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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
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It’s absolutely the difficulty I faced learning French as an American in the Midwest. My high school self thought it’d be more useful than Spanish because native English speakers who know French are more rare, but it also meant I never got immersion, even when I’d do my best to converse every chance I got.
Hell, even with Spanish, I regularly had people switch when I tried my Spanish, even when I went to Mexico 😤
Never did end up learning enough to get by before I was out of school and no longer had regular interactions with Spanish speaking people.
Thanks for pointing that out. I tend to miss things due to dyslexia/ADHD. Either it’s a correctly spelled word, but the wrong one so spellcheck doesn’t catch it or I start writing a sentence and change how I want to word it half way through but forget to go back and edit the first part.
French was actually spoken by a large number of Brits until English replaced it as the common language in Europe, after ww2. My grandparents were all conversationally fluent in french.