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!"
I speak a fair amount of Spanish, enough so that when I hear Espanglish I just take it in stride. Was driving some Indian students around last week and chuckled to myself every time I heard a bit of Hinglish!
I'd never really eaten aubergine, maybe like twice in my life, until I lived in Spain for just 3 months and my housemates would always bring home berenjenas all the time. Even now, I can read the word 'aubergine' on a menu and in my heads little internal voice I hear the word 'berenjena'. It's just makes more sense to me, cos even though it wasn't a very long time that I was there, I probably ate/encountered 5000% more berenjenas/aubergines than I'd ever eaten in my entire life lol
Anyway, that was a super boring little tidbit of my brain,
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u/arzis_maxim Sep 02 '24
When it is your second language, you feel more self-conscious about it