legally an adult but you're basically a worm)" mdr

[eng]: okay this is a question for ppl who speak French as their native language! i speak it as a second language, right? but i’ve always been curious: what is the transition like when it comes to shifting from using “vous” to address a person to using “tu”?? is it like a friendship/intimacy upgrade?? does there need to be a conversation about it before hand (like “what are we?”).

[fr]: j’ai une question pour les personnes qui parlent français comme leur langue maternelle. je le parle comme ma deuxième langue, hein ? mais je suis toutefois curieuse : la transition de utilisant de « vous » à « tu » — comment fonctionne-elle? est-ce qu’il y’a presque comme une promotion de l’amitié ? Devez-vous avoir une conversation à l’avance (comme que sommes-nous ?) ?

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[eng]: okay this is a question for ppl who speak French as their native language! i speak it as a second language, right? but i’ve always been curious: what is the transition like when it comes to shifting from using “vous” to address a person to using “tu”?? is it like a friendship/intimacy upgrade?? does there need to be a conversation about it before hand (like “what are we?”).

[fr]: j’ai une question pour les personnes qui parlent français comme leur langue maternelle. je le parle comme ma deuxième langue, hein ? mais je suis toutefois curieuse : la transition de utilisant de « vous » à « tu » — comment fonctionne-t-elle? est-ce qu’il y’a presque comme une promotion de l’amitié ? Devez-vous avoir une conversation à l’avance (comme que sommes-nous ?) ?