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| RogerK Triglot Groupie Austria Joined 4872 days ago 92 posts - 181 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian Studies: Portuguese | Message 17 of 20 12 February 2011 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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My wife (Austrian) and I speak German and although her English is excellent it feels uncomfortable for us to speak English when alone. I have a French friend and we have always spoken German even though his work language is English. I have an American associate and I like to speak English with him. He usually begins in German but I like to practice my English a little so I try to switch to English. We have friends in Australia with whom we also speak German exclusively.
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| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5267 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 18 of 20 13 February 2011 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Long ago, in a galaxy far away, when I actually had an English accent in English, I went to the US and I hung out a lot with European exchange students, one of whom was English, so I tended to mimick her accent even more than I natuarally do, and my (now) husband, at the time, thought I was British (we weren't going out yet, otherwise it would be weird). Then he saw me talking to a French student and he comes to me and says: You seem to speak French really well! I was extremely flattered, but still, it was strange. Now we speak English and sometimes a sort of cute Pidgin-Franglish we invented, but never actual French. I do have bilingual friends, though, with whomI speak French when alone but English when he's here. That makes for parties with a lot of code-switching, but it feels pretty natural as we're all really equally fluent in both. Sometimes he even leaves for a while, and we just forget to switch back. Edited by joanthemaid on 13 February 2011 at 2:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4831 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 19 of 20 14 February 2011 at 5:50am | IP Logged | ||
I didn't think this would pertain to me until I read Tally's post.
I am not used to speaking Spanish with my dad. He knows I know Spanish, but he won't speak it with me. I had to learn my Spanish in high school and at the university, but not from him. When I visit his house, we will be sitting at the kitchen table together with his Mexican wife, and he'll be the one doing the language switching. She'll be speaking Spanish. He'll be speaking both, and to him I'll be speaking English. I just can't talk Spanish to my dad. He's not open to it at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5055 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 20 of 20 18 February 2011 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes! This happened to me with an Israeli person I know. I heard her speaking English in a
video on Youtube and it was really weird. It was the first time I had ever heard her speak English at the time, and even though now I've spoken it with her in real life, I still can't watch it. It's really uncomfortable to watch for some reason because 99% of the time I only hear her speak Hebrew. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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