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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Smarts. He has it.

Post image
57.9k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3.7k

u/-P-M-A- Sep 02 '24

This is a classic “sorry my English is bad” post. You are more articulate than most native English speakers.

1.3k

u/arzis_maxim Sep 02 '24

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

682

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!"

16

u/Luckcrisis Sep 02 '24

THIS! I am always impressed with folk that speak multiple languages. I worked with a gent who knew 4 languages AND 17 Spanish dialects. Which I can not fathom.