r/facepalm 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/H3J1e Sep 02 '24

I bet you switch languages mid thought too cause you can't find a world in one of them.