r/facepalm • u/GlitterMackenzie • Sep 02 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Smarts. He has it.

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u/arzis_maxim Sep 02 '24

When it is your second language, you feel more self-conscious about it

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u/FILTHBOT4000 Sep 02 '24

It gets worse when you know more than two languages, even moreso when they overlap. I've had numerous times when my brain freezes and goes "Was that the word for it in Italian... or Spanish...? Which one is it?" check "They're the same! FUCK!"

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u/arzis_maxim Sep 02 '24

I speak hindi, and honestly, my normal day to day speech is now 50% English, so much that I have to Google English words into hindi

Even for simple words like table I am like wtf was it in hindi again

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u/OverFjell Sep 02 '24

Most of the native Hindi speakers I knew mostly spoke Hinglish anyway. 😂 My old landlady was from Goa and she'd just switch from Hindi to English mid sentence when talking with other Indians

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u/GiuliaAquaTofanaToo Sep 02 '24

My best friend would do this when we were in middle school. She would switch to her native language, and I would lose the plot. What's funny is that it would take me a couple of seconds to figure it out. Like what? What are you saying?

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u/HanakusoDays Sep 02 '24

Tagalog speakers are notorious for this, on social media as much as face to face.