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tumblr post by seokoilua: it’s so wild to me that some people just speak english all the time… like they can’t switch it off to speak in a #real language when they need to
tumblr post by seokoilua: it’s so wild to me that some people just speak english all the time… like they can’t switch it off to speak in a #real language when they need to
I saw a video of a Spanish author, fluent in English, who said in an interview that he preferred writing in English for more or less these reasons.
Found it: https://youtu.be/NJYoqCDKoT4
Oh, that was cool. Spanish is my second language (after English) and sometimes I’m not sure if I’m having trouble finding the right words because I just don’t know the terms, or if it’s because the terms don’t exist at all in the language.
Tangentially, it’s true what they say about one’s personality being different when they speak in a different language. I wish I could be as quick-witted and punny in Spanish as I can be in English, but between the words I don’t know and the processing time it sometimes takes to communicate ideas, it’s a challenge.