#billingual

[kowaikaktus]

I recently started to write in English as well as in Polish and apparently, I'm Gloria.

I feel like in Polish, I have that particular, sharp speech that I don't have in English by this point. I mean, those stories are not badly written either, but they're not „mine” yet. 😅

[taroyippeee]

bro PLEASE tell me i am not the only one that wants to know another language specifically to curse people out and seem all cool and shit.

[obsess-over-ink-on-dead-trees]

okay so i have a very important question and it needs to be answered right. now.

is the fruit orange called the same word as the colour orange in other languages?

i have faith in my bilingual moots please this keeps me awake help

[juliesnickname]

If youre billingual one of the funniest things to do if youre bored is translate curses and swears into another language cause it usually gets way more formal than it really is because youre translating it word for word so its like hearing some 17th century french aristocrats cursing eachother out,its also a very interesting feeling seeing a phrase that youre technically familiar with but in a different language feels kinda weird like you recognize it but not really

Like "go to the bitch who birthed you" definetly sounds more fancy than "vai pra puta que ti pariu" though not as dramatic

[ayronaught]

Really hoping my afrikaans moots see this lol

Context: geography class in the UK, and i'm talking under my breath in afrikaans because the computer is slow

Ne: ek weet nie wat ek gesê het nie maar iets in afrikaans. Iets oor die rekenaar se ma se-

Girl: oh, what are you saying?

Me: huh? Oh, just talking to the computer in afrikaans

Girl: what's that?

Me: ... a language

Girl: huh

Me: from south africa

Girl: that's impossible

Me: excuse me?

Girl: they speak Swahili in africa

Me: i'm from south africa

Girl: which is africa. My grandmother went to Kenya and they spoke Swahili. You are speaking Swahili

Me: no, i'm definitely speaking Afrikaans

Girl: everyone knows that Swahili is the official language in Africa

Me:

Me:

Me:

Girl: oh! Is afrikaans a dialect of Swahili?

[theredcuyo]

"Pero desde entonces ya llovió" "Ya llovió de eso"

Is my favorite say in spanish, translates as "But it's rained since then" and it means something used to be but it has been a while since that ended, be it good or Bad

Examples

"Weren't you dating that guy?"

"It's rained since then, we're still friends tho"

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"Didn't you do gyminastics?"

"I got injured and it's rained since then"

[rose-vybe]

Vreau să te întorci la mine. Te-am așteptat atâta timp.

Valentin își trece o șuviță după ureche, oftând. Prin fereastra larg deschisă vine mirosul ploii de primăvară amestecat cu praful orașului, apoi zgomotul acela care nu încetează niciodată.

N-ar fi trebuit niciodată să-ți dau drumul, să te las să pleci. Dar te-am iubit prea mult și am vrut să trăiești. Să trăiești în lumină, să ai tot ce eu nu-ți puteam oferi.

A știut de la bun început că Milen îl va uita, timpul e milos cu muritorii, pentru ei orice durere e trecătoare, se șterge până la urmă. Și chiar dacă se întorc...

Tânărul brunet se grăbește spre intrarea blocului, prin ploaie, fără să se uite în jur, fără să știe că este privit.

Încă nu este timpul.

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I want you to come back to me. I've waited for you for so long.

Valentin brushes a strand behind his ear, sighing. Through the wide open window comes the smell of spring rain mixed with the dust of the city, then that noise that never stops.

I should never have let you go, let you leave. But I loved you too much and I wanted you to live. To live in the light, to have everything I couldn't give you.

He knew from the start that Milen would forget him, time is merciful to mortals, for them all pain is fleeting, it eventually fades. And even if they come back…

The young dark-haired man hurries towards the entrance of the block, through the rain, without looking around, unaware that he is being watched.

It is not yet time.

For @maudlin-scribbler

[logorrhea5mip]

I just returned from [country] where i mostly used English for a few days, which was both great practice and convinced me that my (very rarely used) spoken English was quite good already.

But I now have 2 problems, the first of which is that the first 3 seconds of spoken Serbian sounds like gibberish to me, since the brain is trying to find the English in the sounds, and failing miserably.

The second is that i have very quickly grown accustomed to being able to talk about foreigners (usually not mean stuff, but general gossip) right in front of them by using my secret language, which obviously failed with some parkgoers today.

I mean, the job of my brain is to adapt, but could it sometimes not?