01.09.07
Being Bilingual
So I suppose by now I can be considered bilingual, though I still stutter and stammer my way through Italian on occasion. I noticed this weird little quirk when we were in Germany, an obviously non-Italian-speaking country. Whenever someone started speaking to me in German, Italian would come out. Many people in Germany speak English. But for some reason my brain heard German, switched into foreign language mode, and Italian came out. I had to force myself to use English.
Have any other bilingual people out there experienced something similar? And what language comes out when you’re trilingual?!
Josh Furnal said,
01.11.07 at 6:48 am
oh, brian…
Cory Isaac said,
01.11.07 at 3:16 pm
i know what you mean. but what happens when you’re just in Italy for a week and then instead of Danke, Grazie comes out. I’m not tri-lingual by any means… instead, i think Grazie is just prettier than Danke. luckily, my mother here(not actually my mother) is also fluent in Italian so she answers me with a laugh with Prego. it’s beautiful, it really is.
Naomi said,
01.23.07 at 5:24 pm
I know just enough of a couple languages to get myself into trouble. Sometimes, when I’m trying to speak Albanian, Spanish comes out. Though I’m better at Albanian, I think it is because I learned Spanish first. Also, it’s the same with unspoken languages. I have been experiencing confusion after having come back to American Sign Language.